--- title: Donald Trump Kisses His Baby Grandson description: Donald Trump recently played the doting grandfather while posing with his eighth grandchild during a photoshoot for TIME's July 25 issue. canonical: https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-14T10:30:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:36.649Z og:title: Here's Donald Trump With His New Grandson og:description: The presumptive Republican nominee poses with his family's newest addition og:url: https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Donald Trump With His New Grandson twitter:description: The presumptive Republican nominee poses with his family's newest addition twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Donald Trump With His New Grandson  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 14, 2016 10:30 AM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 14, 2016 10:30 AM UTC Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump recently welcomed TIME’s cameras into his office at Trump Tower. There he played the doting grandfather while posing with his eighth grandchild— 3-month-old Theodore James—during a photoshoot for [TIME’s July 25 issue](http://time.com/trump-convention), kissing the now 3-month-old boy on the cheek while glancing up at the camera. The moment was captured by [Harry Benson, an award-winning Scottish photographer who has chronicled Trump for nearly 40 years](http://time.com/4404431/harry-benson-donald-trump/).  Theodore is the third child for [34-year-old Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner](http://time.com/trump-kids), who have both been close advisers to Donald and regular fixtures on the campaign trail. In fact, in the weeks leading up to his grandson’s March 27 birth, the GOP frontrunner was prone to commenting on his daughter’s pregnancy, notably mentioning the impending arrival of a “[beautiful, Jewish baby](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/28/its-a-boy-for-ivanka-trump-donalds-eighth-grandchild/)” during a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Conference. The last time we visited the candidate at his Trump Tower office, he had a [slightly different visitor](http://time.com/4141783/time-person-of-the-year-runner-up-donald-trump-eagle-gif/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/"},"headline":"Here's Donald Trump With His New Grandson","datePublished":"2016-07-14T10:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:36.649Z","description":"The presumptive Republican nominee poses with his family's newest addition","url":"https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/","keywords":["Newsfeed","2016 Election topic","politics","2016 presidential election","Donald Trump","2016 presidential campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4405204/donald-trump-kiss-baby-grandson/","name":"Here's Donald Trump With His New Grandson"}}]}] ```