--- title: Trump Tower: Department of Defense Wants to Lease Space description: The Department of Defense are seeking to rent space at Trump Tower, separate from spaced used by the President's Secret Service detail canonical: https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/ author: Zamira Rahim article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T12:33:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:12:00.405Z article:section: Politics og:title: The Pentagon Wants to Rent Space in Trump Tower og:description: Where Melania and Barron Trump still live og:url: https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt974c5e4d3afb0273/6988b9368fd2ee8be9355b2a/gettyimages-696812555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4426 og:image:height: 2490 og:image:alt: Trump Tower Entrance og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Pentagon Wants to Rent Space in Trump Tower twitter:description: Where Melania and Barron Trump still live twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt974c5e4d3afb0273/6988b9368fd2ee8be9355b2a/gettyimages-696812555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Pentagon Wants to Rent Space in Trump Tower > Sponsored content. 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A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. J.B. Brindle said the department was trying “to acquire a limited amount of leased space” in the building, the Washington _Post_ reports. The tower is still home to First Lady Melania Trump and the couple’s ten year old son Barron. The space is separate from where President Trump’s Secret Service detail is headquartered. Although parallel arrangements were made at President Obama’s Chicago home, the Pentagon’s move is likely to raise even more questions about the conflicts between President Trump’s past role as a businessman and his new one as Commander in Chief. [ CNN estimated](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/military-to-rent-space-trump-tower/) that the leasing one floor of Trump Tower could cost approximately $1.5 million. \[[_Washington_ _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/department-of-defense-looks-to-rent-space-in-trump-tower/2017/02/07/6dec7252-edb0-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.f01f3853db31)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/"},"headline":"The Pentagon Wants to Rent Space in Trump Tower","datePublished":"2017-02-08T12:33:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:12:00.405Z","description":"Where Melania and Barron Trump still live","url":"https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/","keywords":["Department of Defense","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt974c5e4d3afb0273/6988b9368fd2ee8be9355b2a/gettyimages-696812555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zamira Rahim","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt974c5e4d3afb0273/6988b9368fd2ee8be9355b2a/gettyimages-696812555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Tower Entrance","caption":"Trump Tower Entrance","creditText":"Epics—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/department-of-defense/","name":"Department of Defense"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4663587/donald-trump-pentagon-trump-tower/","name":"The Pentagon Wants to Rent Space in Trump Tower"}}]}] ```