First Lady Melania Trump expressed her admiration for her son, Barron, and portrayed President Donald Trump as a ‘unifier’ during a recent interview.

Melania is engaging with the media as she promotes her upcoming documentary, “Melania,” which chronicles the 20 days leading up to the Trumps’ return to the White House in early 2025.

She highlighted the changes for Barron during their current White House tenure, pointing out that he is now a college sophomore, age 19, turning 20 in March.

“I’m extremely proud of him; he’s a remarkable young man,” she shared on Fox News Channel’s The Five. “He’s aware and involved, understanding global affairs, and he engages in conversations with both his father and me.”

While Barron Trump maintains a low media profile, he made a rare public appearance at his first Trump rally in July 2024, contributing significantly behind the scenes.

“He played an active role in the campaign,” Melania observed.

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.

First Lady Melania Trump insisted on Fox News Channel’s The Five that President Donald Trump is a ‘unifier,’ adding it’s the ‘opposition’ in the United States that’s the problem 

First Lady Melania Trump gushed over Barron Trump (left), explaining what a pivotal role he played in his father’s 2024 presidential campaign and labeled President Donald Trump (center right) as a ‘unifier,’ pushing back on criticism 

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.

First Lady Melania Trump (third from right) joined the Fox News Channel broadcast The Five to promote her new documentary film, Melania, which showcases her life just before moving back into the White House on January 20, 2025 

First Lady Melania Trump poses at the New York Stock Exchange, where she rang the bell Wednesday morning as part of her promotion for the new Melania documentary 

‘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.