Proof the DSA Will Destroy the Democrat Party from the Inside | Lara Trump

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0:38And the truth is that whenever you are willing to allow this very radical group of people to kind of infiltrate your party and spew out really crazy ideas, all in the name of gaining votes because you think it may help you a little bit, you kind of get what you deserve in the end.

1:04I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of My View with Laura Trump on Fox News. Laura Trump, welcome back to The Rubin Report. Thank you. Great to be with you. Always love it. Well, I always like talking to you. You're always bright and fresh and well-tanned and fit and doing a lot of stuff. What do you spend more time on? Is it the lifestyle health stuff or is it the TV stuff or is it the kids stuff? Or is it the volunteering stuff? Because I know you do a lot of that too. Yeah. I mean, gosh, I try to split it all up. I'll tell you what I don't do a lot of is the sleeping stuff. That's for sure.

1:39That's where I'm losing out, Dave. There's no doubt about it. And in the world of health and wellness, that is not a great thing. But I kind of feel like I'm probably like a lot of parents out there, right? We're all trying to do our best to be there for the kids, to be at all the events, to drop them off when we can. but I'm also simultaneously trying to do all these other things. Thank you for saying I'm tan. I always feel like I'm never tan enough, but in Florida, you can never be too tan. So I'm here for it. It's got to be tough trying to tan when you're in the Trump family because there's sort of a king of color over there.

2:15I can't compete with that. I'm not going to try to. We're different shades. It's all good. He's going to be the, I'm crowning him the champion forever. So as you know, I'm heading off the grid for August And I'm trying to do these last few shows before I head off, focusing a little more on the positive side of things that are happening right now rather than the negative. And that's generally what my outlook is. But there's always so much craziness. And we can cover some of the onslaught of the communists that are coming and all the rest of it. But when you're doing your show right now and generally when you're in the doing the political thing, not the family thing, where are you finding the moments of goodness or hope or that, you know, things will stay?

2:53I don't know that America will stay safe, free, that kind of thing. Yeah, well, I'll tell you one of my my biggest moments of joy recently is seeing, you know, the movement in the right direction. I think that this administration in particular is making not only with health and wellness, you know, with this president and our HHS secretary, Bobby Kennedy, but also for the animals. You know, I'm a huge animal lover. I have three dogs right now. If it were up to me, I'd probably have a house full. My husband would divorce me officially. But we're ending animal testing across this country. I think that's been a huge win.

3:24I was part of a team of people who helped rescue around 2 ,000 beagles from this facility in Wisconsin. in. We're working on others that currently exist because we don't need them anymore. We have advancements in this space that have made it so that we don't need to test on animals. And we're making sure that they're, you know, going to good homes. And I always like whenever you have a win on the animal front, you know, we're also trying to work on the wild mustangs out west and ensure the right things happen there. But I think overall, you know, it doesn't matter where I go in this country, and you probably get the same thing.

3:57People truly love to be American, and they love to show their their patriotism and in America's 250th year it's been awesome to travel around the country see people wearing their 250 shirts with the insignia and all the things celebrating America and and really you know at the end of the day I think we're all more alike than we are different we're all so lucky really to be born in this country and I feel like no matter where you go in America I always get that vibe from people and and it's a great thing to to keep top of mind because to your point, there are people out there who really want to change this country.

4:32But tell you what, the first 250 years has been pretty incredible. I want to make sure we see another 250. So, well, amen to that. What do you think we have to do to sell that maybe a little bit more? Because it seems we're all focused on the communist stuff and we see what's going on in New York. And even if we're just mocking it, it's like, it seems like the energy seems to be around that. And a lot of us are reacting to it. I'm trying to do what you're talking about, which is sell the positive vision of the country and hope that the 250th or 250th birthday can energize us towards the midterms.

