Love me, love my kids. That’s a guiding principle of the Donald Trump presidency, one of the most nepotistic in U.S. political history.
Trump values loyalty above all and who better than his offspring to show how it’s done. His three older children work for him, as do their partners.
Given The Donald’s fond memories of his Scottish-born mother — a big fan of royalty, apparently — it’s inevitable that his state visit would be a family outing that even includes young Tiffany, the so-called ‘invisible Trump’.
So who’s who in the President’s very personal entourage?
Meet the Trumps: (From left) Donald Jr, wife Melania, President Donald, Ivanka, Eric and the lesser-spotted Tiffany at the Trump International Hotel in Washington
Stylishly aloof, Melania's a mystery
Melania Trump, 49
First Lady Melania Trump walking from her airplane to her motorcade wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase 'I Really Don't Care. Do U?' on the back last year
Family ranking: Donald Trump’s third wife had a hesitant start as First Lady. It’s been reported that she never encouraged her husband to run for office and burst into tears on election night 2016 when he won, a claim she has fiercely denied.
She then remained in New York for six months, insisting their son Barron finished his school year. Even now, she’s rarely seen at her husband’s side while insiders say she barely sees him.
Image: Glamorous and mysterious. Nobody knows what she thinks of her husband and his presidency, his hard line on immigration (she’s one herself) and his alleged philandering. Interestingly, she has chosen to campaign against child cyber-bullying — though her husband is arguably one of the biggest Twitter tormentors of them all.
Monosyllabic in public, the Slovenian-born ex-model hopefully hasn’t seen Tracey Ullman’s BBC comedy series, which portrays her as the robotic ‘Melaniabot’.
Mother figure: Hugely protective of Barron, her only child,who is 13. He’s expected to stay in Washington DC.
Queen of protocol: Aides say her great White House interest is interior decoration and the placement at state dinners. She’s taken a special interest in protocol on this visit, especially over what presents to give, and the flowers, menu and seating plan when the Trumps entertain Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Winfield House, the U.S. ambassador’s Regent’s Park residence.
Wardrobe: A renowned clothes horse, Mrs Trump will have planned her wardrobe with just as much precision as her place settings, so watch out for at least one British-designed frock.
Be prepared for surprises, too, as the First Lady is also famous for the odd fashion faux-pas, such as the Manolo Blahnik stilettos she wore en route to visit hurricane victims in Texas in 2017.
It’ll be a bad news for the ‘special relationship’ if she wears her notorious Parka coat with ‘I really don’t care. Do U?’ scrawled on it which she donned to visit illegal immigrants on the Mexican border.
Ambitious daddy's girl who's made enemies
Ivanka Trump, 37
The 'Unofficial First Daughter' Ivanka Trump (pictured with husband Jared Kushner) will be one of the four Trump children tagging along for the state visit
Position: America’s unofficial ‘First Daughter’ by Trump’s first wife Ivana, the unflappable ‘Ice Princess’ is the absolute apple of her father’s eye. She has ‘the best figure’ in his opinion and he once said he’d consider dating her — if, erm, she wasn’t his daughter. She’d also be ‘very, very hard to beat’ if she ran for President. He’d like to have made her head of the World Bank or U.S. ambassador to the UN were it not for the public rows.
Family ranking: Stratospheric. She and her husband Jared Kushner (both pictured left), 38, are senior White House advisers, with the President’s ear.
Image: ‘Javanka’, as the couple are known, were once seen by Left-wingers as the acceptable face of Project Trump, glamorous, sophisticated and liberal-minded New Yorkers counselling moderation. The gloss has since come off. An insider described them as a ‘toxic mix of arrogance and ignorance’, with an insatiable lust for power and the source of some of the President’s most controversial policies.
Work life: White House colleages reportedly can’t stand them, allegedly dubbing Jared the ‘Secretary of Everything’ thanks to his insistence on having a finger in each pie, and Ivanka ‘Habi’, meaning ‘Home of All Bad Ideas’.
Home life: The couple live in a Washington DC mansion with their three photogenic children — Arabella, Joseph and Theodore. Despite occasional whispers the couple want to return to New York, they’ve stuck it out.
Money: Lots of it. She’s a successful ex-fashion entrepreneur and he’s a multi-millionaire property developer.
The couple earned at least £61 million in outside income during their first year as unpaid advisers to the President. She sold her fashion firm last
