In just four days time, President-elect Donald Trump will make the White House his home again – along with the help of his First Lady Melania Trump, of course.

Shortly after 8am on January 19, 2021, the Republican nominee and his family will leave the place they called home for four years previously and will make the prestigious residency their own again – and Melania certainly knows how.

Reflecting on the handover from Trump’s first time in office back in 2017, the 54-year-old seemed to take a swipe at former POTUS Barack Obama and the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, as she sat down with FOX News’ Ainsley Earhardt to discuss her upcoming documentary, as well as the transition back into the White House.

Melania Trump has discussed what it’s like moving into the White House ahead of her second stint (FOX News)

The incoming First Lady tends to steer clear of the spotlight – although she did release a memoir back in October, which detailed how she first met Donald Trump in a New York City nightclub, among other anecdotes.

The Slovenian model even managed dodge the majority of her husband’s 2024 presidential campaign, but did spark ‘body double’ rumors after making an appearance on election day.

While the name of the film is yet to be released, her ‘truly unique story’ is set to be told in a new Amazon Prime Video movie, which releases on the streamer and in cinemas in ‘the second half of 2025’.

During Melania’s and Earhardt’s conversation, the soon-to-be First Lady was asked what the difference is between moving into the White House this time compared to last. Have a listen:

“The difference is I know where I will be going, I know the rooms where we will be living, I know the process,” she replied.

Melania then seemed to make somewhat of a claim about the handover from the Obamas, saying: “The first time was challenging, we didn’t have much of the information, the information was upheld [withheld] for [from] us from previous administration.

“But this time I have everything, I have the plans. I could move in, I already packed – I already selected the furniture that needs to go in.

“So, it’s [a] very different transition this time, second time around.”

Melania made somewhat of a dig about the way the Obama’s handed the White House over to them back in 2017 (FOX News)

Melania was then asked whether she knew how she is going to decorate the rooms, to which she explained she wasn’t going to make too many changes, but that she does still intend to.

President Biden and his family are currently still living in the White House, Melania confirmed, but will be moving out on January 20.

“What happens on January 20, the transition team has only five hours to move [the] Bidens out and to move us in,” she explained. “Everything has to be planned to the minute.”

Donald Trump has only been back in office for a few days, and people are already calling for him to remain as president until 2032.

Trump‘s inauguration took place in Washington D.C. on Monday (January 20), and the 78-year-old wasted no time in signing an influx of executive orders that could completely change the US as we know it.

From pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, to forbidding transgender women to be housed in female prisons, Trump has made slew of proposals.

Speaking in his inauguration speech, Trump announced that ‘the golden age of America starts now’. But it could take more than four years to carry out the country’s so-called ‘golden age’, some have suggested.

With this in mind, US Representative Andy Ogles has advised making a change to the 22nd Amendment that would allow Trump to run for a third term as president.

As it stands, the POTUS can only run twice.

Addressing the proposal, Ogles said in a statement issued yesterday (January 23): “President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years.

US Representative Andy Ogles wants President Trump to be able to run for a 3rd term (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

“He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.

“To that end, I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms.

“This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Ogles went on to say that it’s ‘imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden Administration’.

According to the congressman, it will take a decade to correct the ‘relentless abuses’ the Biden Administration subjected Americans to during his time in office.

Trump has wasted no time in making some big changes in the White House (Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)

Ogles wants the language of the proposed amendment to now read: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

For the change to be made, Ogles’ proposal will have to be passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, for the president to then sign into law.

It’s unclear how long this process might take.

A lip reader has revealed what Barack Obama and Donald Trump said to one another at Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

The former presidents were two of the many well-known faces to attend Carter’s funeral yesterday (January 9) in Washington D.C.

Carter died at the age of 100 years old on December 29. He was the longest-lived president in US history and is survived by his children Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy, 11 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

The former president, who left office in 1981, lived so long that two of the eulogies were written by people who died before him — his vice president Walter Mondale, and his White House predecessor Gerald Ford.

