Where are the Presidents’ children today… see the first children now, from Tiffany Trump to Caroline Kennedy

When a president enters the White House, they expect a certain level of publicity – and sometimes, their children aren’t prepared for the intensity of fame. 

While some former presidents’ children stay out of the spotlight after their father is done in office, others find themselves back in the limelight.

Former first children have received high-profile ambassadorships, written shocking tell-all memoirs, and spoken out in op-eds against the incumbent President Donald Trump. 

From kids who go against their parents political beliefs to those who follow in their family’s footsteps by entering politics, FEMAIL has rounded up what the surviving first children are doing today. 

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was only three when she moved into the White House in 1961 alongside her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr. 

Caroline, 67, went on to attend Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School.

Caroline met Edwin Schlossberg while they were both working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She married the artist in 1986, and they share three children, including Rose Schlossberg, Tatiana Schlossberg, and Jack Schlossberg, who’s often in the spotlight for his liberal political beliefs and viral TikTok videos. 

Like her family, Caroline has been incredibly politically involved ever since graduating from Harvard.  

Caroline served as the first female ambassador to Japan under Barack Obama.

She then resigned after President Donald Trump was sworn in in 2017. 

The author and diplomat was appointed United States ambassador to Australia by Joe Biden and took office following her confirmation on June 10, 2022.

Caroline largely stays out of the spotlight, but released a headline-making video where she called her cousin RFK Jr. a ‘predator.’ 

The philanthropist accused RFK Jr. of setting family members on a path to drug addiction and mistreating small animals ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing. 

Caroline is Emeritus Trustee at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, named in honor of her late father. 

Trump fired its board members and appointed himself as chairman. 

Lynda Bird and Luci Baines Johnson

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s and former First Lady Claudia Taylor ‘Lady Bird’ Johnson’s eldest daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson, famously got married at the White House. 

Lynda attended George Washington University and is an honors graduate of the University of Texas, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. 

Lynda, 80, married Chuck Robb, who later served as the governor of Virginia and a state senator, in the East Room in 1967. Now, the oldest living child of a US president advocates for equal rights for women and works to continue the civil rights movement. 

Lynda’s younger sister, Luci Baines Johnson, 77, also had a White House wedding in 1966. Luci – who’s name was originally spelled Lucy until she changed the spelling in her teens as an act of rebellion – married Patrick Nugent in 1966 in a gown designed by Priscilla Kidder.

Luci and the Air National Guardsman had four children before divorcing in 1979 after 13 years together. She then married Scottish-born banker Ian J. Turpin in 1984.

Luci, who’s a part of the Texas Democrats, chairs LBJ Wealth Advisors, the private holding company her mother founded. 

Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower

President Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon’s daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, 79, followed the tradition of White House weddings and held hers in the White House Rose Garden when she married Edward Finch Cox in 1971.

Tricia met Edward at a high school dance in 1963 and they dated throughout college before tying the knot. They have one son, Christopher. Ed served as the New York State Republican chairman and the national coordinator of the Trump Victory 2020 re-election campaign.

Now, Tricia lives an under-the-radar life in Manhattan after campaigning with her father. She also serves as a trustee of the Richard Nixon Foundation. 

Julie Nixon volunteered as a White House tour guide during her father’s presidency and supported him after the Watergate scandal. The author has written several biographies and serves as a trustee of her father’s presidential library.

Julie Nixon married President Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson David Eisenhower in 1968. 

Michael, John ‘Jack’ Gardner, Steven and Susan Ford

Mike Ford married Gayle Ann Brumbaugh before his father, President Gerald Ford, took office, so he didn’t have the opportunity to have a White House wedding. 

Michael was a student at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and went on to oversee campus life at Wake Forest University before retiring in 2017 after 36 years. 

Jack Gardner Ford, 72, studied at Utah State University and worked as a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park during the summers. He became an entrepreneur and helped launch Outside magazine.

Jack appeared at multiple Republican National Conventions and served as executive director of the San Diego host committee for the RNC in 1996. In 1989, he married Juliann Felando.

Steven, who was 18 when his father became president, worked as a ranch hand in Utah, Montana, and Idaho. Later, Steven, 68, was a soap star in The Young and the Restless and appeared in Armageddon, Black Hawk Down, and Transformers. 

As the youngest of the Ford children, Susan took advantage of her father’s presidency by holding her senior prom at the White House in 1975. Fittingly, she was elected prom queen. 

Susan, 67, became a photojournalist and worked for the Associated Press and Newsweek. Susan went on to write two novels set in the White House and succeeded her mother as chairwoman of the Betty Ford Center.

In 1978, she married Charles Vance, one of her father’s former secret service agents and they had two children before divorcing in 1988. She later wed attorney Vaden Bales.

The only daughter of the former Republican president endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. 

