Lara Trump
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
We are the richest nation in the world, and for some reason, we seem to be the sickest nation in the world. It's not about politics. It's about making America healthy again. It's about exposing people to what's been going on.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It's a bit of tough love for sure. But I think we're all trying to do our best with the kids these days. And I think we're all learning as we go because it's all so new. I feel like we're existing in a new space and there isn't much to guide us. We're having to figure it out, but I know what worked for me.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I know that, you know, sports, um, being outside, being away from, um, I remember my dad coming home when I was a kid and, and giving me the old, I don't care what you do, just get outside.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Oh, my God. It's insane.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
rogue that we can't even let our kids play outside anymore this is the basics like you i always want them doing active things outside away from from screens and i talked to so many of my friends and i'm like what is your kid into thinking they're gonna give me like a basketball answer yeah and they're like what what's the i don't even know the game it's one of these online games where you like hook up with other people in different places and oh yeah it's kind of minecraft yeah i don't even know one of the other big one babe
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I don't even know what it's called, but I know they're all doing it. And I'm like, God, it's just so different. And you think about the long-term effects. What does that mean for these kids who are on a screen or looking at a screen hunched over? And I don't know, all of it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
How about when you used to have to call someone's house? and ask for them on the phone. Oh, and the parents pick up the phone. And the parents pick up the phone.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
That's like a lost art. That's a lost thing. I remember my parents saying, okay, when you call someone's house and the mom or dad answers, you say, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This is Laura. May I please speak to Jessica? You know, like there was a protocol you followed. No one does that anymore, Gary. Do people even have phones at home anymore? I don't think so.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And eye contact when you shake hands.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I feel like my father-in-law probably subscribes to the same thing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
The food was delicious. Yeah, it was just whole eggs.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You didn't use powdered eggs for this one?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
With our black and white ensembles here.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, I think whenever you are in those very high pressure situations that you're
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
i hope most people never have to endure but i think every every family goes through something we all have whatever it is and i think that it's those moments that can either tear you apart or bring you closer together and i think for us it brought us closer together actually because when you feel like you're kind of alone and singled out and everyone seems to kind of be coming after you
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
you really turn to those people who are directly around you, who you know you can count on, who under, you know, very few people, thank God, who will ever understand the things that our family endured. But because of that, not only did it bring me closer with Eric, you know, as a couple, but I think our whole family, it brought closer together, you know?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I know. This is an added benefit. We're cold because we did a cold plunge, and we're burning calories because we're wearing our weighted vests. So it's going great.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Because there is something that is very unique to feeling like you've been targeted and unfairly targeted and to have so many lies told about all of you. Sometimes you just have to turn to one another and say, well, we know the truth and we know we'll get through this and we're here to support one another. And I really think that that's what we all did.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I think coming out on the other side, we're all so much stronger for it. And I think about it a lot. in terms of a workout analogy, really, which is that if you work out enough and you lift heavy weights and you do things that kind of hurt when you're doing them, you'll get a callus. But when you come back and you try to lift that weight again, the callus is there to protect you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And it actually allows you to do more than you could previously do. And so in some ways, maybe all of this has been a blessing in disguise because I look at my father-in-law and I look at Specifically, the person he's turned into as our 47th president, I don't know that he would have been as strong as he is right now if he hadn't endured all the things that he did.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I would say that for all of us.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You look at him like this is terrible.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, which is crazy. And most people out there just don't understand that. Just because you read something out there about someone on these obscure websites or news outlets, and I have to put that in air quotes because... Yeah. Doesn't mean that it's actually true about them.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But, you know, I think for all of us, we very quickly realized that the people whose opinions matter are the people who actually know us. And it's very easy to get, you know, behind a screen and feel safe and type something nasty about somebody. But I do think it's made all of us that much stronger.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Amazing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, you probably won't like my initial answer, which is I probably don't sleep as much as I should. But I do. Actually, let me ask you this. I'll ask you a question and then I want to answer your other one. Does everyone need the same amount of sleep?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I know you were because I got a video of you working out.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Absolutely. But I told you, I do a cold plunge on my own, but mine is like two degrees colder than yours, which you told me isn't wholly necessary. So maybe we can take it up.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
