President Trump has persuaded various FOX News -Gastheren to leave the network and to play an important role in his administration.
Now a Trump accepts the network.
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Mr Trump and a former co-chairman of the Republican Party, starts organizing a new weekend show on FOX News on 22 February, announced the network on Wednesday.
The president and his children are frequent guests on Fox News. But there is no precedent for the close family member of a sitting president to organize a controversial show on a big news channel of television.
“My opinion with Lara Trump,” Expectation on Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern, will contain a mix of analysis and interviews with influential figures. The network describes the show as aimed at 'The return of common sense for all corners of American life', following a term 'common sense', which the Trump administration has often deployed.
Mrs. Trump, 42, who is married to the president's son Eric, is no stranger to a television studio. She worked for a number of years as a producer on 'Inside Edition' and served as an on-Air contribution to FOX News from March 2021 to December 2022.
“Lara was a total professional and of course when she was with us years ago,” Suzanne Scott, the Chief Executive of Fox News Media, told the New York Times on Wednesday. “She is very talented and is a strong, effective communicator with a great potential as a host.”
Last year, at the insistence of her father-in-law, Mrs. Trump ran ahead and was elected co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. She helped to supervise the finances of the party, election activities and nominating the Convention in Milwaukee. She got rid of the role last month.
Mrs. Trump told a reporter in December that she would 'seriously consider' having to chase the senate seat in Florida by Marco Rubio, who is now State Secretary. However, by January she was in a discussion with Mrs. Scott about a formal role in the network.
Presidential offspring has recorded jobs on television news networks in the past, but not while their father (or, in the case of Mrs Trump, father-in-law) led the country.
Jenna Bush Hager joined NBC's “Today” in 2009, a few months after her father, George W. Bush, ended his second term; She is now a staple of the morning programming of NBC. Chelsea Clinton worked at NBC News from 2011 to 2014, after her father was president, although in a period in which her mother, Hillary Clinton, served as State Secretary. Chelsea Clinton was a special correspondent who focused on stories about human interest.
Mrs Trump is at Fox News when the network reaches new levels of Dominance of reviews. Since the election day, FOX News has had the 636 most watched broadcasts in all cable news; Last month the network registered the highest rated January since its founding in 1996.
The president occasionally complains about Fox News, and he and the network have periods of ice, including a four -month piece, at the end of 2022 and early 2023, when Mr. Trump Die had just announced his candidacy for the election – did not appear on a single broadcast.
The Trump-Fox relationship is now on a fairly solid soil. Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul that controls the network, attended Mr Trump's inauguration and spent on Monday time in the Oval Office with the president. Pete Hegseeth and Sean Duffy left their on-AR FOX positions in the fall to become Mr. Trump's secretaries of defense and transport.
Mrs Trump, who grew up in Wilmington, NC, married Eric Trump in 2014. She told The Times in July that she often spoke with her father -in -law, especially about political matters and sometimes about music. (Mrs. Trump is an amateur singer.) Last year, while serving as co-chairman of the Republican Party, she promised: “Four years of shining earth when Donald Trump returns the White House.”
The current occupant of Fox News's 21:00 Saturday Slot, Brian Kilmead, will move his show to Sunday at 10 p.m.
