Daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump and former RNC Chair, Lara Trump, is joining Fox News — where she will host a Saturday evening show.
The New York Times broke the news Wednesday afternoon, announcing the equal parts stunning and not-at-all surprising news that Trump would be joining the largely right-of-center cable news network that has long enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with all things Trump.
Writing for the New York Times, Michael Grynbaum reports:
Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party, will begin hosting a new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network is set to announce on Wednesday.
The president and his children are frequent guests on Fox News. But there is no precedent for the close relative of a sitting president to host a high-profile show on a major television news channel.
“My View with Lara Trump,” expected to air on Saturdays at 9 p.m. Eastern, will include a mix of analysis and interviews with influential figures. The network is describing the show as focused on “the return of common sense to all corners of American life,” echoing a phrase, “common sense,” that the Trump administration has frequently deployed.
Lara Trump spent several years working as a producer on the news magazine show Inside Edition, which is noted by the NY Times write-up and served as an on-air contributor to Fox News from March 2021 to December 2022.
“Lara was a total professional and a natural when she was with us years ago,” Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, told The New York Times in a message on Wednesday. “She is very talented and is a strong, effective communicator with great potential as a host.”
In a statement provided by Fox News, Ms. Trump said, “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. 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.”
“The Trump-Fox relationship is now on quite solid ground,” notes Grynbaum, who astutely adds how “Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who controls the network, attended Mr. Trump’s inauguration and on Monday, spent time in the Oval Office with the president. Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy exited their on-air Fox positions in the fall to become Mr. Trump’s secretaries of defense and transportation.
