Donald Trump married his third wife, Melania Knauss, in January 2005.
Less than a year later, she was pregnant with their first child together.
And his reaction was … at first he needed to take it in," Melania toldPeoplein 2006.
But I was surprised by the speed of it.
It happened very quickly."
The child in question came to be named Barron.
Now that he’s officially an adult, however, his role seems to have changed.
In July 2024, Barron made his campaign rally debut in Doral, Florida.
During his speech, Donald suggested the public would be seeing a lot more of his son.
Of course, this wasn’t the first time Donald’s spoken about his youngest child.
Here’s what else the former president has said about Barron Trump.
In particular, Donald confessed that he was letting his wife tend to all diaper-related duties.
“She loves doing it!
I would love to change him!
But Melania probably wouldn’t let me.
I’d just do it wrong.”
Still, Donald claimed that he was involved in raising his newborn son in different ways.
In true businessman fashion, though, he confessed, “I read the papers.”
(And hey, ifDonald has a few felony convictions that affect his businesses, who’s counting?)
(The family business, of course, being business.)
What’s a little more surprising is just how early Donald claimed his son showed an entrepreneurial spirit.
He added, “Most importantly, hopefully he’s smart because smart is really the ingredient.
So Barron, good luck, you have a long way to go.”
“It’s a little scary for Barron.
He thinks he is going to be taken away from friends,” Donald toldPeoplein 2015.
That June, Melania shared a photo of the Washington Monument from the White House onX, formerly Twitter.
She captioned it, “Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home!
More on that below.
What’s more, he seemed to suggest the event was rigged in Biden’s favor.
“Barron Trump would do great on that show, cause he’s a young child.
They asked him questions that a child could answer, any child.”
Barron was sick with COVID at the time, and Donald had an answer for that too.
“Speaking of Barron Trump,” he said, “fully recovered in like, record time.”
Now that he’s officially an adult, his father has been more vocal about involving him in politics.
In an interview onWHPT, Donald Trump shared, “He does like politics.
So anyway, he’s a good guy.”
That tracks with what anonymous sources told theDaily Mail.
“Trump rates the boys and sees their input as an asset,” the source said.
That’s presumably also how Donald heard about comedian and podcaster Theo Von.
“He knows you very well … that’s where it is nowadays, right?”
Because he’s a very young guy, and he’s graduating from high school this year …
I think that’s great.
I think it’s very interesting, too, but he’s pretty young, I will say.”
Several days after the interview, Melania Trump released a statement about her son’s participation in the convention.
So much for that.
“He’s a smart one,” Trump revealed.
“He’s really been a great student.”
By September, Donald revealed Barron’s university plans in an interview with theDaily Mail.
“He was accepted to a lot of colleges,” Donald boasted.
“We liked NYU.
I’ve known NYU for a long time, but it’s one of the highest rated …
I went to Wharton, and that was certainly one that we were considering.
We didn’t do that.
We went for Stern.”
Donald also grappled with the notion of his youngest kid entering his next phase of life.
“He’s just passed into something beyond child-dom.”
… My hand was covered with blood.
Just absolutely blood all over the place.
I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack."
