Lara Trump Criticized for “Weird” Video Amidst Family’s Media Struggles
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In the age of social media, public figures are constantly under scrutiny, and Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, has recently found herself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A resurfaced video shows her drinking wine while her child cries in the background. The clip, shared by Trump critic Ron Filipkowski on X (formerly known as Twitter), was captioned, “RNC Chair Lara Trump filming herself drinking wine while her kid cries was pretty weird.”
Netizens quickly weighed in on the moment. One user questioned, “Just throwing this out there… Why is Lara sharing a video of a crying child that she’s ignoring while drinking wine?” Another remarked, “What a heartless and classless b-tch Lara Trump is.” In agreement, someone else wrote, “I’d cry if Lara Trump was my mom too.”
One user slammed Lara, exclaiming, “What makes Lara Trump even more weird is that she is not only filming herself ignoring her crying baby, she uses the moment to showcase Trump-branded products. Can’t make this weird stuff up.” Others tweeted, “Filming it and posting it on social media is very, very weird.”
OK! Magazine noted the timing of this video’s resurfacing as significant, coinciding with the Trump family’s efforts to counteract negative media portrayals. Recently, Kamala Harris and the Democrats labeled Donald Trump as “weird,” prompting his supporters to dig into his family’s past for counterarguments.
In a recent interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump tried to redirect focus onto his political adversaries. Ingraham asked, “A Time magazine story over the weekend says that they’re going to use the phrase ‘just plain weird’ as their new label for Trump. I thought that was Austin’s, well, you know, motto, but just plain weird.”
Trump deflected, asserting, “Look, what they do is they take sound bites. Russia. Russia. Russia. He’s a paid associate. These people are crazy. OK, Do you know that lasted two-and-a-half years? Total exoneration. They went through millions of phone calls. They didn’t have one call to Russia. The whole thing was a con job and everything about them.”
The real estate mogul added, “Look at Biden. He said, don’t challenge me to golf. I’m a very good golfer. He’s a terrible golfer. This guy can’t hit a ball 30 yards. You saw those men down, says those policemen. They’re screaming at me, ‘Hit a shot. Hit.’ And I hit a nice seven iron right next to the pin. Biden wouldn’t do that. He couldn’t hit the ball 15 yards…”
As the former president continued his diatribe, he attempted to cast Harris in a negative light. “The whole thing is a con job. Just plain weird. Do you know who’s plain weird? She’s plain weird! She’s a weird person. Look at her past. Look at what she does. And look at what she used to say about herself. And I won’t get into it. What she used to say and who she was compared to what she said. Starting in about 2016, she became a totally different person only for political reasons.”
