Melania & Barron Trump finally moved into the White House on Monday

I don’t envy Barron Trump’s life for several reasons. For one, he’s in the middle of that awkward stage of puberty where all of a sudden he’s all arms and legs. Two, he has to go through that awkward stage on a global stage. Barron and his mom Melania have finally moved into the White House. The news was confirmed with tweets and photos from the White House. Barron and Melania spent the weekend at a Trump-owned golf club, then they moved their sh-t into the White House on Monday, apparently.

Barron’s school year is over, and he will be transferring to another school in the fall. Most people thought he would end up going to Sidwell Friends School, which is the private school of choice for many president’s kids over the years. But Melania has apparently chosen St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland instead. It’s a private Episcopal school.

Can I just say? I love that Barron Trump is dressed like a kid in these photos. I’ve heard stories about how Donald Trump treated his older sons, like they were always supposed to wear a jacket and tie around him, but I think things are a lot looser for Barron. Like, Melania lets him be a kid rather than a plutocrat-in-training. I wouldn’t mind owning Barron’s vintage-style “The Expert” t-shirt. It’s from J. Crew and it’s already sold out, alas!

Photos courtesy of Getty.

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  1. SusanneToo says:

    Apparently, the donald read my tweet to him where I asked if the poor kid was ever allowed to wear tee shirts and jeans, anything other than those damn suits.

    Wonder what they threatened or bribed melania with to get the handholding pics. Bet trump’s tiny paws are sweaty.

    • Esmom says:

      I know, I as shocked at the jeans and tee. He looks so cute and normal. And the t-shirt saying almost seems like shade to Bigly to me — even an 11 year old kid probably knows more about how our government works than our effing POTUS and the other grown up kids do.

    • AnnaKist says:

      The first thing I looked for in the first pic was hand holding, but all I saw was Melania’s pursed lips, like she wanted to tell him to shut the fudge up. In the last pic, the hands say “united front”, but the faces seem to say the complete opposite. This is gonna be good. I have booze and nibblies, you guys!

      • Belle Epoch says:

        I enlarged the picture to see their faces. Holy sh*t! Voldemort looks FURIOUS about this photo op showing the loving family.

    • Eliseridge says:

      I saw the clip on TV and at one point Barron (alone) turned around to see where is grandparents were – they were just coming out the heli. So, maybe he won’t be the cad that his father is.

  2. astrid says:

    Poor kid. Awkward teenage years in the white house with The Donald as your father

    • BearcatLawyer says:

      I am sure Chelsea Clinton can give him some tips.

      • Alex says:

        She could or Sasha but tradition is out the window remember?
        Normally the WH kids would pass down advice. The Bush girls had a sleepover with Malia and Sasha their first week in the WH. Because that’s a cute tradition…but nothing is normal and the poor kid is going to adjust alone.

        But then I remember how much it cost my city to have them stay in NYC and I get mad again

      • Esmom says:

        I’d like to imagine those previous WH kids secretly giving advice to Barron, that would be sweet.

      • Amy Tennant says:

        I bet they wrote him a letter. I know Chelsea wrote a letter to the Bush twins, and they wrote one to Sasha and Malia.

      • jwoolman says:

        Nowadays they can text. Help is just a few finger taps away…. Too bad there aren’t any former boys in the group of recent Presidents’ children. Girls and boys really grow up in such different cultures even though side by side. It would help to have a male perspective.

    • Connell says:

      I feel sorry for him. He has a 70 year old father he cannot relate to, that he rarely has a chance to talk with. Barron must be 6 feet (?) tall at age 11. So he’ll be past 6′ 6″ easily as an adult. It’s hard to be coordinated when you are that tall, for most people. My husband was like that.

      • KB says:

        Melania is not quite 5’10, Trump is not quite 6’1 (although they both lie about that!) I’d guess Barron is 5’8-9 tops.

      • Llamas says:

        Yeah I was gonna say that he has shot up in the past 6 months. He is going to be very tall.

      • CynicalAnn says:

        Or he could be one of those kids who go through puberty earlier and then stop growing at 14. In any case I feel sorry for that poor child. Between the fishbowl and that narcissistic father, and the crap he’s going to hear about his dad at this new school filled with DC kids who’s families are not going to be Trump fans-ugh.

