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The president's daughter-in-law hosts a weekly show on Fox News. To call it “propaganda” is too kind.

Take the canceled Fox Business program of the late Lou Dobbs, of whom Fox’s president once said, “The North Koreans do a more nuanced show.” Now move the show to Fox News, sub out Dobbs for President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara, and give her a guest list culled from the leading lights of the Trump administration, the MAGA movement, and the Republican Party. You’ve just described My View with Lara Trump, the ludicrous propaganda program Fox airs on Saturday nights.Lara Trump previously worked as a well-compensated senior adviser on her father-in-law’s 2020 presidential campaign, then became a Fox contributor, and then co-chair of the Republican National Committee during his 2024 run. She took her latest trip through the Fox-Trump revolving door shortly after President Trump’s inauguration when the network announced her hiring and forthcoming show, which debuted in February.It should go without saying that it is wildly unethical for a purported news outlet to turn over network airtime to a family member of the president so she can relentlessly promote his agenda and routinely interview his top officials — but Fox executives have apparently given up even the pretense that the network is something more than Trump’s personal megaphone.Everyone involved gets something out of the blatantly corrupt relationship. Fox gets a high-profile host with the most celebrated last name in GOP politics who can attract viewers to a typically weak timeslot, while the president, if he’s watching, gets a weekly hour of uninterrupted adulation. Lara Trump gets money in her pocket — and a platform she can use to lay groundwork for a potential run for North Carolina’s open Senate seat in 2026, where she is reportedly the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. Fox apparently paid for a camera crew to follow Lara Trump and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler as they went door-to-door talking to local business owners in what Trump described as “my hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina.” The resulting segment, for the latest edition of Fox’s My View with Lara Trump, aired days after the president floated his daughter-in-law as a potential candidate.And the program’s guests get the opportunity to demonstrate their loyalty to the president by lavishing him with praise in softball interviews performed by a member of his family. In a few short months, Lara Trump has sat down with the Republican leaders of both houses of Congress, several top White House aides including a “rare” interview with chief of staff Susie Wiles, a dozen Cabinet-level administration officials, and a slew of MAGA stalwarts like Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White and Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk. Such guests have used the platform to tell the president’s daughter-in-law that they are “so blessed” to have the “great honor” of serving in the administration of someone they say is a “powerful leader” and “peacemaker in chief” who “shines in a way that no one else in this world ever shines” and whose “instincts are off the charts good.” According to them, he “truly puts America first in every scenario” and is “thinking about our children and what they're going to face” as he strives to “save this Republic.”The borderline parodic nature of Trump's program is perhaps best captured by the on-screen text aired during interviews with administration officials (pictured in each section below). Sample chyrons include: “Trump admin takes the world stage by storm”; "Blair: Trump’s energy driving White House momentum”; “Sec Hegseth: Trump puts Americans first”; and “Trump’s vision to 'restore the republic.’”The program is a testament to how the Trump family, Fox News, the GOP, and the Trump administration are inseparable organs of the same body. The New York Post reported before its premiere that Lara Trump scoffed at ethical concerns about her position, instead describing her family connections as “an asset” that would allow her “to reach out to so many of these folks and have them sit down for a more personal interview.” And indeed, the program’s first episode featured interviews with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in which the guests “fawned over the president, making sure to stress just how supportive he is of them as women,” as one reviewer put it.And of course it wouldn’t be a Trump story without a whiff of corruption. Lara Trump devoted her March 15 episode to the subject of cryptocurrency as “digital gold” and suggested that “reinventing our economy, utilizing every weapon we have, might just be the best thing for our wallet.” Her guests, who included top economic advisers from her father-in-law's administration, offered viewers tips on how they could start investing in crypto themselves (“buy a third of a Bitcoin”). But while Lara Trump claimed to think that “Bitcoin and crypto are a foreign language,” at no point did she disclose her family’s sizable crypto holdings.Here’s a sampling of the program's absurd propaganda since then (all transcripts via Nexis database):

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