Melania Trump and son Barron finally move into the White House ... five months after inauguration

First family: Donald, Melania and Barron Trump walk across the White House lawn
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David Gardner12 June 2017

Melania Trump finally moved into the White House today five months after her husband took office.

The First Lady left the couple’s luxurious Trump Tower apartment in New York and joined President Trump with their 11-year-old son, Barron at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home,” Mrs Trump wrote early today, adding the hashtag #MovingDay.

She also tweeted a photo of the Washington Monument as seen from the White House.

Moving day: President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and their son, Barron Trump, arrived in Marine One
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The reunited family arrived on the South Lawn after spending the weekend together in New Jersey at the Trump National Golf Club.

Barron was seen wearing a T-shirt with ‘The Expert’ written on it as his parents held hands. He will be the first boy to live in the White House since 1963, when John F Kennedy Jr was three years old.

Mrs Trump arrived just in time for the president’s 71st birthday on Wednesday - and to rebuff gossip about their long-distance marriage. She had remained behind in New York following her husband’s inauguration so Barron could finish the term at his school.

The First Lady’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, who now both live in the US but return to their home country of Slovenia every year, joined the Trumps as they walked toward the White House.

“It’s official! @FLOTUS & Barron have made the move to DC! #WelcomeHome,” Mrs Trump’s communications director, tweeted this morning.

But some things never change: Mr Trump spent the first few hours with his wife back by his side sending out a string of tweets about TV speculation over him being impeached.

First family: Donald Trump and his family disembark from Air Force One
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It came after perhaps the most testing week for Mr Trump in his tumultuous presidency, with former FBI Director James Comey testifying on Capitol Hill how the former reality star tried to lean on him to drop inquiries into alleged ties between some of his senior aides and Russia.

Mr Comey also accused Mr Trump of putting him in a difficult position by demanding his loyalty.

A former leading prosecutor in New York sparked fresh controversy last night by claiming he was fired by Mr Trump because he refused to take an “inappropriate” phone call from the president.

New home: Barron steps down from Marine One
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Preet Bharara said he took two phone calls from Mr Trump but then refused to speak with the president on a third call because he feared it was jeopardising his independence as a criminal investigator, he told ABC News.

“The number of times that President Obama called me in seven and a half years was zero,” he said.

“The number of times I would have been expected to be called by the president of the United States would be zero because there has to be some kind of arm’s-length relationship given the jurisdiction that various people had.”

Last night two big sponsors pulled out of New York’s Public Theatre over a production of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ that substitutes President Trump for the assassinated Roman leader.

The Shakespeare in the Park play tells the story of the leader assassinated by Roman senators over fears that he is becoming too tyrannical, but swaps Caesar and his wife, Calpurnia, with Donald and Melania Trump lookalikes.

Delta Airlines and Bank of America both withdrew their support and Mr Trump’s son, Donald Jr., tweeted: “I wonder how much of this ‘art’ is funded by taxpayers? Serious question, when does ‘art’ become political speech & does that change things?”

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