      • JenB says:

        I don’t think he’s 6′ yet but I do think he’ll at least be 6’3″ when he’s done growing.

    • jwoolman says:

      Especially at this time. His dad may be booted out before school starts.

  3. minx says:

    Her body language says she couldn’t care less about her husband.

    • Aims says:

      She look like she’s in morning.

    • Elosaurus says:

      Yeah, you can’t be a happy person around someone who is so miserable all the time just like Trump. So no wonder she looks like this. But still, she chose this life and continues to live like this. I guess all the money and ”glamour” matter more to her than a loving partner. I hope she doesn’t make Barron her emotional guardian or whatever, since Trump is unable to process simple emotion and empathy. Because that could really mess with Barron’s head when your parent makes you responsible for their emotional well being. I don’t know, maybe it’s too much coffee in my system so I could be rambling. Carry on!

    • CynicalAnn says:

      It also says she’s pissed it’s really happened and she’s had to move there-and mad that her kid’s life is going to be upended. She really doesn’t look happy to be there.

    • AnneC says:

      I wonder if she tells Barron to not make the president of the US his role model? I sure would if my two sons were still young. Let’s see, POTUS bragged about sexual assault, called most Mexicans rapists, cruelly mocked a disabled person, bullied and lied about our first African American president, is a selfish narcissist and uses social media to bully and intimidate others. America weeps.

  4. Ankhel says:

    I wonder how many Drumpfs will live there in the end? It’s like a swarm of locusts. All that’s missing are some of Melania’s relatives.

    • BearcatLawyer says:

      Her parents will be there too. And unlike Michelle Obama’s mother, I doubt they will pay rent. Emperor Baby Fists will make some excuse as to why they must live rent-free in the WH.

      • Felicia says:

        I’m not sure why either party would nitpick about that. It’s probably 1000 times better to have the grandparents around for the kids when the President and the First Lady (whoever they are) are off doing official visits abroad and/or official functions night after night. As a parent, I’d rather my child be with their grandparents than a nanny.

        I don’t know which side started that, but the whole thing is kind of petty. You’d pretty much have to have a security cleared and vetted babysitter on call full-time and I imagine that would be way more expensive (and on the tax-payer’s dime) than moving the grandparents in. How did the Clintons and Dubya deal with “who looks after the school-aged kid(s) when we travel”? Does anyone know?

    • SusanneToo says:

      Nope, it seems her parents are moving in to “help care for Barron.” Or, more likely, insulate melania from Turd-in-Chief.

      • minx says:

        Oh, brother! All the grief Michelle Obama’s mother got when she moved in to the WH….!

      • SusanneToo says:

        Well, we know why Mrs. Robinson and all the Obamas got grief. I don’t need to drop breadcrumbs. Now, The Deplorables will all be “oh, that’s so sweet, how dare anyone complain.”

      • Christin says:

        If this situation were anyone else, imagine the cries about ‘did they legally immigrate?’ She’s never revealed her own docs, so how did the parents get here? Crickets…

      • jwoolman says:

        It’s a good idea that his grandparents will be there. They’ve been living in Trump Tower so he has probably had a lot of contact with them. He’s going to need people he can talk to without having it front page news the next morning. And he can talk to them in Slovenian in case Donald has him bugged….

      • Shazza says:

        Now thta I know Melania’s father is JUST 2 years older than Cheetolini, I really have to side-eye them.

      • Megan says:

        I think it’s good that his grandparents will be there. He will need all the loving support he can get. The parents of the kids at St Andrews aren’t Trump voters.

    • B n A fn says:

      Her mother and father moved in with her.

      Btw, they are trying to pass the health care bill without anyone seeing it or any Democratic contribution. They are trying to cut 24 million from coverage. Ryan and McConnell are the devil spawn. I hope those who voted for #45 live in agony every day knowing they are responsible for what they have done to this country.

      • CariBean says:

        That’s the problem. They don’t care “because it has no effect on” them. That is a quote from my inlaws and husband who voted for him. Since it has no effect on them, it’s all golden. 😑

      • Alex says:

        Sadly it WILL have an effect on most deplorables. Those in coal country, middle America, poor rural will be hit hard.
        And my sympathy will be focused on the other people that voted with basic decency and sense

      • JohnnyT says:

        Yes why is no one up in arms about her Communist Father moving in the White House? The hypocrisy is outstanding! Can you IMAGINE if this were any other First Lady’s family?

