First Lady Melania Trump Will Bring Two Special Guests To State Of The Union Address, Here’s Who They Are

The State of the Union Address will be held on Tuesday night, and despite over 40 Democrats boycotting the address, the U.S. Capitol will be packed!

The address will include President Trump’s entire Cabinet, along with Supreme Court Justices, military officials, and special guests invited by lawmakers, President Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump.

According to a new report, Melania Trump will bring two young ladies to her speech tonight.

The New York Post revealed who those two young ladies are:

Melania Trump will host two young women in her guest box for Tuesday’s State of the Union address who represent the issues she champions as first lady.

Seated with her in the House chamber will be Sierra Burns, 24, who was a beneficiary of Trump’s Foster Youth to Independence program, and Everest Nevraumont, a 10-year-old student from Austin, Texas, who attends Alpha School, which offers a hybrid learning curriculum that includes AI.

The two issues are a signature part of Trump’s platform. She is leading the Presidential AI Challenge and has been a longtime advocate for foster children, an issue that is particularly close to her heart.

“Fostering the Future has positioned the first lady as a leader as it relates to empowering children with education and technology,” a source close to her told The Post.

Both young women are accomplished in their own right.

Burns has become a public advocate about the foster system, having grown up in it. Everest is an accomplished speaker, podcaster, and history champion. She gave a Ted Talk at 10 years old to discuss her love of learning.

The first lady will be joined by other members of the Trump family on Tuesday to watch President Trump give his address to the nation, where he’ll lay out his agenda for the next year.

All his adult children and their partners – Don Jr. and fiancée Bettina Anderson, Eric and Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and Tiffany and Michael Boulos – will all be at the speech, according to sources close to them.

Melania Trump has made foster children the centerpiece of her Be Best campaign, working on it even before returning to the White House.

Here are photos of Burns and Nevraumont:

Melania Trump to host stand-out young women as guests for the State of the Union address https://t.co/rAOSJTN7UA pic.twitter.com/YHQ77wVFlE

— New York Post (@nypost) February 24, 2026

President Trump will have a special guest of his own.

CBS reported that Trump will invite a 100-year-old Korean War veteran:

President Trump is planning to honor a 100-year-old veteran Tuesday night by awarding E. Royce Williams the Medal of Honor for his actions in a secret mission during the Korean War, sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.

This would mark the first time that a president has awarded the medal, the U.S. military’s highest honor for valor in combat, during a State of the Union address.

Williams, a retired Navy captain, was part of the longest aerial engagement in U.S. Navy history when he fought seven Soviet MiG fighter jets, shooting down four, during a half-hour dogfight in 1952.

Soviet involvement was top secret at the time, so the records of the event were classified for decades. At the height of the Korean War, Williams and another American pilot were flying off the coast of the Korean Peninsula when they encountered seven Soviet miG-15 fighter jets. The Soviet aircraft opened fire, he would later recall: “Since they started the fight, he said, “I shot back.”

Williams struck one of the MiGs, and his fellow American pilot pursued it. Then, flying alone, he engaged the remaining aircraft, downing three more Soviet planes while maneuvering through what military accounts later described as hundreds of rounds of incoming fire. In recent years, the U.S. military has published detailed descriptions of the encounter, portraying it as one of the most intense aerial engagements of the war.

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Here Are The Special Guests That Will Attend President Trump’s State Of The Union Address