John William ‘Jack,’ James Earl ‘Chip,’ Donnel Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ and Amy Carter

Jack Carter, 77, is President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter’s eldest son. 

Jack and his then-wife Judy had a young son of their own, Jason James, when his dad took office. In 2006, Jack ran for US Senate in Nevada but did not win in the general election. He spent most of his career working in finance. 

Chip Carter worked for his family’s peanut farming business and later participated in the Democratic National Committee. He also famously admitted to ‘lighting up’ with singer Willie Nelson on the roof of the White House.

Jeff Carter and his wife, Annette, were newlyweds when they moved into the White House for the first few years of their marriage. The couple met at Georgia Southwestern University and married in 1975 during his father’s presidential campaign. Jeff has been living with Parkinson’s Disease. 

Amy Lynn Carter, the couple’s only daughter, was only nine years old at the start of her father’s presidency and was said to roller skate through the White House hallways.

She attended Brown University but was academically dismissed in 1987 when she reportedly failed to keep up with her schoolwork. She switched to Memphis College of Art where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, before going on to receive her masters in art history from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1996.

Amy became a political activist who attended many protests and was once arrested at a CIA recruitment protest. 

Amy married computer consultant James Wentzel in 1996 and at her wedding she was not given away because she said she did not belong to anyone. The couple had a son named Hugo James Wentzel. They later divorced, and she married John Joseph ‘Jay’ Kelly in 2007. They share son Errol Carter Kelly.

Despite any previous tensions, Amy worked with her dad on the 1995 children’s book The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, based on a story he told her as a child. 

Michael, Patricia ‘Patti’ Davis, and Ron Reagan Jr. 

The 40th US President Ronald Reagan was a father of five. Michael was adopted by Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, before the couple divorced and later became a political radio talk-show host after working in aerospace. 

The retired Californian is a Newsmax contributor and serves as president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation.

Like her father, who was an actor before he was president from 1981 to 1989, Patti Davis became an actress and appeared in TV movies. 

Patti went on to write a tell-all about her parents that revealed her contentious relationship with them. However, in 2023 she wrote an op-ed for The New York Times where she said she regretted opening ‘the gates of our troubled family life.’ 

Patti married yoga teacher Paul Grilley in 1984 and they divorced in 1990. 

The longtime critic of the Republican party has been open about struggling with drug addiction starting at 15, self-harm, and an eating disorder. 

Patti said her late father would not recognize or approve of the political landscape today and would be ‘appalled.’ She said he ‘didn’t understand lack of civility,’ ‘attacking another person,’ or ‘cruelty,’ and ‘would be really scared for our democracy.’

Ron, 66, who calls himself an ‘an unabashed atheist,’ dropped out of Yale to become a professional ballet dancer and a member of the Joffrey Ballet. 

The commentator provided political analysis as an MSNBC contributor. Like his sister, he has expressed strong opposition to Trump.

He married Doria Palmieri, a clinical psychologist, in 1980. She died in 2014, and he married Federica Basagni in 2018. 

George W., John Ellis ‘Jeb,’ Neil, Marvin and Dorothy Bush Koch 

President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush had six children, with their oldest son George W. Bush, 78, serving as president from 2001 to 2009. 

The former governor, who went to Yale and worked in the oil business, is famously a painter in his retirement and is known for his friendship with Michelle Obama.  

Jeb, 72, became chairman of the Dade County Republican Party and then the governor of Florida. He was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and then taught a class at Texas A&M before being named presidential professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He married Mexican-American philanthropist Columba Garnica Gallo in 1974 and they have three children.

Jeb unsuccessfully ran for president in 2015 and Donald Trump mocked him throughout his campaign for being ‘low-energy.’

Neil Bush’s experience with dyslexia inspired Barbara Bush’s focus on childhood literacy programs as first lady. Neil went to Tulane University in New Orleans for his bachelor’s degree and MBA. The businessman chairs the board of directors at Points of Light, the philanthropic group his father founded. He also co-founded and chairs the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation.

Neil, 70, married Sharon Bush and they share three children. In 2003, they divorced and he married Maria Andrews. 

Marvin Bush, 68, nicknamed ‘Marvelous’ by his family, attended the University of Virginia and worked in insurance. During the 2016 presidential election when he endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson over Trump after his brother Jeb’s exit from the race. He married Margaret Conway in 1981 and they adopted two children.

Dorothy ‘Doro’ Bush Koch married former Democratic aide Robert ‘Bobby’ Koch in a private ceremony at Camp David in 1992. They live in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dorothy, 65, published the memoir My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush, which details ‘how her father confronted challenges, responded to crises, and kept his humor and personality through it all.’

The Boston College graduate, who helped found the wellness company Bright Bold & Real, is also the Honorary Chairman of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.

Chelsea Clinton 

Chelsea Clinton was only one month away from turning 13 when her father Bill Clinton became president. 

