Barron Trump: Meet the first 'first boy' since JFK Jr

To his mother he is her “little Donald” – a boy she describes as “very strong-minded, very special, independent and opinionated.”

Barron Trump on election night with his parents CREDIT: REUTERS

But to the United States he will soon be the “first boy.”

Barron Trump, 10, will become the first boy since John F Kennedy Jr to live in the White House.

Born the year after Donald Trump’s marriage to Melania, the youngest Trump’s name appears to have emerged from a preferred pseudonym of Mr Trump. For three decades, until the 1990s, "John Miller" and "John Barron", two public relations men, loved to boast to journalists of Mr Trump's success with business and women.

Barron has spent his life living in Trump Tower, where he has a whole floor to himself – close to his grandparents. He speaks Slovenian with them and with his mother. 

“He has his playroom and he has his pictures and art and all of his stuff,” she said, in a 2006 interview with Parenting magazine.

“And since he has his own floor, he can also put those things on his living room and on his own walls.” 

She said he was obsessed with golf and helicopters – unsurprising, seeing as his father owns a $7 million one.

“Sometimes we play together and build cities or airports using Magna Tiles and Legos. He builds big projects,” said his mother, noting proudly how he takes after his father.

He also takes after his mother – she lavishes him with her own-brand caviar moisturizer, and ensures that he is always dressed in suit and tie.

He currently attends the private Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, in Manhattan, but could end up a pupil at Sidwell Friends – a school which has for the past 35 years educated all the children of presidents. Others, however, speculate that he could actually remain in New York with his grandparents and stay at the same school

By  Harriet Alexander, new york