Carter was laid to rest in Washington National Cathedral. All of his living successors were in attendance, with President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse his 1976 run for the White House, delivering a eulogy.

Former president Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, political rivals who have mocked each other for years, sat next to each other and talked for several minutes — even sharing a laugh.

Now, a lip reader has revealed what the pair were seemingly chatting about.

Barack Obama and Donald Trump sat together at Jimmy Carter’s funeral (LAURENT CARON/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

In one snippet of their lengthy conversation, the lip reader – who spoke with Sky News – shared that Obama was saying something about making it ‘soon’, with Trump admitting: “I haven’t got a clue.”

“Big, big money,” Obama replied. “And you’ll always get people leaving their cabin.”

Elsewhere, Obama was seen laughing at Trump said: “Can you imagine?”

“We are here for a tough show,” the President-elect continued.

Trump also asked his White House predecessor: “Would you give me a go at starting it?”

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Obama then said: “Yeah, I would. Yeah. We’ll see what happens.”

Trump went on to discuss getting the public’s view on something, but it’s unclear what.

Away from what Obama and Trump were chatting about, Carter’s family paid tribute to the 100-year-old.

“He built houses for people who needed homes,” said Joshua Carter, a grandson who recalled how Carter regularly taught Sunday school in his native hamlet of Plains, Georgia, after leaving the White House.

Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. He waged peace anywhere in the world, wherever he saw a chance. He loved people.”

Jason Carter, another grandson, praised his grandfather and his wife Rosalynn, who died in 2023.

He wryly noted the couple’s frugality, such as washing and reusing Ziploc bags, and the former president’s struggles with using his mobile phone.

“They were small-town people who never forgot who they were and where they were from no matter what happened in their lives.”

Ivanka Trump has issued a brutal three-word response when she was asked if she had any plans to help out in the White House.

The 43-year-old businesswoman was a senior advisor in her father Donald Trump’s first administration as president between 2017 and 2021, and also assumed a high role as director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.

Ivanka was present at the rally her father hosted outside the White House before a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol and then, mysteriously, was nowhere to be seen on Trump’s campaign trail last year.

The former aide had previously confirmed that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, who also served as a senior advisor in the Trump White House, would be leaving Washington for sunnier shores in Florida, closing the door on politics to pursue their family life.

At the time, Ivanka said: “While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena.”

Now, it appears Ivanka is sticking to her guns and has zero intention of helping her father out during his second administration, which he is due to take over on Monday (January 20).

Ivanka Trump previously served as an advisor for her father, Donald (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Appearing on The Skinny Confidential’s Him & Her Show on Tuesday (January 14), Trump’s eldest daughter issued a brutal response when asked why she is steering clear of Washington.

Ivanka explained: “I love policy and impact. I hate politics. And unfortunately, the two are not separable.”

She continued: “There is a darkness to that world that I don’t really want to welcome into mine.

“To some degree, I’m at the center of the storm because my father is about to be president, but it’s a very dark, negative business. And some people love the gladiator aspect of it – the fight. That was never me.”

The couple and their three children moved to Florida after Trump’s 2020 election loss, which she suggested was in her hindsight of knowing the true ‘cost’ of serving for her country.

Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“It’s a price that I’m not willing to make my kids bear,” she added, and said she missed out on some ‘really critical moments’.

“My primary goals were just to like, be the best freaking mom,” Ivanka reaffirmed.

Despite distancing herself from politics, Ivanka said she still intends to ‘show up’ for her dad – but just as a daughter rather than an aide.

She continued: “I think I’m most looking forward to just being able to show up for him as a daughter and be there for him to take his mind off things, to watch a movie with him, or watch a sports game.

“To know that he can be with me, and be himself and just relax and for me to be able to provide that for him in a very loving way as his daughter.

“It’s the world’s loneliest position – the enormity of the decisions you’re making on a daily basis, how transactional everyone is