The close ties between the conservative cable giant and the Trump administration are set to grow tighter this month. In a precedent-setting move, Fox News will announce on Wednesday that the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump will host her own weekend show, which will debut later this month. While the incestuous nature between the conservative cable giant and Donald Trump’s White House is no secret, as nearly 20 former Fox News employees were tapped to be part of the president’s new administration, there is really no criterion for a relative of a sitting president to be hosting a cable news show. That is, until now.
My View with Lara Trump will debut on February 22 and air every Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET. The network describes the program as a mix of analysis and interviews with prominent political figures. It will be focused on “the return of common sense to all corners of American life,” a recurring theme the Trump administration has echoed. This isn’t Trump’s first time working for the MAGA channel. Following former President Joe Biden’s victory, she joined Fox News as an on-air contributor in March 2021 and remained with the network until the end of 2022. While she would later host a right-wing podcast and flirt with a singing career, Trump was eventually urged by her father-in-law to run for a leadership position at the Republican National Committee last year and was elected as co-chair, a position she left after the presidential election.
“Lara was a total professional and a natural when she was with us years ago,” Scott told the Times on Wednesday about the hiring. “She is very talented and is a strong, effective communicator with great potential as a host.”. There have been other instances of television networks hiring presidential progeny for on-air roles, but never while their parents were then currently serving in the White House. For instance, Chelsea Clinton was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014, which was more than a decade after her father Bill Clinton was president and years before her mother Hillary ran for the White House. (Though she was at NBC while her mom was secretary of state.) Jenna Bush Hager, meanwhile, joined NBC’s Today show a few months after her father George W. Bush wrapped up his second term.
