Lara Trump will take on an unprecedented role on Saturday when “My View with Lara Trump” premieres on Fox — as the first relative of a sitting president to host a show on a major TV network.
The new gig isn’t completely unparalleled.
Jenna Bush Hager, for example, joined the “Today” show in 2009 just a few months after her father, former President George W. Bush, left office.
But the 42-year-old broadcaster’s plans to host a political news show while her father-in-law serves as the commander-in-chief presents a new and unique situation – one that some critics could interpret as a conflict of interest.
“I think it’s an asset,” Lara, who is married to President Trump’s son Eric, told The Post in an interview this week. “There are very few people who have the ability to reach out to so many of these folks and have them sit down for a more personal interview and I’m really excited to do it.”
Lara said she aims to give viewers an inside look at the biggest “movers and shakers” running the White House – like following Robert F. Kennedy Jr. through a day managing the health department or shadowing Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency.
“Certainly you can expect that there’s one particular family member who I definitely want to interview,” she said.
Her first show will feature sit-down interviews with prominent women in the Trump administration, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
She also signaled interest in meeting with Linda McMahon, Trump’s Department of Education pick, to discuss solutions to the country’s lackluster education scores.
“You’ve heard a lot about Donald Trump in a very negative sense when it comes to women,” Lara told The Post.
“The truth is that Donald Trump surrounds himself with the best and the brightest, and many of those people happen to be women, and he has placed women, specifically in this administration, in traditionally male-dominated positions and in some of the most important positions.”
“My View” will air weekly on Saturdays at 9 p.m. Brian Kilmeade, who currently hosts “One Nation with Brian Kilmeade” on Saturday nights, will be moved to Sundays at 10 p.m.
As the name suggests, “My View” is more of an analysis-based show – not “the fast-paced, crazy news cycle” we’ve grown accustomed to, Lara said.
She added that as a mother, she’s particularly interested in covering stories related to children’s wellbeing, like food quality and educational failures in the US.
The gig at Fox follows a Trump-fueled career in media and politics for Lara, who first worked as a producer on “Inside Edition” for about four years.
She then joined Fox as an on-air contributor in 2021. She parted ways with the network the following year when Trump started up his presidential campaign, since Fox has a policy about not employing people connected to candidates.
Most recently, Lara served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee – a role her father-in-law vehemently endorsed – during Trump’s presidential campaign. She stepped down in December.
That’s when, she says, talks started to grow serious about a role at Fox.
It’s also when she told a reporter that she “would seriously consider” running for the Senate seat left vacant by Marco Rubio, now the president’s secretary of state.
“I would never say never,” Lara said about considering a run for the Senate in the future.
As co-chair of the RNC, she “enjoyed being out there, meeting people all across the country,” so running for the Senate is “something I would absolutely consider again,” she told The Post.
But as a mother of two young children, the timing wasn’t right, she said.
That desire to be present for her children also kept her from seriously considering a role as a senior White House official, especially since she did not want to uproot her family and move to Washington, Lara said.
Her mind was made up after hearing from her sister-in-law Ivanka Trump and Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner, who had taken high-level positions during Trump’s first term.
It “took a toll on them as a family,” Lara said.
“My father-in-law would love to have us around more, not less, and so I think he would have been thrilled had I gone to him and said, ‘I would love to work in the White House,’” Lara told The Post. “But no, it was never something that I really wanted to do.”
Lara and Eric currently live in Jupiter, Fla. Her show on Fox will be filmed using both New York and Florida studios and will involve a lot of traveling, according to the network.
Some media watchers have taken issue with Lara’s new role, claiming she will be unable to fairly cover the Trump administration.
“If Fox News really does see itself as a legitimate news outlet, then the hire of Lara Trump is just baffling,” said senior media writer Tom Jones in an op-ed for Poynter.
“Don’t they realize that from now on, whenever they try to take a moral high ground about news coverage, one can always return their lob by saying: ‘You hired the president’s daughter-in-law!’” Jones added.
In response to such criticisms, Lara said, “There’s always going to be people who, when the name Trump is thrown around specifically, have things that are negative to say.”
