It’s customary for any First Family to move into the White House on Inauguration Day, but in 2017, Melania Trump deviated from the practice and took her sweet time doing so. It was initially assumed that she opted to remain in New York to allow her son, Barron, to complete his school year, but sources dished at the time that the former First Lady wanted to hold on to her old routine away from all the political whirlwind a while longer. “Melania wants to stay in New York while her son goes to school,” the insider shared with People. “I don’t know if she will ever live away from New York full time, especially with her son in school there. She loves her home in Manhattan and her independent life.”
What’s more, there were also speculations that her delayed relocation was partly to take a step back from the chaotic election campaign and renegotiate her prenuptial agreement, which was initially not in her favor. In the book titled “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump,” journalist Mary Jordan wrote that Melania used her time away from Donald “to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron,'” per The Washington Post. And apparently, it’s not for her sake, but for her son’s. “She wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children,” Jordan claimed.