5:08What do you think we have to do on the kind of branding side? You guys know a little something about branding when it comes to these things. Yeah, that's true. Well, look, I think, you know, foundationally, we have to go back to the basics and we have to look at our educational system, right? Because when you're teaching our children and you're teaching our upcoming generations of Americans that this is a bad place, obviously they're going to interpret it as such, and they're not going to want to fight for it and stand up for it and do all the things that maybe people of our generation have been able to do, or my parents and grandparents, et cetera.

5:41So I think it goes to the basics. I also think we have to teach everyone, and it seems like in this country, the dangers of things like socialism, you know, the ideals upon which we were founded 250 years ago are basically the antithesis of socialism. Socialism erodes all of those things, you know, individual liberty, free enterprise, personal property. You look at every facet of what socialism does to a society and it, you know, erodes all of those things. And ultimately, we will no longer be this great country. And so I think, you know, In this moment, as we're heading to the midterms, my message has continued to be, and I can't take my former RNC co-chair hat off.

6:23I'm still in that mode right now. I remember how hyped up everybody was in 2024 because people really felt like that was an election that meant something, that it really was going to determine the direction of our country. I'm going to suggest that 2026 is equally as important. If you got involved and you got out and voted, if you volunteered, if you worked as a poll watcher or poll worker, I'm going to ask for people to do the same thing in 2026 because it's not just good enough to have Donald Trump as the president. He needs a Congress who's going to ensure that the things that we want to see happen for our country over the next two years are going to be able to happen.

7:04And without that, Dave, we know what's going to happen. We know that not only are they going to try and impeach him, which is probably day number one. And they're going to do all the crazy things that they've already said. And this president will get nothing great accomplished for America. And man, are we lucky to live in a time when Donald Trump is our president. So I'm going to say everybody get out and vote. And I want to encourage everybody to take this election, these midterms as seriously as we did two years ago. How do you think he's feeling about everything right now? I mean, I think he's he's always cautiously optimistic.

7:38You know, it's I think in his world, you have to be an optimist. You have to see the bright side of things. You have to think about being victorious because otherwise, you know, you listen to all the things going on out there. Otherwise, it could drive you crazy. And I think he knows that he really has done some incredible things for this country and the world, quite frankly. There's no doubt about it. And I think we just need to continue messaging that. And I think he understands he's the best messenger the party has, quite frankly. And so he's I'm sure going to be out doing a lot of rallies.

8:12I think he's going to get as involved as he possibly can. But I think he's I think he's feeling relatively good about things. You know, obviously, we lost Senator Lindsey Graham earlier this week, and he was an incredible ally for your father-in-law. And it was an interesting relationship in some in some ways because a certain portion of the base really didn't like Lindsey. but it was very clear that your father-in-law liked him. Can you talk a little bit about how he manages some of that stuff, the interpersonal stuff, with kind of the base and the overall populace and how he just, because it seems to me he just does what he thinks is right.

8:48And you can agree or disagree with it. But I think this thing with Lindsay, this friendship that they had, despite it seemingly at odds with a portion of the base, was a good example of that. Yeah, well, Lindsay was an interesting guy because he was able to deal with both sides of the aisle to a certain extent, which is hard to come by these days. And that's an important ally to have for sure. I continue to think back to when Donald Trump initially ran for the presidency in 2016. If you recall, Lindsey Graham came out very much against him. He was trash talking him quite extensively until Donald Trump went to a rally and gave everybody Lindsey Graham's phone number.

9:31If people remember that moment, Lindsey had to get a brand new cell phone number. He did a whole video on how to destroy your cell phone because he got more notoriety for his phone number being given out by Donald Trump than he had for anything in his tenure as a senator from South Carolina, which is hilarious. But I think you're right. Whenever you look at the president and the way he deals with things, he does what he thinks is right. And and he is willing to sit down with people. I mean, you know, Republicans, of course, but even people on the opposite side of the aisle or even people who previous presidents, you know, when we're talking about world events like, you know, Kim Jong-un of North Korea, who previous presidents have said, oh, we're not going to do that.