While her parents asked the media to give her privacy, she famously faced intense public scrutiny and relentless bullying. 

‘Sometimes I really wanted to fade into the background because I didn’t want as many people looking at me, or as many bright lights glaring at me,’ she said during a joint interview with her mother, Hillary Clinton. 

She began studying at Stanford University in 1997. She earned a master’s degree in international relations from Oxford and one in public health from Columbia University. 

The children’s book author now serves as vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and has defended Barron Trump against attacks from the media.

Chelsea, who has hinted at a future in politics, shares three children with her husband Marc Mezvinsky, who works in private equity. 

Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Bush Hager

President George W. Bush’s older twin daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush, graduated from Yale during his presidency and moved to New York City. 

Barbara and her twin sister, Jenna, 43, campaigned for their father and gave a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Barbara, an activist who’s not a member of the Republican party, supported Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and supports same sex marriage. 

In 2017, she and Jenna released the memoir Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life in 2017. Then, in 2018, she married screenwriter Craig Coyne in an intimate ceremony at the Bush family’s Maine compound. 

The mom of two campaigned for Kamala and leads the social responsibility department at the NBA.

Jenna Bush Hager, who was arrested for underage drinking at 20, went on to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a degree in English.

Jenna began working in a DC charter school as a teacher’s aide. She then started her career in journalism by working as a correspondent for NBC News in 2009. She was announced as the host of the Today show in 2019. She and her husband Henry share three children. 

Malia and Sasha Obama 

Malia, now 26, was only 10 when her dad, Barack Obama, became president in 2009.

She attended the illustrious Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where President Theodore Roosevelt’s son Archibald, President Richard Nixon’s daughters, and Chelsea Clinton also went. 

Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and started working with Donald Glover and Lena Dunham as a TV writer. 

In 2024, she made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival as Malia Ann with a short film called The Heart. 

Sasha Obama was the youngest child to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. at only seven years old. She attended Sidwell Friends School, and became close friends with President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Maisy Biden.

Sasha started college at the University of Michigan and later transferred to the University of Southern California before graduating in 2023 with a degree in sociology. Recently, she’s been spotted in Los Angeles. 

Ashley and Hunter Biden 

Joe Biden welcomed welcomed his first three children, sons Beau and Hunter and daughter Naomi, with his late wife Neilia Hunter. Joe had his fourth child, daughter Ashley, during his second marriage to first lady Jill Biden.

Ashley Biden, 43, attended Tulane University and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology. The social worker briefly dabbled in the fashion industry and released a line of hoodies that worked to help battle income inequality. 

Ashley now lives and works in Philadelphia with her husband, plastic surgeon and businessman Howard Krein.

Robert Hunter Biden, 55, is an attorney who worked as a lobbyist. Hunter, who attended Georgetown and Yale, was often in hot water during his father’s presidency. 

The father of five struggled with drug addiction, financial issues, and legal proceedings. 

He released Beautiful Things, a memoir detailing his family’s journey. 

President Trump controversially removed Hunter and Ashley’s Secret Service detail after learning the cost to taxpayers. Their father gave them six months of protection after he left office, which is typical of former presidents. 

In fact, Trump did the same for his children after he left office. However, Trump called the number of people assigned to their detail ‘ridiculous’ and called for them to be removed immediately on his Truth Social account. 

Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron Trump 

President Trump has five children, including his eldest, Don Jr., who served as executive vice president for the Trump organization and has been incredibly involved in his father’s campaign. 

Don Jr., 47, shares five children with his ex-wife Vanessa. After they split in 2018, he moved on with former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle and they were engaged until he began dating Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson. 

Ivanka Trump, 43, served as an official advisor to her father in the White House during his first term. The former fashion designer and Georgetown University graduate modeled for brands including Tommy Hilfiger and Versace. 

Ivanka, who attended, Choate, married real estate developer Jared Kushner, 44, and they share three children. They live in a $24 million mansion in Miami overlooking Biscayne Bay. 

In 2014, Fox News regular Eric Trump married Lara Lea Yunaska and they share two children.

Tiffany Trump, 31, is the only daughter from the president’s second marriage to southern actress Marla Maples. When Tiffany was 14, she released the song Like A Bird. The former socialite graduated from Georgetown University law school in 2020. She now lives in Miami with husband Michael Boulos, 27, and they just welcomed their first child, a son. 

She shared a black-and-white snapshot of the baby’s foot on Instagram to announce the birth, alongside a caption that read: ‘Welcome to the world our sweet baby boy, Alexander Trump Boulos.’ The newborn is Donald’s 11th grandchild.

Donald and Melania Trump’s only son Barron first moved into the White House in June 2017 after finishing school while living in Trump Tower in Manhattan. The 6’9 video game fanatic then attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland followed by Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida.  

Barron, 18, is currently attending New York University, where the Secret Service even accompanies him when he uses the rest room.