January 20th is Presidential Inauguration Day, but will Barron Trump be by his father’s side?
President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office on Monday, which also happens to fall on the Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday — a federal holiday. It is also the day that the Trump family officially moves into the White House among all the festivities.
During Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, his youngest son Barron, then 10, was in attendance, surrounded by all his siblings and family. Now he is a young man, towering at 6’9″ and a college freshman at New York University Stern.
The 18-year old is the youngest of Trump’s five children and only child with wife Melania Trump.
A lot has changed for Barron since his father’s first presidency, including his address, his school schedule and his new found independence in adulthood.
Barron attended one of his father’s rallies back in early July of 2024, but soon after he withdrew from the public spotlight. He was not at the rally in Pennsylvania where his father was shot or any others thereafter. And he was notably absent during his father’s big acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention.
By the first week of September, it was announced that Barron was attending NYU Stern College of Business and that he moved back into the Manhattan penthouse at Trump Towers, where he was raised as a child.
Will Barron attend his father’s Inauguration Day?
While the young Barron did attend his father’s first inauguration day in 2017, his situation has now changed and it is not known whether he will make the big day. He is now living in New York and inauguration day is on Monday, the day before spring semester officially starts back for classes.
The inauguration ceremony takes place with the swearing-in at noon at the U.S. Capital on Jan. 20, followed by the presidential parade and many other festivities scheduled for that day and evening.
Melania Trump, in a recent interview with Ainsley Earhardt, said of her son, “I feel that children we have them feel they are like 18, 19 years old. We teach them, we guide them. And then we give them the wings to fly. And I always respect Barron’s yes and no and what he likes to do, where he would like to be.”
Maria Francis is a Pennsylvania-based reporter with the Mid-Atlantic Connect Team.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Will Barron Trump attend his father’s inauguration?