Melania Trump gushes over son Barron as she pushes back at critics and brands husband a ‘unifier’

First Lady Melania Trump gushed about her son Barron and insisted that her husband, President Donald Trump, was a ‘unifier’ in a new interview.

The first lady is doing the media rounds ahead of the release on Friday of her documentary, Melania, which charts the 20 days before the Trumps moved back into the White House in early 2025. 

She noted how this time in the White House is much different for Barron, pointing out that the college sophomore is 19 and will turn 20 in March.

‘I’m very proud of him, and he’s an incredible young man. He understands now. He’s involved. He knows what’s going on in the world. He talks with his dad. He talks with me,’ she said Wednesday evening during an in-studio appearance on Fox News Channel’s The Five. 

Barron Trump remains guarded by his family, never doing media appearances, but he attended his first Trump rally in July 2024 and played a role behind the scenes.

‘He was very involved in the campaign,’ the first lady noted. 

She touted that Barron was very influential to his father.  

‘He gave him all of the ideas, who he needs to talk to, all of these YouTubers and, you know, podcasts. So he was really a smart mind behind it,’ she said.

While most of the interview questions were lighthearted, Jessica Tarlov, the lone liberal on the panel, noted how in the trailer, the president is asked what he wants to accomplish in his second term, and he says, ‘peacemaker.’ 

The first lady added that she wanted to see him become a ‘unifier’ as well.
 But with protests rampant around the country due to the president’s mass deportation policy, which were heightened after Saturday’s shooting by Customs and Border Patrol officers of American citizen Alex Pretti, Tarlov added that ‘there’s no question that the country needs a lot of unifying at this moment.’

‘Yes, it does,’ the first lady responded. ‘But I think he’s [a] unifier.’ 

‘He’s a unifier, not just here in the United States, but around the world. He has stopped many wars, and, as well, here in the United States, it’s a lot of opposition and that’s the problem, right?’ she continued.

‘So the people not agreeing with everything that – what he does,’ she added. ‘They just need to come on the same page and see that he wants to make America only safe and better.’

The movie, the first lady explained, will show the swirl of activity around her as she prepares to move back into the White House and as she hires ‘East Wing’ staff, which remains the name of her official office despite the building being demolished by her husband.

‘We have so many people around, have Secret Service, and it’s a big production whatever you do. So one take, and you go,’ Melania said, explaining that it documented her days from morning until evening. 

Amazon paid a whopping $40 million for rights to the film, which is being released in theaters first only despite the company’s ownership of its Prime streaming service.

‘I think in every scene they will see how I work, who I am, how I communicate with people and they will know me a little bit more,’ she said. ‘I know they know I’m a very private person and a very selective person, what I do, what I don’t do, when I talk, when I don’t talk and that’s my choice.’ 

‘And nobody is in charge of me and I’m not in charge of anybody else,’ she continued.

Melania wouldn’t divulge whether there are parts of the film she wished had ended up on the cutting room floor.

‘I will leave a scoop out,’ she said.

The first lady also wasn’t ready to reveal a new piece of legislation she has teased.

Last year, she lobbied for passage of the Take It Down Act, a revenge porn bill that includes the criminalization of AI-generated images.

‘Not yet,’ she told the panel. ‘I’m working and I think I will have a lot of support like I had with the previous one.’ 

She also said she planned to continue her work reuniting Ukrainian children with their families who were abducted by the Russians amid the war in Ukraine. 

On the lighter side, the first lady revealed that she was a morning person and while ‘some days it’s not appropriate,’ she doesn’t mind the president’s trademark YMCA dance. 

She also praised her son Barron’s work on his father’s presidential campaign, referencing how he was the one who suggested the president do appearances with YouTubers and podcasters. 

‘So he was a really smart mind behind it,’ she said of the 19-year-old youngest Trump son. 

During the interview, she also batted down a suggestion that her husband would run for a third term, which is prohibited by the Constitution, and didn’t commit to there being a Melania movie sequel. 

‘Oh, interesting,’ she said when asked about a Melania part two.