Trump’s daughter-in-law offers herself up as a headliner for MAGA halftime show
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump in San Antonio, Texas on June 7, 2024 (Gage Skidmore)
President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law has offered herself up as a headliner for MAGA's alternative to the Bad Bunny halftime show during the Super Bowl, according to The Daily Beast.
Lara Trump, wife of Eric, is an erstwhile singer who has volunteered to perform at "The All American Halftime Show" presented by Turning Point USA, the ultra MAGA far-right organization founded by the late influencer Charlie Kirk, despite the fact that there has yet to be a venue or any actual performers announced.
Trump, a Fox News host and aspiring singer, has "had mixed reactions to her singing skills," the Daily Beast reports. "She has just 10,000 monthly followers on Spotify, where her most recent single, 'Eyes of God,' has been streamed only 2,731 times."
"Her most popular song on the platform is also her most controversial—a cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” released in 2023," but Petty's estate issued a cease-and-desist order after her father-in-law used the song at a rally in 2020.
Reaction to that song online was brutal, The Daily Beast says.
Anti-Trump political strategist Rick Wilson posted that the song sounded like “a wild hog and a sack of rusty cans being thrown into an industrial wood chipper.”
“I just played Lara Trump’s garbage and both my dogs ran in and begged me to shoot off fireworks instead,” comedian Tony Posnanski wrote on X.
The MAGA halftime show was announced after right-wing outrage over Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican megastar who is known for singing mostly in Spanish.
Trumps daughter-in-law issued her own condemnation on Wednesday night's episode of her show "Right View With Lara Trump."
“I don’t know what the heck the NFL was thinking… We don’t need the NFL, we don’t need any of these woke losers to perform, we can have our own performance," Trump said.
When asked by an audience member who she'd like to see perform, Trump said that in addition to country star Chris Stapleton — who has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement — and Canadian MAGA rapper Tom MacDonald, she would like to perform herself.
"She then said, 'You know what? You can throw Lara Trump in there. Yeah! That’s right,' before laughing maniacally and throwing her head back," The Daily Beast says.
"Imagine how upset people on the left would be if something like that happened. It sorta makes me wanna offer myself up. I have not been asked, but I’m gonna offer it right now!” Trump said.
