Melania Trump will not move into The White House

President-elect, Donald Trump’s wife, future first lady Melania Trump, and their son, Barron, will not be moving to the White House in January 2017.

 

In a report from NY Times, after Trump takes oath of office in January 20, 2017. Mrs. Trump and son Barron will be staying at Trump Tower in New York for at least another six months so Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school. Melania will travel to the White House as needed, but her primary focus is on Barron. A source from Trump’s transition team told NY Times, “Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign, The campaign has been difficult for Barron, and she is really hoping to keep disruption to a minimum.” Trump said he would move to the White House.

 

Many critics say  it’s unclear if Melania and Barron will move to the White House at the end of the school year. The decision to remain in their Midtown home will increase the security presence around Trump Tower, an effort that will involve both Secret Service and the NYPD, an expert familiar with high-level security according to NY Post.

Jim Reese, a former Delta Force commander and president of TigerSwan states that, Barron and Melania will each have an unknown number of Secret Service agents assigned to them, including a driver and armored vehicle to take Barron to school, An advance team of agents will swoop down on the school each morning to make sure it’s safe, he added.

Not many people reacted to this news, but Mr. Trump said they would join him “very soon, after Barron’s finished with school.” This isn’t the first time a first lady moved into the white house right away or at all. According to USA Today, Anna Harrison, wife of 9th President William Henry Harrison, never moved in because her husband, died a month after taking office in 1841. Jane Pierce, wife of 14th President Franklin Pierce, delayed her move to the White House a few weeks because her their son had died in a train wreck on the family’s way to Washington for inauguration in 1853.