Melania Details Her Role As First Lady The Second Time Around: 'I'm Standing On My Own Two Feet'

During Donald Trump’s first term, First Lady Melania Trump wasn’t known for speaking up all that much. She rarely gave interviews and sometimes failed to appear in public for long stretches. When her husband started running for president again, Melania was also around less often than candidates’ wives typically are, including skipping a speech at the Republican National Convention.

But with Trump headed back to office, Melania has been more present than usual. She authored a memoir that was published near Election Day, and it was recently announced that she will be the subject of a documentary, directed by longtime Hollywood exile Brett Ratner, for which Amazon paid a reported $40 million.

Now, Melania has revealed some things in a new interview with Fox News.

Melania Trump talks about her upcoming $40 million documentary on Amazon.

It sounds more insufferable than I thought it was going to be.

Her “responsibilities” of packing, moving, and decorating the White House?

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The former and future first lady appeared for the interview on Fox and Friends, with host Ainsley Earhardt. In it, she discussed how she was perceived during her first stint as first lady.

“Some people, they see me as just the wife of the president, but I’m standing on my own two feet, independent. I have my own thoughts, I have my own yes and no, I don’t always agree with what my husband is saying or doing, and that’s OK,” Melania said in the interview, as reported by The Daily Beast.

If those disagreements, Melania was clear that, unlike her husband, she is a supporter of abortion rights, and that she talked him out of the child separation policy in his first term.

“I give him my advice, and sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn’t.”

There was also detail about the Amazon documentary. In production right now, after starting in November, it will follow her ‘day to do life,” especially during the presidential transition, her putting together a staff, and presumably the early days of the next Trump term.

“My life is incredible, it is incredibly busy,” she says of the documentary.

“The difference is I know where I will be going, I know the rooms where we will be living. I know the process, the first time was challenging… But this time I have everything… I already packed, I already selected the the furniture that needs to go in. So it’s, it’s very different,” Melania said in the interview about how she approaches moving back into the White House.

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