10:12He's saying, well, listen, if we can make a deal here, if something good can happen for the American people, I'm willing to sit down. I'm willing to have those conversations. I'm willing to kind of cross this bridge that other people haven't. And I think that's a really incredible feature to have in a president. It takes a lot of guts to do things like that because you know you're going to hear from a certain group of people for those things. But at the end of the day, he's never cared about what is politically advantageous for him. He's genuinely cared about what he thinks is the right thing to do for the future of the country.

10:45Yeah, that's why to me, it's like if the Republicans can just hold the House and Senate two years of him being able to not think about elections and just do everything that he's promised. And he's doing so many things at once. It's like that that actually could reset all this stuff. Let's jump back a sec because you mentioned the socialists and the communists and obviously everyone knows what's going on in New York City and everything else. What do you make of overall what's happening with the Democrat Party right now? Like, do you think the moderates, to whatever extent there are moderates, if we're going to call Hakeem Jeffries, let's say, or I don't know, Newsom or Booker, if they are moderates in that ecosystem, do they have any chance to stand up against what's coming?

11:29I don't think so. I think at this point the rot has been too pervasive within their party. And I think they needed to stand up a long time ago and they weren't willing to do it. And the truth is that whenever you are willing to allow this very radical group of people to kind of infiltrate your party and spew out really crazy ideas, all in the name of gaining votes because you think it may help you a little bit, you kind of get what you deserve in the end. And unfortunately for the Democrats, look, they've had zero leadership, right? They had four years of Joe Biden in the White House, and arguably that should have been their leader.

12:07He's the president of the United States. And yet he was completely absent. I mean, we don't he didn't even know where he was half the time. Right. So they had a lack of leadership at the top. They had really no policy points as a party other than anything against Donald Trump. Let's do the opposite of what he says. And the things he wanted to do for the country and that he was talking about in that election were very basic, like securing our border, bringing companies, you know, jobs back to our country and having a flourishing economy. And so to be on the opposite side of these things, they really box themselves in and they have nowhere to go.

12:44And so they had they were dead in the water. And the only momentum now that they have clearly are with these socialists. And so I don't know that you can put the toothpaste back in the tube. I think that they have kind of kowtowed to these people for far too long. And unfortunately, their party is in a complete and total mess because of it. Do you think that ultimately pushes guys like Fetterman and maybe Josh Shapiro to the Republicans? Like for those two, I could see I can see the move. I can't really I can't see it for, you know, let's say Newsom and Ro Khanna and the rest of the others. But for a couple of the guys, I can see a pretty I mean, it's what I did 10 years ago.

13:21So I can see a pretty easy transition for those guys. Yeah, I mean, the crazier things have happened. Jim Justice of West Virginia was a Democrat. Now he's a Republican. You know, you have multiple situations where this has happened before. And it's because if you look at the policies of the Republican Party right now, a lot of like Bill Clinton era Democrats would become, you know, they look like Republicans today. It's crazy how far that party has shifted. So, yeah, potentially. Now, you ask people like Fetterman, would he ever, you know, kind of switch parties or anything? He says, no, no, no, I'm a Democrat, I'm a Democrat.

13:58But he's a Democrat of a different era. He's not a Democrat of today's Democrat party. And I think that's what a lot of the country is going to have to grapple with. You know, we have, as we're talking about these midterms coming up, you know, people really need to look at what these people are proposing for America. Don't blindly vote for a party just because that's the party you have always voted with. You really need to take a serious look at what they want to do. And again, their policies really just completely erode our society and take America in a really frightening direction. And I think that most people, if they're being honest, I mean, look, you look at polling, Dave, most Americans do not believe that socialism is the way America should go.