So, okay. So I don't feel so bad. So, but I, I probably don't sleep enough, but look like I think a lot of moms out there, there is so much that falls on us and we always feel responsible. I always feel like I want to be the one to do whatever it is for my kids. And I'm lucky that I can have people help me that I, cause I can't be in three or four places at one time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I have to outsource sometimes, but every opportunity I get, I'm, I'm there for my kids. I am typically the last one to go to sleep in my house and the first one to wake up in my house.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I want to be the one to do whatever it is for my kid. Gosh, how much easier would it be if you could feel great about sending your kid to school and having the school lunch there, not poisoning them.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, I know. I'm the worst. But I would say that I always go back to the analogy of sort of what we hear on the airplane, which is that whenever there's an emergency situation, you want to put your mask on first before you assist others. If you can't take care of yourself and actually do right by you, you're going to be no good to anyone else. Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Anyone who's spent enough time around me will tell you if I don't get a workout in on day two or three, I'm going to probably be miserable to be around. Ask Eric Trump how that goes.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Please somebody find her somewhere she can go for a run or something. But I think that once it works into your routine, and they say it takes two weeks to make a habit. Once it works into your routine, you get used to it and you need it. And for me, I need that. And sometimes that's the only time of the day I get left alone.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It's the only time I'm not going to answer an email. Whatever it is, I am focused on me. And even if it's a short amount of time, 30 minutes, I take that 30 minutes for me because it's important. I'm taken care of so that I can take care of everybody else.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It's gotta be in the morning. Oh my God, if I waited tonight to do any, absolutely not.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
That's a long time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yes. Yes. But it was awesome. What a fun day.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
My husband would not survive this by the way.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm wearing my weighted vest. This is not a fashion statement, by the way. It is fashionable. It's very fashionable.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, first I'll tell you my cold plunge journey is an interesting one because I'll give my husband full credit for introducing me to it. And I was like, I think a lot of women terrified of cold plunging. I was like, that sounds awful. Who on earth would shove their bodies in water? Purposely in cold water. Because I'm a person who operates generally a little chilled.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
If I can, I like to crank the heat up a little bit. I run cold, except at night, and I'm always hot at night. And I like that I'm doing the right things by bringing the temperature down in the room. That said, my husband first started cold plunging. I don't remember who introduced him to it. And I was like, all right, how hard could this be?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm just going to psych myself up and I'm going to go do it. And the first time I tried it, I probably lasted 15 seconds. And I thought it was going to, yeah. I thought I was going to hyperventilate.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I know, you're almost through the bad part. And I felt like I couldn't breathe and I was going to hyperventilate and die. And I was like, oh my God, because that's your body's natural reaction to being in water that it knows it can't survive in. That's clearly. So that happened. I gave it about a two month window of time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I started actually researching a little bit and doing my own kind of digging and seeing what was out there. And I was like, okay, so this makes sense that at 15 seconds, I thought it was going to die in there. And I freaked out and got out. And so I finally went back and my husband at this time is doing like five minutes or something in the cold plunge. And I was like, God, okay.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Oh, yeah. I went to culinary school. I'm a pastry chef, technically.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I got to do this. And so I understood that if I just suffered through the first 20 seconds, it wasn't going to get worse than that. And I did.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah. Well, you know what? It's funny because I graduated from college. And this is a time, like I graduated in 2005, not to age myself. Oh, my God. I was the youngest ever to graduate. But I graduated at a time where the job market wasn't great. And I left college and I found that I was kind of doing everything. odd jobs. I was a waitress. I was a bartender.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Um, but yeah, I mean, I just, I just got through it and look, I, I have, um, I've been an athlete my whole life. So an athlete, mine, you just tell yourself you're going to do something. So I got through it and all of a sudden I'm like at three minutes and I was like, oh, well this wasn't so bad after all.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And then you get kind of addicted to it and then you crave that feeling afterward because you feel amazing after you get out of a cold plunge.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so, I mean, look, I love doing that. Do I have time for it every day? No. Right. But I would say that I try to do it three days a week. Every day, though, I do try to fit in some form of exercise. And that's generally the first thing I do. Now, sometimes it'll come after I get my kids to school, but most days it's very early before anybody's up.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I try to move my body. Some days it's weightlifting. Some days it's CrossFit. Some days it's swimming, running. I do triathlons. I think you used to do triathlons.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so I just like to incorporate whatever the day will allow me. I have more time. I can fill it with an activity, with exercise for sure. But sometimes it's 30 minutes.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I do whatever it is. And that is 100% necessary for my day.