Mela­nia Trump: Bar­ron brought ‘suc­cess’ to his father’s 2024 elec­tion

Dur­ing her first post-elec­tion inter­view, Mela­nia Trump con­ced­ed that her son, who is a fresh­man at New York Uni­ver­si­ty, will nev­er have a “nor­mal” col­lege expe­ri­ence, con­sid­er­ing who his father is and his Secret Ser­vice detail.

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“His expe­ri­ence at col­lege, it’s very dif­fer­ent than any oth­er kid,” she told Fox News on Fri­day. “I’m very proud of how he’s han­dling, he’s very strong, and he knows that he’s in a dif­fer­ent posi­tion than oth­er chil­dren. I just say, ‘Make your dreams come true. This is your road, this is your life, and make sure that you lis­ten your­self and your likes and dis­likes.’”

Mela­nia Trump sim­i­lar­ly expressed pride in how her son, 18, helped his father’s cam­paign appeal to young men before last month’s elec­tion by reach­ing out to and sit­ting down with cer­tain pod­casts and inter­net per­son­al­i­ties, includ­ing Adin Ross, a pop­u­lar gamer and stream­er.

“I’m very proud of him about his knowl­edge, even about pol­i­tics, and giv­ing an advice to his father,” Mela­nia Trump said. “He brought in so many young peo­ple. He knows his gen­er­a­tion because nowa­days the young gen­er­a­tion, they don’t sit in front of TV any­more. They are all on the tablets. Their phones and all of these pod­casts and stream­ers.”

She added: “He was very vocal, and he gave advice to his father and was incred­i­ble how he brought in a suc­cess because he knew exact­ly who he, his father, needs to con­tact and to talk to.”

With six weeks before Don­ald Trump’s inau­gu­ra­tion, Mela­nia Trump com­pared the 2024 tran­si­tion to its “chal­leng­ing” 2016 coun­ter­part, dur­ing which she said there was not “much access” to the White House. The pres­i­dent-elect did not invite Pres­i­dent Joe Biden to the White House in 2020.

“This time, it is very dif­fer­ent because we already know where we are going and we have all of the plans from before. So we don’t need to go back in,” Mela­nia Trump said. “My team is in con­tact with the White House, so that’s a plus, but we have all what we need. So this is the sec­ond time. So it’s noth­ing new.”

The incom­ing first lady also said she was “very, very busy” estab­lish­ing her tran­si­tion team and office in addi­tion to “orga­niz­ing the res­i­dence and pack­ing.”

“I know what you need to estab­lish, you know what kind of peo­ple you need to hire that, to be in your office, so that’s what I’m doing now,” she said. “I’m inter­view­ing peo­ple for my office. I’m estab­lish­ing every­thing what it needs so we could start on day one, every­body is in, and we start work­ing.”

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Mela­nia Trump simul­ta­ne­ous­ly reflect­ed on her husband’s win, includ­ing being the first Repub­li­can to win the pop­u­lar vote since for­mer Pres­i­dent George W. Bush in 2004, say­ing the “ener­gy is dif­fer­ent.”

“I see that the coun­try and the peo­ple who real­ly sup­port a team and they sup­port him, his focus to make this coun­try great again, and his patri­o­tism, it’s incred­i­ble and his hard work as well,” she said. “I hope the coun­try will be unit­ed, and that’s what we all hope for, and, you know, I’m always against vio­lence. I think noth­ing is accom­plished with the vio­lence.”