First Lady Melania Trump recently expressed her admiration for her son, Barron, while also portraying her husband, President Donald Trump, as a “unifier” during a recent interview.

Melania is currently engaging with the media to promote her upcoming documentary, “Melania.” The film, set to premiere this Friday, provides an inside look at the 20 days leading up to the Trumps’ return to the White House in early 2025.

Highlighting the changes for Barron during this tenure, Melania noted that the young man is now a college sophomore, aged 19, and will celebrate his 20th birthday in March.

“I’m very proud of him; he’s an incredible young man,” she shared.

She further elaborated, “He understands now. He’s involved. He knows what’s going on in the world. He talks with his dad. He talks with me,” during her appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” on Wednesday evening.

Although Barron Trump remains largely shielded from the media spotlight and has not participated in media appearances, he made headlines by attending his first Trump rally in July 2024, playing a supportive 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.

First Lady urges unity following Alex Pretti shooting 

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.’

Inside Melania Trump’s ‘high-production’ life 

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.

Melania teases a new legislative push for 2026 

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 [adult content] 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. 

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Insider: Trump is becoming more reliant on wife Melania 

A reporter addressed the question to President Trump loudly and clearly from about 10ft away in the White HouseState Dining Room, ‘Do you plan to speak with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in the near future?’ 

The president, his neck craning forward, looked momentarily at a loss. He cocked his left ear toward the journalist. 

‘What… he… what…,’ Trump mumbled. 

Seeking assistance, the president turned to the adviser he trusts perhaps most of all, seated to his left, a steely-eyed eminence grise dressed all in black, who leaned in close and calmly whispered: ‘If you will speak with President Putin in the near future…’ The president was quickly back on track.

‘I will be, yeah,’ Trump harrumphed. 

‘I will be, we’re having very good dialogue.’ 

The moment, which took place at a banquet for Silicon Valley titans in September, was emblematic of the growing sway of the confidant. 

It was not JD Vance, and not Marco Rubio. Nor, was it Mark Zuckerberg, who was seated to Trump’s right. 

Instead, as he increasingly does, Trump had turned for guidance to his wife. 

In his second term, Melania, in her characteristically unobtrusive way, has quietly become Trump’s whisperer-in-chief. 

The president, it appears, relies on her more for emotional support these days – particularly with his daughter Ivanka absent from the White House – and they appear closer than ever, publicly calling each other ‘baby’ and ‘darling’.

He also turns to her as a sounding board for political advice. 

It leaves Melania in the formidable position of being able to influence geopolitical dynamics. 

Indeed, it seems she may have altered the course of two wars, with private interventions on Ukraine and Gaza. 

In European capitals, and in the Kremlin, those who read the White House runes are undoubtedly taking note. 

According to one source familiar with Trump’s inner circle at Mar-a-Lago, the growing role of the first lady is partly a consequence of Trump’s own advancing years. 

‘He’s 79, so none of this is a surprise.’ 

And, of course, he’s tired. Who wouldn’t be? He nods off. 

He needs Melania now more than ever,’ the source close to the Trump family said. 

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, published on New Year’s Day, President Trump vigorously defended his energy and health as ‘perfect.’

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Trump reveals ‘my wife hates when I do this’

Donald Trump revealed to a group of Republican lawmakers what his wife hates most about his speeches – and it’s not what comes out of his mouth. 

First Lady Melania Trump pleaded that the president stop imitating weight-lifting during his bit on transgender athletes because ‘it’s not presidential.’ 

She also thinks he shouldn’t dance on stage in what has become a popular spectacle, Trump said at the GOP retreat at the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, DCon Tuesday. 

Trump told Melania that his fans ‘really like’ his dancing, which is usually performed at the conclusion of his remarks to the hit Village People song Y.M.C.A., but that she replied: ‘They don’t like it, they’re just being nice to you.’

‘That’s not right, the place goes crazy,’ Trump said of his wife’s criticism of his arm-pumping dance. 

And it’s true that both his weight-lifting imitation and dancing are viewed as popular among his loyal base. 

During his wandering speech on Tuesday, Trump repeated his claim that Democrats are wrong to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports. 

But as the president began to mime lifting a barbell above his head, Trump interrupted himself to divulge how the first lady feels about it. 

‘My wife hates when I do this,’ Trump admitted. 

‘She’s a very classy person, right? She said, ‘It’s so unpresidential.’ I said, ‘But I did become president.’ 

‘She said, ‘Darling please, the weight-lifting is terrible.’ 

The revelation caused an uproar among Republican lawmakers gathered for their annual retreat on the five-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. 

More audience feedback ensued when Trump defied his wife’s request and went on with physically mocking how the female athlete was unable to complete the lift while the transgender competitor easily lifted even more weight and broke the world record. 

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