Melania Trump appears to be sending a clear message she's ready to play a bigger role in her second stint as first lady.

The former first lady shared in a new ... "Maybe some people, they see me as just the wife of the president." "But I’m standing on my own two feet, independent," she asserted.

An interview from 1999 has resurfaced in which Melania Trump said she would "stand by [my] man" if he was president.

"Maybe people see me ... When he was first elected in 2016, she approached her own role very differently to her recent ...