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, thank you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Hey, I mean, to a certain extent. So I worked for Fox. Gosh, how many years ago was it now? I worked for Fox from twenty twenty one, like January of twenty one until November of twenty twenty two when my father in law announced he was running for president again.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I was a part-time personal trainer doing all these different things. And I was also very interested in cooking and baking. And I would watch like the food network all the time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so. And I really enjoyed working there. And I was a contributor, which means I went on all the different shows. I didn't have my own show. But I was, you know, commentated and this, that, and the other. And I really enjoyed it. And everybody treated me very nicely there. And then we had the election. We won the election.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I had to decide exactly what my life was going to be on the other side of that election. I knew I didn't want to remain as RNC co-chair. In fact, that was a job that initially I said no to.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Oh, yeah. I mean, who wants to be responsible for all of it during the most critical, heavy election of our lifetime? My father-in-law called and asked me to do this job last January. He asked if I would run for RNC co-chair, and I immediately was like, no.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, you listen, he, he called and asked me to do it. And I was like, you really think I'm the right person for this job? I've got these kids. I have all these other professional things I'm working on. I had a clothing line. I was a fitness clothing line. I was working on a documentary. I'm working on all these different things happening.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I was like, I don't, I don't think this is right for me. And he goes, okay, no pressure. It's gotta be you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But honey, you think about it, you let me know. And I was like, Oh my gosh. But it was really at night talking my kids in bed that night. I looked at my kids and I was like, you know, I never want to look back and say, what if, What if I would have said yes to this? What if I was the person in this role? And it could have made a difference. And so obviously, we all know what happened.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I ended up as RNC co-chair. But I told my father-in-law, I said, I'm not going to stay there after the election. I will get us through this election. I will work as hard as I can to ensure integrity in our electoral process, fair election, all the things necessary. And then I'm going to resign as co-chair, which I did. And so then that laid out my next chapter, what am I going to do?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so it's one of those funny things where I said, I feel like I want to get out of Wilmington, North Carolina, my hometown and move somewhere else. And culinary school in New York City was the way I got out.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
There was an open Senate seat here in the state of Florida.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so Marco Rubio had been tapped to be Secretary of State. He's been a senator here in Florida for a long time. And his seat would be vacant. That seat is appointed, you know, the person who fills it by the governor, Ron DeSantis. Right. I really seriously thought about that. And a lot of people were pushing me to do that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And then I, I did get a call from Fox one day and it just had a nice chat. And in that midst of that chat, it was like, well, listen, if this is something you're interested in, we'd love to have you back. And I don't know, maybe, you know, we just talked and threw around ideas and it ended up that this is the path I chose. I'm very blessed, 9 p.m. every Saturday night.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I have my own show, which is, Gary, it's crazy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm like, what is going on here? I'll tell you. Like the wildest one for me, the first show we had, which thank you for pointing out, it was hugely successful, almost two and a half million people tuned into it. But I was getting ready to go over and do these interviews with the press secretary, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general of the United States.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I am standing in the White House looking in a mirror. And I was like, oh, my God, I had this moment where I was like, help. How did this happen? Because I grew up like probably so many people in this country. And I could have never in my wildest dreams guessed that I would do all of this. But the show itself is different. It's different than anything else people will find on Fox News.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I validated my choice to drive alone to New York, to move to a place I knew no one who, you know, where I'd only been to visit like once or twice ever in my life by going to culinary school. So technically I'm a pastry chef too. Don't ask Eric Trump when I bake him stuff.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
The news cycle's nuts. It is crazy every day, 24-7. It's just constant, constant, constant. And so for me, I was like, you know, I want to approach things a little differently. And I want people... to see the folks whose names are splashed across their television and headlines every day. We really get to know who they are to a certain extent.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so you go a little bit deeper and I wanna do episodes on Maha, Making America Healthy Again, which is what we're doing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, because these are the things that are shaping our country and our world right now. These are the people and the movements that are changing the country. And I think it's very exciting. So I'm trying to get deeper into that and really expose people to my view of those things. Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Okay, can I tell you? And this was actually nuts to me and a little bit scary for me. Whenever I first sat down after this was officially going to happen, I was going to have this show. They said, all right, what do you want your show to be about? And I was like, oh, so no one tells me. I just-
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
decide this on my own okay and they said you know what whatever you want to do we want you to do the show has to be yours that's why people are going to tune in that's why people are going to want to watch it's got to be yours so you make it what you want which is a little bit scary for me because now because now you're the programmer gary yeah yeah you're like i just got my own show it's like the same thing with my podcast you know i determine who comes on who doesn't come on and the