      • Megnificent says:

        @B N A FN – it makes me so mad that they are trying to sneak this godawful healthcare[less] bill through while America’s attention is averted. I know what you mean about hoping that the people who voted for him feel the pain of what they’ve done.

        I had the most disturbing conversation about all of this with my father a few weeks ago. He said, as serious as he could be, “he is hands down the worst president this country has ever had, and I am *still* glad that he beat Hillary. She is *terrible.*” I thought about this for less than the amount of time it took me to cast my vote for Hillary last November, and I said, “oh wow, I didn’t realize that you actually hated America.”

        He wasn’t impressed. Neither was I.

  5. RBC says:

    Melania looks unhappy in that top photo and in the bottom photo donald looks furious and seems to be glaring at someone.
    It will be interesting to see how much time Melania actually spends in Washington this summer. I see a lot of trips out of town for her and Barron. She will not want herself or Barron to spend too much time around the shitstorm that is swirling around her husband and seems to be getting worse.

  6. B n A fn says:

    I’ve NEVER seen any outward sign of affection between #45 and his son Barron. Once I saw 45 put his hand on Barron shoulder and Barron rolled his shoulder to get his hand off of him. Am I wrong?, has anyone seen him showned affection to Barron, just wondering.

    • minx says:

      He pawed Ivanka onstage at the GOP convention. 😆 That’s the only time I’ve seen “affection” towards any of his kids.

    • SusanneToo says:

      Nope, you’re not wrong. Plastic Princess is the only one he is (inappropriately)”hands on” with.

    • RBC says:

      I noticed that Tiffany did the same thing when her father tried to hug her. It was at one of the debates. The only child he seems to show affection for is Ivanka

    • LAK says:

      Ivana, and many other people, have said he has never shown interest in any of his kids until they were adults and working for him.

      Beyond that, they were all raised by their mothers + maternal grandparents whilst he popped in and out of their lives. He expected them to be perfect or at the very least present as perfect because they reflected on him.

      Ivanka got with the programme as a little kid. By her own account, her reaction to her father divorcing her mother was never to take HIM for granted. And by her own words, it’s clear she started flattering and pandering to him from that moment onwards. She made sure to keep in his eye line every week, if not everyday and by all accounts played to his narcissism. That’s why she’s the favourite. The others never put in the time or effort.

  7. Honey Bear says:

    Cute kid

  8. Digital Unicorn (aka Betti) says:

    He looks like a Trump mini me. I think Melania protects him from his father if the stories of how he treated his older sons are true. Tiffany and Barron are the only 2 Trumps who will escape the Presidency fall out when that sh!t hits the fan. Tiffany has gone from being desperate to be involved to being very quiet.

    • holly hobby says:

      Whatever happens I think Barron will pull through this and have a normal life. He’s not crazy like the other 3. I think Melania is the reason why he’ll be decent. That’s a lot of hope but I want that crazy strain in the family to die.

    • Kitten says:

      Really? I see so much of Melania in him. I think he’s really cute, actually.

      • Elisa the I. says:

        +1, he is a really good-looking kid and looks nothing like his dad.

      • Emily says:

        Agree – he doesn’t have the overcrowded jawline/teeth situation going on that the other Trump kids have. He’s quite delicate looking in a good way. Definitely going to be tall when he’s done growing.

      • CynicalAnn says:

        I agree. Luckily for him he looks more like her.

  9. Canadian Becks says:

    Her hand sure engulfs his hand, no? You can’t even see his fingers because hers just, again, engulfs his.

  10. Rice says:

    The only person I feel any sympathy for in this First Grifter Family is Barron.

    • Amy Tennant says:

      He never asked for any of this. I know he has lived a life of extreme privilege, and we know who his parents are, but we can always hope he’ll turn out better.

      I feel for Tiffany too. She always seems pushed to the side.

  11. Green Is Good says:

    American taxpayers now footing the bill for Melania’s parents? How many grifters can we afford?

    • Beth says:

      Republican supporters used to bitch about Michelle Obamas mom living at the WH and saying they were mooching of the taxpayers. The Obama’s actually payed for her rent though. The billionaire Trump better do the same

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        Trump will find ways for Americans to not only pay their rent but somehow reimburse him too.