14:42So with that in mind, I think that's something else that we have to be very vocal about as we head towards November. Yeah. Unfortunately, there's just no adults in the room with these guys anymore. And here we are. Let me ask you something. And I sort of know the answer to this because I knew, well, I knew Don Jr. pretty well in New York from before politics. and I knew Eric a little bit before politics, but how personal does what's happening in New York City feel to you guys? And I lived there for 20 years before that. My grandparents and great-grandparents, we had family, at one time, we traced my family back to 1920s.

15:14We had almost 100 family members in New York City. I have one cousin in the five boroughs left. That's it. And it's partly because of migration and people move on. But how personal is it to you what has happened in New York City? I mean, that name behind you, It was all over the skyline. It's still in some places, not as many. Well, I would say that, look, Donald Trump and the Trump name transformed the skyline of Manhattan. And I would say that that, you know, New York City made Donald Trump and our family really who he is and who we all are. And so it is very personal. And it's it's so upsetting to see a city that I mean, gosh, I remember, Dave, when I moved to New York City.

15:56I moved in 2008. I got in my car from Wilmington, North Carolina by myself, drove alone 13 hours, cried the whole way, by the way, terrified, you know, all the things. But I said to myself, I'm going to the greatest city on earth. And you know, the whole thing, if you make it there, you can make it anywhere. And it's just a different place now. And I don't know that the same, way that I thought about it back in that time will be able to be said by people in the future. And so it's really sad to see. And I think no one wants to see New York City come back more than Donald Trump himself. It's why he's been willing to sit down with mom, Donnie.

16:38It's why he has extended an olive branch to a certain extent to say like, hey, if I can help in some way. I'm here to help as president. He loves New York City. Our entire family does. At the time I lived in New York, I thought it was the greatest place on earth. And sadly, you can't say that these days. So like so many others, you guys did the migration down here to Florida. Do you sense that if we can't heal this stuff, that it's just going to be the states kind of subtly or softly going their separate ways? That if you live in Florida, it will just fundamentally be very different than if you live in Cali or New York.

17:16I mean, that's already happened in some way. Yeah. No, that's what I was going to say. I feel like it already is, unfortunately, because people who can move have moved and typically they have taken their, you know, their voting and their policies and the way they view life and the way you should live life with them. And those people, sadly, who don't like the way things are going in places like New York, Illinois, California, who are stuck there, I feel horribly for. But look, businesses leave. People with the ability to leave have left and they're continuing to leave. It's why you've seen congressional seats lost in New York and California over the past several years.

17:56Guess where they've been gained? Florida and Texas, because people just don't want to live like that. But I think that's inevitable. I think that the more people who get fed up with it, they're going to leave and they're going to take all the way they want to live life with them. And that's just sadly how it's going to be. How do you balance? We talked about this once before a little bit, but I'm curious if your answer has changed at all. How do you balance some of the mommy part of this, that you're raising kids as a public figure, father-in-law is the president of the United States, trying to inoculate them from some of the woke stuff?

18:29I mean, it's a lot of things, obviously. Being a businesswoman outside of all of that TV personality, there's a lot going on here. There's a lot going on here. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. And you've got those killer freaking abs. I see them on Instagram all the time. Come on. Thank you. You know, it's funny because the first term, obviously my children were both born whenever my father-in-law was in office first term. And so we didn't have to think about this. But it has been different this time because they kind of understand what's going on. And it's been fun, though, because we've been able to take them to certain events and expose them to parts of history that I think are really amazing.

19:10And now they'll have a memory of it. They'll actually have a memory of their grandfather as president of the United States. But, you know, for the two of us, for me and Eric, I think it's been really important to just raise them like normal kids. I mean, my kids right now are in a very standard summer camp. My kids, you know, I try to ensure that they play all the same sports and they're in all these different teams and gymnastics and this, that and the other as every other kid. I don't want them treated differently. I want them out there making friends, doing normal kid things. You know, to live in Florida is the greatest because, you know, your kids can just basically be outside all the time.

