She reinvents herself

Melania Trump: from appendage to Iron Lady

Melania Trump signing her memoirs. With a dedication, the book costs 75 instead of 45 dollars.(Bild: Regine Mahaux/Melania Trump)

The wife of the new US president apparently wants to make her second "term in office" more powerful. The portrait of a humiliated woman signaling to the world: I'm going my own way!

The overly wide brim of her hat kept her own husband at bay - what was amusing as a witty hoppala at the inauguration could actually be the first indication of Melania Trump's new role at the side of the 47th US President: "Look, I'm no longer the well-behaved appendage who quietly endures every dirty joke, every humiliation, every betrayal. Look here, I am no longer the one you remember from the first term of the new, old US president. I'm taking my rightful place.