    • jwoolman says:

      They have a young child. It’s very appropriate to have people they trust to be with him. Family is better than paid staff because family connections are forever. Having the grandparents there also gives his parents a lot of freedom to be at night events and traveling, if they can ever get Trump off his duff to go anywhere. I hope they stay until we can convince Donald to resign. Or put him in jail. I’m game for either.

      The grandparents could hardly have the kid bouncing back and forth between their home and his, under the circumstances. It makes great sense for them to live there as much as possible.

      I really don’t care if they pay rent or not. It would be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to other White House expenses. Probably more money is spent servicing Donald’s Diet Coke-on-demand habit, since he seems incapable of just getting up and walking to a small cooler and must use a special button on his desk to order a real person to bring him one.

      • HannahF says:

        To me the rent thing is another “Do as I say not as I do” situation. The Obamas got significant grief for having Michelle’s mother live with them in spite of the fact Mrs. Robinson paid rent. I think it was a wise move for the families of 44 and 45 have the grandparents around as a grounding influence for the kids.

  12. grabbyhands says:

    Man, that kid looks like he’s shot up a good couple of feet since Inauguration. I really want to hope that this kid will buck the trend of being a bad human being like the rest of his children, but the deck is stacked against him.

    While I don’t feel sorry for Melania, it is uncomfortable looking at this picture (and having seen this footage) and knowing he is basically strong arming her to hold hands for the cameras. Her body language is so stiff and unhappy. I imagine he has got an iron grip on her hand and is refusing to let go.

    • Erinn says:

      I really really hope for Barron too. Even if he’s 50% better than the others- it would be a huge difference. I really do feel sorry for kids of politicians – I know they benefit from a lot of things, but I can’t imagine having to deal with political fallout – and the realization that not every decision your parents made was in the best interest of everyone. I’m sure as a child they’d assume that their parent is just doing whatever they can to help people because that’s all they hear. Having to hit the teenage years and get more exposure must be genuinely awful.

      • SusanneToo says:

        Maybe Barron will luck out. Looking at trump’s florid face and the 60+ pounds he’s gained, he could drop at any time. Here’s hoping.

      • Esmom says:

        Yes, Erinn. And it’s not only that he’s the son of a politician. Being the son of Trump is its own unique misfortune.

        I’ve told this story here once before but I had a friend who when she was a teen discovered her dad was a monster — he was molesting two little kids they were fostering. She and her two pre-teen siblings, against the wishes of their mom, went to authorities and had him arrested and eventually imprisoned. Maybe Barron will eventually realize his father is not a decent human being and distance himself accordingly.

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        “Eventually” has probably arrived in terms of Barron’s realization because Trump is not a nice person up close and personal, and kids grasp these things early. Barron could also take his cues from his mother’s behavior. Sad.

  13. Magnoliarose says:

    Tangerine didn’t want his last two children and he doesn’t even bother to hide it. He wasn’t even involved with his first set. Only Complicity Barbie. Barron is Melania’s son and I am sure they had a lot of conversations about being strong and he won’t even be around before arriving. She had to leave her long time bf to have to pretend to not be repulsed by Tangerine on a world stage. I am sure she needed therapy and rest after the world tour but now their freedom is over. They look like two people on their way to the gallows.

    • RBC says:

      Longtime boyfriend?!!!! This is news to me. Details please!!!

    • Kiki says:

      Wait a minute…. She left a long term relationship for Donald J. Trump? This is news to me and I want details.

      Now I feel no sympathy for Melania Trump.

      • TeamAwesome says:

        I think this is referring to the security officer/manager that works at the Tiffany’s in Dump Tower, who is rumored to be her lovah.

      • Magnoliarose says:

        Yep. That is the one. It is funny because his followers kept saying he would sue the papers for saying such lies. He loves to sue but he left this one alone.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      She could leave. It’s hard to think Trump would fight for (shared) custody of his son. If she’s staying for the money, her son will figure that out, too. I just don’t see the argument for her being forced into this, and she supported Trump through birtherism and the pussy-grabbing tape. She may be unhappy, but she’s no angel.

