--- title: Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House description: Months after President Donald Trump entered the White House, First Lady Melania Trump and the couple's son Barron have moved to Washington canonical: https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-12T07:28:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:05:59.815Z article:section: Politics og:title: Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House og:description: Nearly five month's after the President's inauguration og:url: https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21edbed109207e98/6988d12f97cdff1a3d6b121a/gettyimages-694983590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: First Family Arrives At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House twitter:description: Nearly five month's after the President's inauguration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21edbed109207e98/6988d12f97cdff1a3d6b121a/gettyimages-694983590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House > Sponsored content. 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Chris Kleponis—Pool/Getty Images by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Jun 12, 2017 7:28 AM UTC Almost five months after President Donald Trump moved into the White House upon his inauguration, First Lady Melania Trump and the couple’s 11-year-old son Barron have finally made the move to Washington. The First Lady had opted to stay in the couple’s New York City apartment in Trump Tower until Barron finished up the school year. When the term resumes, Barron will [attend](http://time.com/4779047/barron-trump-st-andrews-private-school/) St. Andrews Episcopal School in the capital. The White House’s newest occupants arrived Sunday aboard the Marine One helicopter, NBC News [reports](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-lady-melania-trump-son-barron-11-move-white-house-n770836). Barron will reportedly be the first young boy to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1963. “Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home!” the First Lady said in a tweet late Sunday. Barron Trump’s move alongside his mother was confirmed by Mrs. Trump’s communications director Stephanie Grisham in a later tweet. > [](https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/874061401995608065) > [](https://twitter.com/StephGrisham45/status/874061783853608965) The security arrangement for Melania and Barron Trump’s remote residence was estimated to have cost the New York City government [between $127,000 and $145,000 per day](http://time.com/4679823/donald-trump-tower-new-york-protection-costs/) when they were the only Trump family members in town. \[[NBC](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-lady-melania-trump-son-barron-11-move-white-house-n770836)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/"},"headline":"Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House","datePublished":"2017-06-12T07:28:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:05:59.815Z","description":"The White House's newest occupants arrived Sunday aboard the Marine One helicopter","url":"https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/","keywords":["White House","First Lady","Melania Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21edbed109207e98/6988d12f97cdff1a3d6b121a/gettyimages-694983590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21edbed109207e98/6988d12f97cdff1a3d6b121a/gettyimages-694983590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"First Family Arrives At The White House","caption":"First Family Arrives At The White House","creditText":"Chris Kleponis—Pool/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/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4814312/melania-barron-trump-white-house/","name":"Melania and Barron Trump Have Moved into the White House"}}]}] ```