Donald Trump confirms Melania Trump, son Barron will move to White House after end of school year

NEW YORK (WTXF/AP) - President-elect Donald Trump says he's moving to the White House soon, but his wife and young son will follow him at the end of the school year.

Trump spoke Sunday to reporters gathered at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during a day of private meetings with potential administration officials. He said he will live in the White House and wife Melania Trump and 10-year-old son Barron will move "right after he finishes school."

Trump lives with his wife and son in the penthouse apartment at Trump Tower in New York City. Barron attends a private school in the city.

The New York Post reported Sunday that Trump's wife and son would not immediately be moving with him to Washington.

Trump is not the first recent president to move to the White House with school age children. When President Barack Obama took office, daughters Sasha and Malia were 10 and 7. When Bill Clinton came to Washington, Chelsea Clinton was 12. All three White House kids moved during the school year and attended the Sidwell Friends, a private school in northwest Washington.

Trump has continued to spend most of his time in Trump Tower since winning the presidential election, which has prompted a massive security effort around the luxury building with bomb-sniffing dogs, security checkpoints and police barricades.

Previously, it was not clear if his wife and 10-year-old son will be immediately joining him full-time.

The New York Post reported exclusively, "Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump's inauguration in January."

The paper quoted sources that said the two will be "staying put at the family's glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school."

Other sources said Melania will travel to the White House as needed, and she may move with Barron for the next school year.

Also, the decision to remain in their Midtown home will increase the Secret Service and New York Police Department presence around Trump Tower.

Sunday, Trump spokespersn Jason Miller responded to the report, saying there is "obviously a sensitivity" about pulling Trump's son Barron out of school in the middle of the academic year.