Lara Trump's Softest Of All Softball Interviews With Trump Has Everyone Howling
The interview was taped July 7, the same day Trump's Justice Department left MAGA fans fuming with the announcement that a long-rumored client list belonging to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not exist, and a day after Axios first broke the story.
The news caused even some of Trump's staunch supporters to turn on the president, sending MAGA into a frenzy.
But it didn't come up during the interview, in which Lara Trump praised her father-in-law.
'I think when people look at the first six months of this administration, you have had more success, I think, than many presidents in history throughout the term of their entire term in office,' she gushed at the start.
She also commended him for having 'a knack for putting people around you who are successful and make you even more successful.'
'I think this has been sort of a trait of yours your entire life,' she said.
But it was a question near the end of the interview that really had eyes rolling on social media.
'I don't think anyone will ever forget President Donald J. Trump,' she said. 'But when history looks back on this time in our country, when history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?'
The president said he wanted to be remembered as 'a good person, but a person that saved our country.'
Trump's critics panned the interview:
the hard-hitting journalism we all deserve. https://t.co/WSk1GHPgnG
— Robert Garcia (@RobertGarcia) July 13, 2025
Trump's staged interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara, was a cringe-worthy spectacle of nepotism and self-aggrandizement. Passing off a softball family chat as serious journalism is laughable-imagine the outrage if a leader from the Global South tried such a stunt. It reeks of… https://t.co/YxHh7Jg7B4
— Dr. Arshad Choudhary (@DoctorArshadCh) July 13, 2025
You can't even call this a softball interview. It's a T-ball interview. https://t.co/IbsKIXQ1mh
— Edward Oh 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@EdwardHBOh) July 13, 2025
The president managed to find the sole figure in media who won't ask him tough questions about the Epstein files for an interview tonight. https://t.co/SXKrdktThi
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 13, 2025
Have we really reached the point where he only feels safe being interviewed by his lamer son's wife?
— Bill DeMayo (@BDeMayo) July 13, 2025
I know we're all numb to this by now, but the fact that right wingers moan all day long about how biased liberal media is while Fox News straight up has the President interviewed by HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW is so rich https://t.co/vw6WM9fVhX
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) July 13, 2025
He may as well just interview himself. It'd be about as useful
— magnus (@degenutz) July 13, 2025
Imagine if MSNBC had hired Ashley Biden's husband & given him a show that he used almost exclusively to do puff interviews with Biden admin officials, including his father-in-law. The media is often deferential to Dems, yes, but the below is really unserious. https://t.co/SjfV9F9ejq
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) July 13, 2025
I know it's Fox News, but can we just step back a sec and realize how nuts it is that not only does the Prez's DIL has a weekly show on FN, but they let her interview the President himself? Just me? 🤷♂️ https://t.co/T84Hiln2cb
— BDS (@realSweetBrian) July 13, 2025
The incredible lack of journalistic integrity being cheered on by all the people claiming mainstream news lacks journalistic integrity https://t.co/bA4dlkTVtG
— Conservative Credit Underwriting Culture (@CECL_Allowance) July 13, 2025
The right-wing shitheads cry about the "biased liberal media"...but have no issue with Trump being interviewed by his DAUGHTER-IN-LAW????Paramount/CBS are fucking idiots for settling that goddamn 60 Minutes lawsuit. Weak, spineless fucks. Holy fucking double standards. https://t.co/YibGtrqjPy
— Valerie 🖤 (@Despair2077) July 14, 2025
🚨 Trump's Interview with Lara Trump Was a Joke 🚨Not a single mention of EPSTEIN — the ONLY thing anyone's been talking about all week.Instead of addressing the elephant in the room, we got another softball interview filled with fluff. No answers. No accountability.🔊… pic.twitter.com/orttdKXQbG
— Project Constitution (@ProjectConstitu) July 14, 2025
You know, Trump's softball interview with Lara is not helping him out at all. In fact, it's making things worse.
— Matt Paulus 🇺🇸 (@mdpaulus) July 13, 2025
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