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm terrified most of the time. No, because look, obviously anything I put my name on, I want to give 110% to. I want to deliver a great product, whether it's as co-chair of the RNC or whether it's as host of my own show on Fox. And so it's been really amazing that they were just kind of like, yeah, whatever you want to do, just do it. And I was like, okay. So I'm doing it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
This is pre-Maha.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
This is a long time ago. But it's fun. You know what I loved about it? It was actually the artistic nature of it because there isn't artistry in baking.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
They've also been taught that, too.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I think it's hard for some people to think outside the box and, you know, that they were taught, which is like, OK, for this, we do this. There's just a direct line of and there's no ability to think outside of that. I think for some physicians, not all of them, but for some. And I think it's easy to write a script for somebody. It's not easy to sit somebody down and say, like, listen.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
If you really want to take your health seriously, if you really want to feel better for the rest of your life, then these are the changes you need to make. People always, you know, they want to just write something down and help me feel better right now.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
cooking, you can sprinkle a little of this, a little of that. There's a precision and an artistry in how beautifully you present your pastries.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
We probably shouldn't at this point. It's interesting because we live in this information age. We have access via our phones, via computers, whatever it is, to anything we want to get at a moment's notice. But it doesn't feel like we have all of the information when it comes to our health.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It actually feels like a lot of times people have put blinders on us and said like, this is the only way you can look at it. You can't look over in this area and you can't look over there. It's just gotta be this one area. And I think the whole goal with, making America healthy again is to give people options. No one wants to take anything away from you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
If you want to go out and you want to smoke 12 packs a day, you're an American and you have that option to do it. What I think we want to do is give you the information. Okay, if you decide to smoke 12 packs a day, here's exactly what's going to happen to your body. Now, when it comes to cigarettes, I think we already all know.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But what we're talking about right now is informing people in terms of what is in their food, what it is that they're consuming, what is it that on a daily basis is impacting their health that they may not be aware of right now. And I think that that's very important.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Now, the things like fluoride in our water or having pesticides on everything that we ingest, those are things that I think all of us could probably agree if it's something that is making us less healthy and we have the ability, like the red dye, to get it out of our food supply. I don't know how anyone argues against that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
The goal with all of this is more information for you, the American consumer, the American citizen, so that you have actual informed consent. You can make your own decisions and lead a healthier life if that's what you want to do.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I really hope so.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Because, look, we have to shift the way we think in so many respects, which is that people wait until they get sick and then they want to treat the symptoms of being sick, right?
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And being sick is a symptom of something else that's going on in your body, right? If we can prevent the symptoms from ever occurring because we are leading healthier lifestyles, not only do we feel better all the time, but then the cost associated with treating those symptoms doesn't exist anymore.
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And so why wouldn't we want to front load things for ourselves and say, we're going to have all around a healthier society because we're going to inform people in terms of actually what makes them healthy, actually altering their lifestyles so that they don't have to end up on these pharmaceuticals, so that they don't have to end up in a hospital or a long-term care facility one day.
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Gosh, what a great thing that would be for our country, Gary.
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Well, I would actually push back on that with the opposite, which is that the way it's been going, and you can compare it, there's a lot of comparisons that I can make between our federal government and our healthcare system, which is that there's a lot that's been going on that I don't think people are truly aware of.
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The whole goal with making America healthy again is to give people options, more information for you, the American consumer, so that you can make your own decisions and lead a healthier life if that's what you want to do.
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And I think the more information we're able to get out there, we're getting it through Doge and our bureaucracy right now.
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It's terrifying.
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And isn't it upsetting every single day to realize, oh, my God, we've been paying $10 million for circumcisions in Ghana. We've been paying $15 million for Sesame Street in Iraq. How is this impacting the United States in any way?
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Absolutely.
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They pay into, you know, you, you hope that as a law abiding citizen, you pay your taxes every April, you do the right things, you know, it's taken out of your paycheck, whatever it is. And then God forbid you ever need it. It's there for you in the form of FEMA. Uh, it's actually working to improve your life or improve the school system in your area, whatever it is.
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Yeah. No, by the way, I think you're right. I think we are in such an incredible time in the history of our country. Mm-hmm. And for me, look, obviously I have a certain proximity to it because of my last name, because I was the co-chair of the Republican National Committee during the course of this past election.