      • Imqrious2 says:

        You KNOW that for optics alone, he’d fight for custody, and then leave the boy alone with a nanny. He’s the type to do a “scorched earth” policy in regard to Melania publicly divorcing him (humiliating him, in his mind). He’d have no thought of what it’d do to his son; only “winning” in his mind. A$$wipe that he is.

      • Amy Tennant says:

        She might be afraid to leave. I don’t mean just staying because of money. Granted, I have nothing to base this on and am just projecting, but I know what it’s like to be afraid to leave a powerful man, and mine isn’t the POTUS with a lot of shady connections

      • Who ARE these people? says:

        Maybe. Psychological abuse is a strong possibility here. And women shouldn’t have to be angelic to be defended.

        Still,my sympathy extends more to all his other, less visible victims.

      • Magnoliarose says:

        I am not a fan of hers by any means. I have zero respect for gold diggers. I don’t care that she was a low grade nude model or whatever but she lived her life in a lane with murky figures so she knew good and well what he was when she met him. By that time he was known as a sleaze. Marla Maples was a gold digger and stalked him while he was married to get his attention. She got burned too.
        My only sympathy is that she didn’t marry a politician and never expected this level of scrutiny. There were rumors they were on the verge of divorce until this so that may be why she looks so pissed off all the time.

    • isabelle says:

      Which is good for them. Bet they will turn out better than the others because he hasn’t influenced them as much and stays out of their lives.

  14. Escondista says:

    The boy prince! Always like seeing Barron and rooting for him to have a different life than the rest of the kids.

  15. Barrett says:

    I’m 5’11 my favorite cousin is 6’6. I find the awkward stage and all arms and legs endearing.
    It’s my family’s normal but probably off to others w/o the genes.

    • Esmom says:

      I do, too! My high school boyfriend was a gangly 6’4 and it was a huge part of the attraction!

      For both my kids, their awkward puberty stage was to get pudgy for a while until their height increased and their weight redistributed again.

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        Ha, my hubby went through that stage too. There’s that one school photo where he looks like a chubby chipmunk. Then he got gangly again. As our pediatrician said, kids grow ‘out’ first, then ‘up,’ then out, then up.

      • Amy Tennant says:

        I’m trying to tell my son that. He’s 13 and thinks he’s “fat,” but he’s at that stage where a growth spurt will take care of it all on its own. (But I got a bonus out of it: he’s willing to take a walk with me every evening for my exercise and his, and I can even get him to talk a little while we do it)!

      • Tata says:

        My male friends all went through a stage of being pudgy before they grew six or seven inches! It was really cute. But one male friend developed an ED because his doctor told him he was an overweight teen and headed toward health problems, and I wonder why that doctor didn’t know some kids (girls too!) can grow out then up? (I guess because some kids grow up without a pudgy stage? Idk)

    • Louisa says:

      My 12 year old is going through it now, and it’s cute. He’s so tall and skinny – just legs, arms and huge feet. He’s like a great dane puppy.

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        They don’t know where to put anything and feel/get clumsy. My husband never quite outgrew that sense, though he settled at normal-tall, not super-tall.

      • isabelle says:

        He is a goodlooking kid for sure. Gangly arms and all.

    • Magnoliarose says:

      I was teased mercilessly for my very long gangly knobbly period. Poor boy has to do it on the world stage. I hope he makes it. Apparently, Tiffany is a kind person so maybe he has a chance.

  16. khaveman says:

    Welcome to the White House — too bad you couldn’t have come sooner and saved the taxpayers $20-plus million for security in your Manhattan home during the delay. SMH

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      Yeah, I wonder how the Glam Room is coming along.

    • jwoolman says:

      And how many of Trump’s golfing weekends is that equivalent to?

      Really the problem wasn’t the expense, it was not having the Feds pay for it and being stupid about disrupting the locals. Those are fixable problems, and we better fix them because one of these days, we’ll have a President who has a minor child at least partially in the custody of an ex-spouse. So having to deal with separate households will happen. Actually, it already did happen, except they are informally separated and she still has to come when he calls to avoid custody ugliness.

      • khaveman says:

        I suspect the same “agreement” due to a plausible blind item I read. And yes, a modern outlook would want a plan in case of shared custody. I still think the child could have had tutors in the WH – heck get the young man two or three – instead of the NYC bill so he could finish school. I guarantee the bill would be less. It was obscene to spend that.

