Practically each member of President Donald Trump’s household circle was in attendance for the ceremonies and occasions round his inauguration as forty seventh president of the USA, and that features his in-laws.
In fact, his spouse Melania, kids Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany and Barron, and his grandchildren had been all seen all through Monday’s occasions. But in addition seen had been some relations who is probably not as well-known, specifically Trump’s father-in-law, Viktor Knavs.
Knavs could possibly be seen through the inauguration and on the presidential parade later within the day subsequent to Barron Trump, his grandson.
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Barron Trump (L) and his grandfather Viktor Knavs attend the inaugural parade inside Capital One Enviornment, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Trump’s household dynamic
As Trump returns to the White Home, his household circle appears a bit completely different than it did when he first arrived in 2017.
His youngest son, Barron, was in fifth grade again then. He is now a university freshman who towers over his 6-foot-plus dad. Granddaughter Kai, who was 9 in 2017, is now an aspiring social media influencer and spectacular golfer. Grandson Joseph, who posed in Trump’s lap with a Lego mannequin of the White Home final time, is 11 now.
Probably the most outstanding relations in Trump’s political sphere, daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared, are in Florida this time round after working in his first administration.
Relations can present presidents with a prepared supply of ethical and sounding-board assist, companionship and even aid from the world’s issues. To not point out creating complications for the president at instances, too.
“Family can do things that other people can’t, and they can be trusted in a way that other people also can’t,” mentioned Tevi Troy, a former George W. Bush administration official and creator of a number of books in regards to the presidency. “Everyone needs someone they can talk to late at night when you let your hair down, so to speak.”
The president-elect has 5 kids — three of whom are married — from his marriages to Ivana Trump, Marla Maples and present spouse Melania Trump. He has 10 grandkids, with an eleventh on the best way.
This is a take a look at Trump’s household circle:
Melania Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. is 46 years previous.
Trump Jr.’s affect has grown to the purpose that he lobbied his father to decide on shut good friend JD Vance for vp. He additionally pushed for former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president-elect’s picks for director of nationwide intelligence and well being and human providers, respectively. Trump Jr. helps run the household actual property enterprise and is an honorary chairman of Trump’s transition. He has a podcast and has mentioned his function is to forestall “bad actors” from moving into the administration. He not too long ago flew on his father’s airplane to Greenland; the president-elect has expressed a want to take management of the mineral-rich Danish territory.
Trump Jr. has 5 kids — or “smurfs,” as he generally refers to them — along with his former spouse, Vanessa Trump. They’re Kai Madison, 17; Donald John III, 15; Tristan Milos, 13; Spencer Frederick, 12; and Chloe Sophia Trump, 10.
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump is now 43 years previous.
As Trump equipped for the 2024 run, Ivanka introduced that she liked and supported him however was getting out of politics to concentrate on her husband and their three children. She did, nonetheless, be part of her father and different members of the family on election evening and when he rang the bell on the New York Inventory Change in early December after Time journal named him Particular person of the 12 months. She advised “The Skinny Confidential” podcast that this time round she simply needed to “show up for him as a daughter” and be there to observe a film or a sports activities recreation.
Ivanka and her husband have three kids: Arabella Rose, 13; Joseph Frederick, 11; and Theodore James Kushner, 8.
Eric Trump
Eric Trump is now 41 years previous.
Eric can be an honorary chair of the transition and an in depth adviser to his father. However he continues to focus extra on operating the household enterprise. In September, he and his brother began a crypto platform referred to as World Liberty Monetary, and their father helped launch it in an interview on the X social media platform.”
Eric and his spouse, Lara, have two kids: Eric Luke, 7, and Carolina Dorothy Trump, 5.
Tiffany Trump
Tiffany Trump is now 31 years previous.
She was extra current within the 2024 marketing campaign however nonetheless largely avoids the highlight. Tiffany, 31, and her husband, Michael Boulos, predict their first baby this yr. Boulos is a businessman who traveled with Trump within the ultimate stretch of the marketing campaign. His father is Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who helped Trump with the influential Arab American neighborhood within the swing state of Michigan. Trump has named Massad Boulos to be a senior adviser on Arab and Center Jap affairs.
Barron Trump
How previous is Barron Trump now?
The president’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is now 18 years previous and a freshman at New York College.
Barron is a freshman New York College enterprise scholar. His mother and father and Trump marketing campaign officers credit score him for recommending podcasts fashionable with younger males that the president-elect appeared on through the marketing campaign. Barron can have a bed room within the White Home, Melania Trump mentioned on “Fox & Friends.”
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: (L-R) Viktor Knavs, Barron Trump and Melania Trump attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes workplace for his second time period because the forty seventh president of the USA. (Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
Donald Trump mentioned Barron had helped introduce him to individuals he had by no means heard of earlier than.
His mom had advised “Fox & Friends” final yr that “I’m very proud of him, about his knowledge, even about politics and giving an advice to his father. He brought in so many young people. He knows his generation.”
Lara Trump
As Trump revved up his 2024 marketing campaign, he put in his daughter-in-law as co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee, the place she was a TV-ready advocate overseeing fundraising, voter outreach and the occasion’s “election integrity” initiative. She stepped down from the RNC after the election and eliminated her title from consideration as a potential successor to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Trump’s alternative for secretary of state.
Lara Trump is enthusiastic about health and has her personal line of activewear. She additionally has explored a aspect enterprise as a singer and has launched some songs. Daughter Carolina is known as after her residence state.
Jared Kushner
Kushner, 44, has stepped out of the political highlight — however his father may quickly step in. Trump introduced after the election that he intends to appoint Charles Kushner, an actual property developer, to be U.S. ambassador to France. The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after he pleaded responsible years earlier to tax evasion and making unlawful marketing campaign contributions.
Kai Trump
Donald Trump’s 17-year-old granddaughter is an aspiring social media influencer. Her behind-the-scenes video from election evening garnered 3.7 million views on YouTube. Different posts associated to her grandfather have been watched tens of millions extra instances on TikTok. Kai delivered her first public speech on the Republican conference and is an avid golfer who generally performs along with her grandfather.
“If I’m not on his team, he’ll try to get inside of my head, and he’s always surprised that I don’t let him get to me,” she said at the convention. “But I have to remind him, I’m a Trump, too.”
Arabella Kushner
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s daughter was 6 when her grandfather confirmed China’s Xi Jinping a video of her, in a standard Chinese language costume, belting out Chinese language-language songs.
“It’s very good, right? She’s very smart,” Trump mentioned. Xi responded that Arabella was her grandfather’s “little angel” and a “messenger of China-U.S. relations.”
Now Arabella is 13 and enjoys singing, taking part in the piano, horseback driving and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, in accordance with a social media submit from her mom.
