Lara Trump on food, health and America's children: 'We want the truth'

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump and ma of two, volition big a new program connected Fox News Channel called "My View with Lara Trump" connected Saturday evenings, it was announced connected Wednesday. 

Trump, 42, is joined to Eric Trump and is simply a erstwhile Republican National Committee co-chair. She's besides been outspoken astir the request for improved wellness successful America. 

In an on-camera interrogation a fewer days agone with Fox News Digital, she said she's "like a batch of parents retired determination today" successful presumption of being acrophobic astir the health and well-being of her young children. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)

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"Whenever you spell to the market store oregon whenever you prepare food for your children, you truly wonder, what is it that you're feeding them? And you perceive truthful overmuch astir the information that we successful the United States don't person the aforesaid standards arsenic different countries." 

She added, "You wonder, wherefore is that? And americium I doing the champion I perchance tin for my children?"

Eric Trump and Lara Trump applaud Republican statesmanlike campaigner and now-President Donald Trump during a superior nighttime enactment astatine the Sheraton connected Jan. 23, 2024, successful Nashua, New Hampshire. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump said she believes this is simply a "big aspect" of wherefore truthful galore radical successful this state are supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arsenic HHS caput successful the Trump administration. 

"I deliberation that radical privation transparency. We privation the truth. We privation honesty," she said.

"You ever privation the aboriginal procreation to unrecorded longer and person a amended beingness than you."

"And we privation to cognize that the nutrient we're giving our kids is really going to marque them healthier and not marque them sicker."

Trump said she feels that arsenic "an American, it's precise concerning whenever you deliberation astir the information that we are the richest state successful the world. We person the astir resources astatine our fingertips." 

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And "yet, for immoderate reason," she went on, "our colonisation continues to get sicker and radical are starting to dice earlier. That is precise concerning arsenic well." 

She went on, "You ever privation the aboriginal procreation to unrecorded longer and person a amended beingness than you. And it's benignant of concerning to a batch of moms, myself included, that close present it astir doesn't consciousness similar we tin accidental that."

Trump stressed that America's parents privation their children to larn to marque "healthy choices" for themselves. 

"I deliberation that radical privation transparency. We privation the truth. We privation honesty."

"We each bash the champion we can," she said — "especially erstwhile dada comes and takes the kids for crystal cream, you know, successful the mediate of the afternoon, close earlier dinner," she added playfully. 

The sedentary lifestyle, she said, "does lend itself to being sick down the road."

Trump added that she wants her children to "appreciate [the thought of] moving their bodies."

President Donald Trump and Lara Trump beryllium with her children during the past time of the 2024 Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connected July 18, 2024.  (Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP - Getty Images)

"They are some successful a definite fig of sports," she noted. 

"They some bask being outside. And that's thing that I'm fortunate I tin prioritize surviving successful Florida — that my kids are moving constantly." 

Setting a steadfast example

Lara Trump shared that exercise is an important part of her regular routine. "I'm trying to marque definite that arsenic a mom, I americium starring by example," she said.

"I effort to exposure my kids to that arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin and anticipation that they prime up connected it, and that 1 time they'll take it for themselves erstwhile they person the quality to determine what it is they privation to do." 

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Of her children, who are present 7 and 5, Trump said, "They're enjoying each their sports close now. Jujitsu, basketball, football, gymnastics. They're having a large time."

For parents, she said, the extremity should beryllium to "establish the habits present — and you anticipation that they proceed for a lifetime." 

Born and raised successful Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Trump shared a representation of how her ain parents, "who are some inactive precise steadfast and active," acceptable a beardown example.

Lara Trump takes the signifier during a run rally for President Donald Trump astatine Madison Square Garden connected October 27, 2024, successful New York City. (Getty Images)

"When I was younger, earlier dinner, my dada would really say, 'All right, we've got a choice. You tin either bash pull-ups, you tin bash push-ups, oregon you tin ascent the rope' — which went 3 stories up to the apical of our location and backmost down, astir apt to the fearfulness of my neighbors," she added with a laugh. 

"That's however I grew up," she told Fox News Digital. "It has evidently meant that I've continued to lead an progressive lifestyle passim my full beingness — and it makes maine consciousness good. It keeps maine steadfast and hopefully keeps maine looking bully arsenic well, arsenic agelong arsenic possible."

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Regarding RFK Jr.'s propulsion for healthier foods successful America, Lara Trump mentioned immoderate of the unhealthy additives successful today's foods.

"There are things similar high-fructose maize syrup, positive the effect oils that are often talked astir … successful presumption of their unhealthiness for us."

Lara and Eric Trump, on with their children, accidental "The Pledge of Allegiance" during a rally for President Donald Trump the time earlier helium was inaugurated for a 2nd word successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 19, 2025.  (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

"I truly anticipation that we person immoderate level of transparency successful this administration, and I deliberation we will."

Said Trump astir her growing-up experiences successful North Carolina, "It's a tiny town. And due to the fact that of that, I truly deliberation that I got to beryllium a kid for overmuch longer than possibly different people. And I deliberation of it a batch present for my ain children."

"I've continued to pb an progressive manner passim my full beingness — and it makes maine consciousness good."

She said, "Whether it's the iPads, the devices, immoderate it is — our kids are truly exposed to truthful overmuch now, much truthful than I deliberation we've ever seen successful the past of this country. And they turn up truthful fast."

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Trump said she aims to springiness her children "the acquisition of their childhood, the innocence, the quality not to truly person to interest astir anything."

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"You lone get that erstwhile you're a kid, and you lone get it 1 time," she said. 

"And I consciousness grateful that I grew up with that acquisition myself."