  17. Maria F. says:

    I am surprised to see this day come and I am pretty sure that it also has to do with a lot of the bad press he is getting.

    His fans, so conservative and family oriented, might have had a hard time believing the ‘ he needs to finish school ‘ for much longer.

    I am curious to see if now the entire family flies to Florida each weekend.

  18. SusanneToo says:

    Now melania needs to take Barron to the African-American museum, the Holocaust museum, the many branches of the Smithsonian, to show him there’s a world outside trumpville.

    • third ginger says:

      Sounds wonderful!! One of my friends and I did those trips with our kids when they were Barron’s age. Of course, we did not have the African-American museum then.

  19. Rapunzel says:

    Barron is kind of adorable when not dressed like his American psycho half-brothers. I’m
    Interested that Melania is sending him to an Episcopal school. Isn’t she Catholic?

    • Amy Tennant says:

      I think so. For a lot of the Catholics I know who marry outside the Church, Episcopal is a good compromise.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      Maybe it has greater continuity in its approach to his NYC school.

    • Tiffany says:

      St. Andrews offers better options for Barron. They are better at the one on one attention that he needs.

      • Snappyfish says:

        I agree! Sidwell is known for its high pressure rigorous academics. I thought he might go to The Lab school of DC at least up until HS but St. Andy is a good choice

    • HannahF says:

      Chelsea Clinton, both Obama girls, at least one of the Nixon daughters and many other children of politicians have gone/still go to Sidwell Friends–which is a Quaker school.

    • jwoolman says:

      High-church Episcopal is Catholic without the Pope… The liturgy is very similar and there is an unbroken line for ordination so in a pinch, Catholics can receive sacraments from
      their priests. Converting from
      Episcopalian priest to Roman Catholic priest isn’t too hard, which is how the Catholics got a few married priests (from already ordained converts).

  20. Giddy says:

    In that first picture where Bigly is whispering in Melania’s ear, I’m sure that the deplorables think he is saying “Thank God you’re here, I missed you so much.” What he is actually saying is “HOLD MY HAND AND SMILE DAMMIT!”

    • me43 says:

      I bet quite a bit of his base has been fooled to believe that they are deeply in love and have a real marriage.

      • Christin says:

        Third time’s the charm, right?

      • ORIGINAL T.C. says:

        I think we have all learned the “family values” base is just a BS branding game. Look at how many GOP leaders are on their 3rd marriages. Look how much crap Trump has said and done-including stealing charity money-and they don’t care. As long as he is there representing the face of White Male privilege, getting rid of abortion rights and cutting taxes they are happy.

        GOP are just full of ‘ish

    • wolfpup says:

      I bet that there is big money involved for holding his hand. She is a model and poses with a smile naturally. I am glad that her parents will be living there for a bit of protection.

  21. Kate says:

    Hopefully, Minute Maid Mussolini will be to busy tweeting himself into impeachment to pay much attention to Barron. That’s the best thing that could happen to that boy.

  22. Fiona says:

    It feels like Sansa Stark leaving winterfell for King’s Landing……….
    Poor Barron.

  23. MaybeTomorrow says:

    Barron is a cute kid. His growth spurt is right on target, I’m sure he’s self conscious of it all on the public stage and you can’t blame him.

    What happened to all the naysayers who lit up the board with a zillion “they’ll never move in summer” posts? (Birds chirping)

    I actually believed the rationale and believed they would. But I also hypothesize she may have used it as a re negotiation point on the pre nup, haha.

  24. Heather says:

    He’s a cute kid, I feel sorry for him that he has that pompous jerk as a father.

    • Tate says:

      He is a cute kid. I am no fan of Melania but she clearly loves her son. Hopefully she has more of an influence on him than her creep of a husband.

  25. Molly says:

    I feel bad for Barron…and then I see he’s wearing those New Balance, white supremacy shoes, and I hate them all again. Ivanka did the same thing with her kids during the campaign. You expect the world to believe richy-rich Trumps just happen to already own $45 shoes sold at JCPenney?

    Putting under-aged children in front of the cameras wearing specific shoes as a wink to the deplorables is disgusting.

    • MellyMel says:

      New Balance are actually back “in style” if the fashion bloggers on Instagram are any indication. I don’t think him wearing these has anything to do with the deplorables, but I see your point.