19:49I think that's how a lot of us grew up. And so we do the best we can. But look, the inevitable questions come up. the inevitable, oh, my friend's mom says this about grandpa. You know what? And you just have to do the best in the moment and be as honest with them as you can. And, you know, time will tell. Check back with me in 20 years. I'll let you know how we did. I feel like you have some sort of remedy for the mosquitoes in the summer down here. I feel you have some sort of special mom thing. Do you? It's probably worse in Miami. You're a little further north than us, but do you got anything?

20:23I feel like you must have something. I would love to say I do. It's just you got to keep moving. When you stop, that's when they get you. If you're on the run, then they can't get you. So I just try to keep moving, continual movement, and it's harder for them to get you. Yeah. You guys also do a ton of charity work, and you've raised funds for all sorts of things, mostly, as far as I understand, for pediatric cancer. And I've been to some events with you. What's the latest over there? What can we do to help? We'll put some links down below. That's so nice. Yeah, well, Curativity is the foundation, and it once upon a time started as the Eric Trump Foundation.

21:01And we have donated tens of millions of dollars through all of these incredible events we host throughout the year to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. And Dave, you've been so generous to come to our events. Thank you. I don't think there's a more important cause out there. The words, your child has cancer, are probably the most terrifying words that any parent can ever hear. and we want to live in a world where no parent ever hears that. And so we've built out an ICU and surgery center at St. Jude. We now have an entire floor that we just dedicated, gosh, three or four months ago. We were there in Memphis to open this entire floor.

21:40It's where every child will pass through as they enter the hospital, as they're being treated at St. Jude. And listen, I think it's one of those things that I have to give full credit to my husband for. At 22 years old, he had this idea that life had been great to him and he wanted to give back. And so he started this. And, you know, here we are 20 years later, actually. This is our 20-year anniversary. And it's been incredible. Yeah. Is that the crazy part to you that, you know, they say all these things? I mean, I know you've been through this for years, so probably not at this point. But, like, they say so many things about the family and everything else.

22:15And, you know, I was at a creativity event at Mar-a-Lago and both of you spoke. but it was just like how can we help people and we're here to raise funds to help people and you've raised an awful lot of money if I'm not mistaken Tony Robbins bought one shoe for I think$500 ,000 that night they were selling a pair he's so good but they were selling a pair of the Trump shoes yes the gold ones and I'm sitting I was literally sitting next to Tony I don't even know that he would want this told but he's such a great guy I'm going out on a limb here they wanted to sell the pair for like $250 ,000. I think he bought one shoe for like$450 ,000 or$500 ,000 and let someone else buy the others.

22:54Almost a million dollars for literally a pair of shoes. And of course, it's not about the shoes. But that they say all these crazy things about you juxtaposed with what you guys are actually doing. It's just a strange reality. No, it's crazy. And that's the thing that I think most people who have never found themselves in a position like this can't fully appreciate. There's so many people out there. My gosh, you see it a lot of it, David, as we're in this moment right now. This Charlie Kirk pretrial hearing has just ended last week. And I keep thinking about all these crazy conspiracy theories thrown out there.

23:32All it takes is one person to lie about you one time out there. And those people who hate you are going to grab onto that and run with it. They don't care whether it's true or false or whatever, or how damaging or hurtful it might be to you. And sadly, that's the reality of the era we're in with clickbait and people really just not caring how damaging or defamatory something they're saying about you is out there. And then, you know, once you're kind of on the public space and a public person, then the onus is very high to prove that there was malice and take it to a court of law. And so you live in this world.

24:11But I'll tell you, you know, as you know, we all have found that it really doesn't matter what people say about you out there. Those who really know you are the opinions who matter the most. And we are surrounded by incredible friends and family. And we're so lucky to have all of them. And ultimately, people can say all the crazy things out there. We'll still keep raising money for kids with cancer. We'll still keep saving dogs. We'll still keep doing the right thing every single day so they can say all they want. You mentioned our friend Charlie. Are you surprised about how a certain portion of the right, particularly the kind of very online portion, just went so crazy after his assassination?