Who Is Lara Trump? 10 Things to Know About the President’s Daughter-in-Law

Eric Trump's wife recently gave birth to their second child, Carolina Dorothy.

Donald Trump is just two-years in to his first term as president, but one of his daughters-in-law is already working to ensure he’s re-elected. Lara Trump, the 36-year-old wife of Donald’s son Eric, is gearing up for the 2020 election. Here’s everything you need to know about one of the public faces of the President’s reelection committee.

She just gave birth to her second child, Carolina Dorothy.

"Family of FOUR!" Trump wrote on Instagram, along with a new family portrait with her baby girl. Carolina is Eric and Lara's second child. Their son, Eric "Luke" Trump was born in September of 2017.

The newborn is also the president's tenth grandchild; Eric's sister Ivanka Trump has three children with her husband Jared Kushner: Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore, and his brother Donald Trump Jr. has five with his ex-wife Vanessa: Donald Trump III, Spencer, Tristan, Kai, and Chloe.

"I knew I always wanted kids someday," Lara Trump told People in March of 2017..

Eric, too, has previously hinted at wanting to start a family. Back before the 2016 election, he said, "Maybe when this crazy political race is over, we'll start working on the kid thing."

She’s already at work on Trump’s re-election campaign.

Lara is Senior Advisor to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., the President’s reelection committee. In late March of 2017, news broke that she had been hired by the digital firm working on President Trump’s 2020 campaign. She serves as a senior consultant and liaison for the firm, Giles-Parscale, which the Associated Press reported is also a “data and digital provider for America First Policies, a nonprofit group started earlier this year to back Trump’s presidential agenda.” Lara’s role is apparently to work on “digital, fundraising, and merchandising efforts,” according to the Raleigh News & Observer.

Lara spoke at the New York State Republican Committee’s annual gala on June 20, 2017 and outlined her plans. “In the next seven and a half years we do have a lot of work to do, but I am truly optimistic,” she said. “I’m optimistic about the direction of the world... because we have a true leader.” She told the audience that she’s already met with National Republican Committee officials to talk strategy about the 2018 congressional midterm elections, as well as the next presidential election.

After all, she told a crowd in Wilmington, North Carolina, “2020 is going to be here before we know it.”

She has made "real news" videos on behalf of Donald Trump.

In a video posted to Donald J. Trump's facebook page, Lara, a former television producer, touts a series of flattering stories about her father-in-law. "I bet you haven’t heard about all the accomplishments the president had this week because there’s so much fake news out there," she says. (His accomplishments, according to the video, include donating his salary, low unemployment numbers, and giving out medals at the White House.) As the New York Post noted, Lara is not a government employee and these appear to be a part of Trump's reelection efforts.

Early in the Trump presidency, Lara took an active role in the White House.

Trump "has been hosting high-level meetings within the White House to push a variety of domestic policy initiatives," Newsweek reported in November of 2017. She's reportedly met with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Veteran Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe, and Representative U.S. Ron DeSantis in the hopes of getting their support for a $10-million federal initiative to establish a new nationwide Veterans Affairs program.

Her involvement may be ethically questionable; government watchdogs told Newsweek that it represented "a clear crossing of the well-established line between campaign work and public service."

Early in the Trump presidency, Lara took an active role in the White House.

Trump "has been hosting high-level meetings within the White House to push a variety of domestic policy initiatives," Newsweek reported in November of 2017. She's reportedly met with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Veteran Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe, and Representative U.S. Ron DeSantis in the hopes of getting their support for a $10-million federal initiative to establish a new nationwide Veterans Affairs program.

Her involvement may be ethically questionable; government watchdogs told Newsweek that it represented "a clear crossing of the well-established line between campaign work and public service."

"I cannot remember something like that ever happening in my time," David Gergen, who served in the White House administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, along with George Bush’s 1980 campaign, said. "This White House is being run like a family business, and campaigning is their bread and butter."

In the past, she's worked as a chef, a trainer, and a TV producer.

 

A native of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, just east of Wilmington, Lara Trump was born Lara Yunaska. She studied communications at North Carolina State University before earning a degree in pastry arts from the French Culinary Institute in New York. She’s worked as a personal trainer and as a board member of her husband’s charitable foundation, which ceased operation at the end of 2016 and has recently come under fire for a report of misused funds.

Lara also worked as a producer for Inside Edition before taking off the final two months of the 2016 presidential campaign to focus on the election. “When they’re reporting on your family on the show you work for, it’s a little challenging,” she said at the time.

Her wedding to Eric was a major event.

Lara and Eric Trump were together for six years before they wed in November 2014, in a large wedding at Donald’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida—the same setting where Donald married Melania in 2006.

 

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