Lara Trump to Host Saturday-Night Show on Fox News

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump, will host a new Saturday-night show on Fox News Channel, putting the outlet in the unusual position of backing a primetime opinion host with direct connections to a sitting Commander-in-Chief on its schedule.

Trump will anchor “My View,” which Fox News said would “focus on the return of common sense to all corners of American life as the country ushers in a new era of practicality.” The show is expected to feature both analysis and “interviews with thought leaders, shedding light on the headlines driving the national conversation and affecting families around the country.” The show will air at 9 p.m. on Saturdays. MSNBC offers a program with similar concepts, “Inside With Jen Psaki,” the former White House Press Secretary for President Joe Biden, which runs Sundays and Mondays.

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Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News Media, called Trump “a gifted communicator who knows how to connect to the viewers, successful entrepreneur and working mother:” and said “Lara’s innate understanding of the American public and today’s political landscape will be a compelling addition to our weekend lineup.”

It could also be a complicated one.

News organizations like CNN and MSNBC have had to pivot when anchors with relatives who were politicians came under scrutiny. At MSNBC, for example, Alicia Melendez in 2023 had to recuse herself on air from coverage of her father, then-Senator Bob Melendez, after he was indicted on criminal charges for abuses of power. CNN found itself under unwanted scrutiny in 2021 when Chris Cuomo, brother of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, was found to have helped his sibling when he was facing claims of sexual abuse.

Lara Trump, married to President Trump’s son Eric, recently served as the Republican National Committee’s co-chair, and was a senior adviser to the Trump campaign during the 2020 presidential election. While her knowledge of and access to the current Trump administration will no doubt be valuable for Fox News Channel, her close connection to the White House is likely to mean she will have less independence from it. All of Fox News’ primetime hosts are conservative, but some on occasion, including Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, take issue with some White House policies.

Indeed, Fox News enjoys a narrower degree of separation from the Trump administration these days, owing to the fact that two former anchors, Pete Hegesth and Sean Duffy, have been approved to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

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Lara Trump has worked for Fox News in the past. She worked as a contributor to Fox News between 2021 and 2022. She left that role in December of that latter year, with the network at the time citing a policy that she was no longer eligible to work in that capacity because her father-in-law was running for office.

She has hosted a web series, “The Right View,” since 2020,which features a panel of conservative women discussing various social and political issues. Trump began her career as a producer for CBS’ “Inside Edition.”

Her program will send the current occupant of the Saturday time slot, Brian Kilmeade, to Sundays at 10 p.m., which sometimes airs a repeat of “The Big Weekend Show” and on occasion features programming from the Fox Nation streaming service.

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