Lara Trump, who left her position as a Fox News contributor when her father-in-law, President Donald Trump, ran for president in 2022 will start hosting her own weekend news show on the cable network starting later this month.
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Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump's second-oldest son Eric, will host “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturdays at 9 p.m. EST starting Feb. 22.
It will be the first time the close relative of a president hosts a show on a major news network while that president is still in office (“Today” host Jenna Bush Hagar, for instance, didn’t start working for NBC until after her father left the White House).
Fox News has described the show as focused on “the return of common sense to all corners of American life” and said it will shed light “on the headlines driving the national conversation and affecting families around the country.”
Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, in a statement called Lara Trump "a gifted communicator who knows how to connect to the viewers."
Members of the Trump family make frequent appearances on Fox News—the president himself is set to be interviewed on the network by Bret Baier during the Super Bowl pre-game show on Sunday—and Lara Trump worked as an on-air contributor to the network from 2021 to December 2022.
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Several Fox News contributors and hosts have left their positions to work for Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth, his new secretary of defense, hosted the "Fox and Friends" morning show, Sean Duffy left the network to become the secretary of transportation and Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee for Director of National Intelligence, worked as a network contributor. Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former star of the Fox show "The Five," has been chosen as Ambassador to Greece.
At least 19. That’s how many people formerly affiliated with Fox News have been chosen for senior positions in Trump’s second administration, according to NPR.
Born Lara Yunaska, Trump was working as a producer for tabloid television program "Inside Edition" when she married Eric Trump in 2014. They have two children. She led the Trump-Pence Women's Empowerment Tour during her father-in-law's first run for office and fundraised for him throughout his first term. She worked on his 2020 campaign, which he lost, and last year was endorsed by him to be the Republican National Committee's co-chair. She was elected by a unanimous vote and resigned in December, after Trump won the election. It was widely rumored she would replace Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,as a senator after he was tapped to serve as Secretary of State but in December said she had withdrawn her name from consideration. She has hosted a web series called "The Right View" since 2020.