    • Zut alors says:

      Wait, what?! New Balance is a white supremacy brand? I love their shoes and I can’t believe I knew nothing about this.

      • Molly says:

        Technically, it was more the white supremacists claimed New Balance rather than New Balance claiming white supremacists. New Balance VP made a vague claim in November that “we feel things are going to move in the right direction” under Trump. The left freaked out that they were endorsing Trump and began to boycott. (Although official statements from the company denied such things.) The Daily Stormer, a website rife with anti-Semitic, anti-gay hate speech and white supremacist language, derided the complaints and championed New Balance as “the official shoes of white people,” encouraging readers to buy them.
        [Complete story: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/business/statement-on-trump-puts-new-balance-shoe-company-in-cross-hairs.html?_r=0%5D

        I firmly believe that the Trumps wear New Balance as a dog whistle to people like the readers of the Daily Stormer,

      • Kitten says:

        I’m super-grossed out by this. I had no idea.

      • Erinn says:

        According to New Balance the guys Trump comments were in reference to the TPP. They also said “New Balance has said previously that it “publicly supported the trade positions of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump prior to election day that focused on American manufacturing job creation and we continue to support them today.””

        If they fit your feet well, and are comfortable – I wouldn’t ditch the brand. I mean, I have a pair sitting under my desk right now that I should be using a lot more. I’m not about to go out and pick New Balance over other brands UNLESS they genuinely fit best. If I can find another shoe that does the job equally as well, I’ll get the other one.

        Ultimately- do whatever you feel comfortable with. I sent off some angry emails to Nike during Serena William’s comments on a rape case. I also purposely went past a section of Under Armour clothing the other day because I was annoyed with their statements surrounding Trump. But as someone with chronic pain, I also am not going to put the condition of my feet on the back-burner completely – and different brands can have very different fit.

    • Who ARE these people? says:

      One of the few sneakers that comes in wide widths, too.

    • Plibersek says:

      I like New Balance because they’re the best runners for people with wider feet. As a rule I never wear Nike. I boycotted them in the 90s when they came under fire for exploiting their workers and I’ve stuck to it.

  26. BJ says:

    I wonder if she will sleep in the same bedroom with him.

  27. teacakes says:

    Poor kid. I hope he beats the odds and manages to grow into a decent human being unlike his siblings, but maybe there’s only a slim chance of that.

  28. KiddVicious says:

    I like her out fit and handbag. Dammit. I hate that about me.

  29. Chetta B. says:

    Not a people-friendly First Lady you have there, dark sunglasses on and she looks afraid to be out in public, like she’s trying to hide or something. Reminds me of that scene in Sex & and the City where Samantha is spying on Richard with her dark wig and sunglasses, lol.

  30. Amelie says:

    Have any previous White House kids ever written a memoir about living in the White House? In any case I would read Barron’s book should he ever choose to write one as an adult. I think out of all the Trump kids, he will be the one to stop drinking the koolaid. He just seems so very over it in every picture I’ve ever seen of him. I wish him all the luck in the world, the poor kid is going to need it.

    • jwoolman says:

      Tiffany might be over it also. Ivanka is apparently the one who encouraged her to do some stuff with them in the campaign. At that point, nobody thought the guy would win. It was just for entertainment value. For all we know, Tiffany voted for Hillary and is horrified that the old man is in the White House.

  31. Plibersek says:

    I saw that photo of Barron yesterday and couldn’t believe how much taller he’s become in the past six months. He’s gonna be a giant.

  32. wood dragon says:

    Wonder how the kid is going to do there? He used to have a whole floor to himself in NY.

  33. Ozogirl says:

    I’ve never seen a more miserable first family…

  34. Bella bella says:

    Barron is walking as far away as possible from Trump.

  35. Jessica says:

    Not sure why people think Barron won’t turn out exactly like his brothers or that Tiffany isn’t exactly like Ivanka (maybe smarter). They’re all Trump kids and are variations of their father.

    Sasha and Malia were clear copies of their parents in looks and personality; Malia going through her wild phase like Dad in college and Sasha being hyper-focused on school and her friends like mom.

    Apple rarely falls far from the tree.

  36. Malak says:

    I know that a picture takes a split second, so I hope the above picture WAS taken during that split second and the boy usually does look a person he shakes hands with in the eye.