Who are Donald Trump's children? Meet the new American dynasty and and their spouses
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It’s official: Donald Trump is returning to the White House after pulling off a staggering political comeback to defeat Democrat candidate Vice President Kamala Harris at the polls. This time around his wife Melania says she’s packed and ready to move into the Washington D.C. address, while the couple’s only child, 18-year-old Barron, is attending university in New York at Stern School of Business.
Though over the years Trump’s brood, which includes four children from his previous relationships with Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, have largely stayed close to their father and courted the limelight working with him in real estate, by appearing in his reality shows or by acting as advisors to him in his previous role as 45th president of the US.
From his turbulent relationship with Don Jr, to Ivanka Trump’s exile from New York, here is everything you need to know about the Trump dynasty. At 47, Donald Trump Jr is the eldest son of the president-elect, and one of three children he shares with his first wife Ivana (who passed away in 2022). Widely referred to as Don Jr, he is also a friend of JD Vance and is credited with helping convince his father to pick the Ohio Senator as his running mate.
Despite being his father’s namesake and close ally now, the pair have had a turbulent relationship in the past. In a 2017 memoir, Ivana Trump recalled her then-husband’s hesitation to name a child after him: “You can’t do that! What if he’s a loser?” Their pair’s relationship would become fractured when as a 12-year-old, Don Jr. reportedly didn’t speak to his namesake for a year. This was after his parents’ split in 1989: their marriage came to an abrupt end as a result of Ivana learning that Donald had been having an affair with model Marla Maples.
