Lara Trump, the woman who will be in charge of protecting Donald's legacy
Her misplaced statements and her exalted and fanatical rhetoric make the daughter-in-law of the outgoing president of the United States his worthy heir.
Donald Trump's misogynistic rhetoric, his public contempt for women, could hardly have had a media and political journey if his image had not been associated, from the beginning of his first campaign, with a series of female figures -Melania, Ivanka, Lara - which seemed to legitimize their verbal violence. Far from being a contradiction, these women represented a section of the electorate that felt very comfortable in the anti-feminist epic: very soon they would willingly adopt the role of stars of political incorrectness that triumphed on social networks.
Over the years, Trump has made it clear that he is well aware of this: When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, it took less than 24 hours to announce that her Supreme Court surrogate would also be a woman, and then it took less than one week to nominate candidate Amy Coney Barrett. Nor has the magnate had any problem in that it is Ivanka, instead of the first-born who bears the same name as her, who occupies a more relevant media place among her children. And this week, offsetting the announcement of Melania's possible divorce, Lara Trump, wife of her third child, took a step forward by announcing her intention to run for Senate in North Carolina in 2022.
After four years supporting the campaigns and policies of the former president, the intention of her daughter-in-law is now to move to the front line of US politics. Faced with the image of a defeated Donald, who has prostrated himself in his presidential chair like an angry child who does not know how to lose, breaking the toys one by one so that someone would pay attention to him, the wide and perfect smiles of Lara Trump seem to suggest an attitude different: in the face of the loser's tantrum, the tranquility of someone who knows that the game has only just begun. Because despite the fact that Ivanka's name already sounds like a possible presidential candidate for 2024, in reality, Lara's eccentricity makes her the ideal heiress of Donald: both are handled with ease between childish phrases out of place, exaggerations, lack of rigor and an exalted and fanatical rhetoric that instills terror.
Perhaps the best example - or at least the first, which serves well as a cover letter - were the statements she made on Fox News after Angela Merkel announced that she would open the borders to refugees from the Syrian war: 'This is the fall of Germany. It is the worst thing that has happened to Germany. This president knows it and is trying to prevent that from happening here. Then the media and social networks took it upon himself to remind him that it was less than a century since the Holocaust.
This cannot be seen, however, as an inappropriate departure from tone or an anecdotal error: just as he did not hesitate to use an invented phrase by Abraham Lincoln in a speech, and to laugh when the error is ugly, justifying that he took it from a meme viral, he also has no qualms about making fun of Joe Biden's stuttering. "Every time he goes on stage it makes you want to tell him, can you say it now, Joe? Come on, let those words come out. I feel bad for him ", she said before a microphone during an act of the last presidential campaign in a humorous tone. When a CNN reporter asked her about the facts a few days later, she was perplexed and with a cocky attitude she replied that she "had no idea that Joe Biden had ever suffered from stuttering"; her trying to save the ballot, she ended up being even more offensive: "she simply believed that what we saw in him when he is on stage must be cognitive impairment." These anecdotes might seem more funny than insulting - in fact, so a large American electorate believes - if we did not know that, four years ago, this same strategy of harmless buffoon served his father-in-law to get to be elected president of the United States .
As for her private life, all the pieces fit into the puzzle of a successful woman: Lara Lea Yunaska (her maiden name) was born into a middle-class family in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1982. Daughter of a boat builder and a housewife, she herself tells that as a child she decided to achieve all the dreams she set for herself, which were many and very different. At first she wanted to be an Amazon and if she did not succeed, it was her because she got tired of so many kinds of horse and she preferred to turn it into a simple hobby. It would not be the first time that Lara Trump had changed her mind about her professional future: she graduated in communication from North Carolina State University and worked for a few months as a television intern, but soon after she moved to New York to take a pastry course at the French Culinary Institute, one of the most prestigious cooking schools in the country. She there she founded her own business, Lara Lea Confections, and at the same time, if she got bored with it, she also worked as a personal trainer. In 2012, she Lara returned to television as the script coordinator on the CBS news program Inside Edition, and a year later she rose to the position of associate producer on the same channel. In short, his would not be so much a story of personal improvement, as the demonstration that money allows you to have one dream per year and, of course, fulfill them all.
While these changes of positions were taking place, Lara also had time to meet Eric Trump, third son of billionaire Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana, at a dinner with mutual friends. Three months later, he called her because he still remembered her after that first meeting with her and then yes, the definitive spark of her jumped. «It was the best date of my life», Lara explained about this meeting, «I simply fell in love with a boy. Something clicked on us… and it just worked. Love was consolidated with a wedding in style five years later - PageSix magazine published that the master of ceremonies joked at the time of the link that the bride was gaining "a family and six million followers on Twitter" - and the birth of two babies: a boy named Eric and a girl named Carolina, in honor of the state in which they grew up and as an example that in the United States any occasion is good to show patriotic fervor.
Two adopted beagles, Charlie and Ben, are also added to this picture of a happy family - and very blonde - that they are so passionate about showing both on their Instagram accounts. A detail to take into account since another of Lara Trump's passions, according to herself she insists on emphasizing when she talks about her character, is her love for animals, especially for dogs - who have already become the protagonists of the latter. campaign, thanks to the Bidens. However, Lara does not seem to have realized that it could be a bit contradictory that in the same Instagram feed where she appears posing in shelters with abandoned dogs, her beagles appear, a little lower and a little higher, in a fairly disguised way. grotesque, for example, with person-shaped suits.
But meeting Eric Trump that night wasn't just the beginning of an idyllic love story for Lara. She also redirected, once again, the course of her career: in 2015, she changed her position from producer to senior advisor at Giles-Parscale, the marketing agency that has advised Donald Trump on his two Electoral campaigns. It was only the starting point of a political alliance between the tycoon and his daughter-in-law that still endures today. «He is a man who first of all loves his family. He is a great storyteller and he loves long family dinners where we laugh a lot. He has a big heart and is an incredibly loyal person who never forgets those who have been with him. I feel very lucky to have a man like him as a father-in-law.
From then on, Lara began to dedicate words like these to her in public, full of affection, that showed unwavering support for Donald Trump and that, together with her appearances at rallies since 2016, have made her a very valuable female face for the image of the former president. In fact, after Trump won the election, and although he has never signed an employment contract within the White House, Lara has devoted all of her time and effort to gaining a privileged position by her side. During her father-in-law's tenure, she has coordinated multiple events on female empowerment under the Trump brand, launched several successful campaigns to raise funds for Republicans, and is the host of Real News Update, a webcast. weekly "real news," where it is clear that no matter how much Donald Trump is talked about, it is never enough.
To this day, even when Ivanka has already left the White House, indirectly assuming the defeat of her father, Lara Trump continues to insist on validating the conspiratorial version that points out that the last elections were fraudulent due to voting by mail and that, for Therefore, the victory would go to Donald Trump and not to Joe Biden. As an argument, Lara added this week, in statements to Fox News, that it is easy to verify this considering that there were thousands more people at Trump's rallies than at Biden's. A somewhat absurd justification, but reminiscent, once again, of those usually used by Donald himself to defend this same version of events. That Lara has confirmed in the midst of this storm her intention to appear in North Carolina is not, of course, the result of an awkwardness, but rather the opposite: when Trumpism - that is, the extreme right wing within the Republican Party - It seems to be going through its lowest hours, Lara Trump makes it clear that there is still much to say in this war.
