Fox News Finds New Way to Kiss the Ring With Lara Trump Show
No sitting president’s relative has hosted a network show before.
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Lara Trump has chosen a Fox News seat over a Senate seat.
The former Republican National Committee co-chair and current daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump is set to rejoin the network with a new show.
Trump is set to host My View with Lara Trump, a 9 p.m. weekly Saturday show that would add “return of common sense to all corners of American life,” according to the network. The show, which debuts Feb. 22, would provide both Trump’s analysis and interviews with high-profile figures.
“I’m thrilled to bring my voice back to Fox News, talk directly with the American people, and highlight what makes this country so great,” Trump said in a statement.
“As I cover the success of The Golden Age of America, I look forward to where this time will lead our country and where this opportunity will lead me in the future.”
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While other presidential children have gone on to media roles, such as former President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush Hager’s years-long tenure on Today, Trump’s show would mark the first network show hosted by a sitting president’s relative.
Lara Trump will be the first relative of a sitting president to have a network show.
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The program also comes more than two years after Trump, who is married to the president’s son Eric Trump, left her post as Fox News contributor after the president announced his reelection campaign. She was a network employee from March 2021 to December 2022.
“Lara was a total professional and a natural when she was with us years ago,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott told The New York Times, which first reported the news. “She is very talented and is a strong, effective communicator with great potential as a host.”
After a yearlong tenure as RNC co-chair, Trump, 42, was widely floated as a potential candidate for Florida’s Senate seat that opened after Marco Rubio was nominated as secretary of state.
But her chances dimmed after reports emerged that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was other candidates to replace Rubio upon his departure.
President Trump also said in December he didn’t expect his daughter-in-law to be appointed. “I probably don’t, but I don’t know,” he told reporters. “Ron is doing a good job. It is his choice, nothing to do with me.”
Trump withdrew herself from consideration in late December, and she formally stepped down from her co-chair role during an RNC meeting last month.
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