Donald Trump has announced that Melania Trump will be joining him in the White House for his second term.

The president-elect, 78, revealed in a new interview with TIME — while being named the magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday, Dec. 12 — that the former first lady, 54, “will be active, if she has to.” during his next four years as president.

“Oh yeah,” Trump said when asked if Melania would stay in the White House. “She was, she was very, she actually became very active towards the end, as you saw in interviews. And she does it – she does it well. People are really watching.”

“She is very popular with people, Melania,” the politician added of his wife of almost 20 years. “And they like the fact that it’s not in your face all the time, and that’s for a lot of reasons. A lot of politicians have that, you know. But it’s her, it’s really her, they really like her. They really love her. Actually, in many.” When I give speeches, we love our first lady. You have signs, we love our first lady. No, she will be active when she needs to be, when she needs to be.

A few days before Trump secured the presidency in the 2024 election in early November, sources close to Melania and the Trump family spoke about the possibility of moving to the White House again.

A source close to the Trumps told PEOPLE at the time that Melania would “probably not” make the White House her primary residence and that she was reportedly hoping to spend more time in New York City with her 18-year-old son Barron, who is currently watching Trump started his first year of study at New York University.

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“As much as Melania loves Mar-a-Lago and her life in Palm Beach, she will be spending more time in New York with her son, who is more important to her than anything else,” the source said of the coming months. “If her husband is elected, she will, as always, attend the White House events to which she is invited. Melania knows what to do, but still has a mind of her own.”

The source added: “That has not changed and will not change if former President Trump wins the election.”

Another source added that she would accept whatever was asked of her for her role as first lady. “Barron’s safety and well-being will always be at the top of her priority list, but that doesn’t mean she would shirk her duties as First Lady should this opportunity arise again,” the source believed.