Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara leaves fans stunned by transformation & posts sweet vid from grandkids before debate
LARA Trump’s transformation has floored fans as the former president’s daughter-in-law shared a sweet video of her grandchildren minutes before Tuesday night’s debate.
The former television producer, 41, amazed fans online with her lavish looks as she accompanied the Trump family to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for the presidential debate.
Lara praised Donald Trump on NBC News minutes before the presidential debate started, saying her father-in-law knows precisely what to do on Tuesday evening.
“Donald Trump knows exactly what he needs to do,” Lara said.
“This is about talking about how the American people’s lives were while he was in office and how their lives are right now, and he has to make sure people are reminded how Kamala Harris has had the opportunity for nearly four years to do a whole host of different things.
“I think the major question is, why do you need to wait? Why aren’t you doing these things now?
“And he has to kind of expose Kamala Harris for who she really is,” she added.
“Because America, by and large, does not know a lot about her, she’s only done one interview thus far.
Minutes before the debate started, Lara posted a photo of her two kids wishing their grandfather luck.
“Have a good time at the debate tonight. We love you grandpa,” Trump’s grandchildren said in the sweet video.
Lara has become a constant by her father-in-law’s side in recent months as she takes a more prominent role on the campaign trail.
In the lead-up to the debate, she also championed his performance in the last debate with Joe Biden, which eventually led to the current president dropping out of the race to be replaced by Harris.
“He took it on June 27 in the debate against Joe Biden,” Lara told NBC.
“I think if anybody had any question how Donald Trump can perform in a debate that was a knock-out punch, Joe Biden is no longer the nominee for the Democrats I would say specifically because of that debate.
“I think he’s going to be cool calm and collected. I think everyone is going to be very impressed,” she added.
Debate night highlights…
- Donald Trump and Kamala Harris engaged in a fiery debate where, at times, the former president seemed enraged and frustrated.
- Vice President Harris tried to get under Trump’s skin by bringing up his ties to Project 2025, his criminal conviction in New York, his rally crowd sizes, and the various indictments he’s facing.
- Trump went off script when he repeated wild conspiracies about immigrants eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.
- “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump said as Harris laughed and shook her head.
- In one instance, Trump seemingly threw his running mate, JD Vance, under the bus and blamed him for miscommunication about his stance on a national abortion ban.
- Despite his subpar moments, Trump dubbed his performance “his best debate ever.”
- A Harris spokesperson called for a second debate in October.
Lara also told NBC that Trump would relish “having the opportunity to directly engage with the American people and truely call Kamala Harris out for her radical past.”
“She seemed to change her tune very recently on a lot of things and it does beg the question who is Kamala Harris,” Lara asked.
“For the future of this country, I think if he lays out what he did while he was president for four years and what he plans to do to rectify a lot of the damage that quite frankly Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have caused in this country, I think is a great success ad I think we’r egoing to see that happen tonight.”
Who is Lara Trump?
Lara Trump has co-chaired the Republican National Committee since March 2024.
Prior to her political career, she studied at North Carolina State University and the International Culinary Center.
She married Eric Trump on November 8, 2014, at her father-in-law’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The couple has since welcomed two children.
The RNC co-chair was born Lara Yunaska on October 12, 1982, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Lara’s NBC appearance wowed fans who had also praised her appearances during the Republican National Convention in July.
She has co-chaired the Republican National Committee since March and played a main role in the organization of the convention that saw her father-in-law be formally confirmed as the GOP nominee for president.
Lara donned a blue dress at the highly-publicized event in Milwaukee that followed the July 13 shooting of former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The presidential candidate, 78, was also present after having sustained injuries to his right ear during the assassination attempt.
Lara has had a monumental rise the Republican party in recent years.
Michele Merrell, a Republican state committeewoman for Broward county in Florida, told the BBC that since she became co-chair, Lara has made a “world of difference” at the RNC.
“The fundraising is going through the roof… we were not doing very well before in that,” she said.
“The change in leadership has been all the difference. It’s reignited the party, it really has.”
Earlier this year, Lara delighted fans when she told CPAC attendees “it’s always darkest before the Don, that’s D.O.N.”
“It’s time for us to take back our country,” she added, as she called on Republicans to “fight fire with dynamite” in the upcoming election.
She called for Republicans to adapt their voting tactics and turn to early voting to “compete” with the Democrats.
Admitting that the Trumps had been “naive” in 2015 about the political realities of the US, she said, “I believe that Donald Trump was made for such a time as this.”
Lara and Eric Trump married on November 8, 2014, at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and have since welcomed two kids.
The couple’s first child, son Eric “Luke” Trump, Jr., was born on September 12, 2017, followed by daughter Carolina Dorothy Trump on August 20, 2019.
Lara was born Lara Yunaska on October 12, 1982, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and studied at North Carolina State University and the International Culinary Center.
In 2021, Lara and Eric became the latest members of their famous family to relocate to South Florida by snapping up a $3.2 million mansion in Palm Beach.
The home is located at the Trump National Golf Club gated community in Jupiter and is situated just doors down from Eric’s older brother, Donald Trump Jr.