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And sadly, that's not what's been happening. And so that's the federal government. But then simultaneously, I could take it over and look at like the healthcare system that we've had for so long in the United States And it does feel like, look, there's certainly a lot of money at stake for a lot of people.
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And there are a lot of folks out there who probably don't want us to go down the Maha path because it impacts their bottom line. Because if you are a person who makes your living off of people being sick all the time, you probably don't like the idea of people being healthy all the time. So you have to consider that when you hear all of this information out there.
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I think the goal overall, like I said a few minutes ago, is to give people information. More information is always better than less. Let people make their own decisions in terms of their health care choices and their lifestyle choices.
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And I would love to see, by the way, functional medicine, alternative medicine, clinics that we could all visit that wouldn't be, you know, you walk into one of these urgent care facilities, why can't it be alternative or functional medicine?
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It's very hard. It's very hard. And the thing is, I'll pack my kids lunches and I'll be very proud of, you know, what I packed for them because I really do try to give them as much whole food as they will eat. And it's not perfect with kids for sure. And then they'll come home and they'll say, so-and-so had this fruit roll-up thing. And I'm like, oh my God, can we get those? I'm like...
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But just to be alive right now, while we are seeing such huge shifts and changes in these spaces that I think are going to make us better off as humankind. And it's this moment right now where, to your point, you have RFK Jr., a Democrat. The Kennedy name is synonymous with the Democrat Party. You have Donald Trump, who very clearly is a Republican.
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No, we can't get those. And they always want to know about why, but you know, so-and-so had it at school.
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Yeah. I'm like, oh, my. By the way, I do hear that.
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Their mom must care about them. I'm like, oh, okay. That's the worst. It's hard.
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It's hard. But, yeah, I mean, look, it's challenging. But, gosh, how much easier would it be for every parent out there if this was just kind of how it was? That, you know, you could feel great about sending your kid to school and having the school lunch there. And it was going to be helpful for them and not poisoning them.
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is if you haven't been into a hospital recently, which I hope no one has, but if you go visit anyone in a hospital and just the general food that they will serve you, it is like they have like the pudding packs. It's garbage. And I'm like, okay, you are here in a place because you are sick. You are unwell. We're trying to get you out of here so that you can go live your life.
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And this is what you're being given.
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They could not be on more different sides of the political aisle, but they have come together because now is the time that I think it's not about politics. It's about making America healthy again. It's about really exposing people to what's been going on.
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We're in that shift space, though. I really feel it. And I think that people are going to start demanding it. And I think that that's the shift that we've seen happen. You know, people are finally aware of things for the first time. And I think, I hope it translates to schools. I hope it translates to hospitals. I hope it translates everywhere.
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But I think it's, you know, it's going to take people demanding it to happen.
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And you're seeing that happen in DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, where within our government, all of our taxpayer dollars, we don't really know where it goes. We're finding out now. It's gone to a lot of bad causes and a lot of bad places and things that have nothing to do with America. Likewise, I think this ability we're going to have to tap into what really will make us healthy.
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I do.
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I do. I think, you know, the first term in office, You had no new wars, first president in 82 years to have no new wars, Donald J. Trump. And you also had the Abraham Accords, historic peace agreements in the Middle East, something that people said would never happen. Donald Trump was the one to do it. And the irony, of course, is that
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There was hysteria around the fact that Donald Trump wouldn't have the nuclear codes. Donald Trump would get us in World War III. And if you take his first term in office and take a look at it, he was the anti-war president. He was working on our, what would have been, I think, a bit of a different exit from Afghanistan. But he doesn't want the American people to be involved in conflicts that...
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we don't need to be involved in. And you're right, there is an industrial war complex. And some people understand what that means, some people don't. In the same way that there are some out there incentivized for us all to be sick, because the profit margins are huge, there's a ton of money to be made by the American people staying in a perpetual state of sickness.
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Likewise, there's a lot of money to be made when there are wars around the world that the American people have to engage in.
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Yes. And there are a lot of people who make a lot of money off of it, a lot of kickbacks, a lot of it. And the great news with Donald Trump, and one of the things that I think some people came to know very quickly about him, some are learning, is that Donald Trump has made his money. Donald Trump is not interested in anything other than doing the best job he possibly can for this country.
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And it always made me laugh when people would say like, what's he getting from Putin? What's he getting from this? He's not getting anything. It's crazy. It's absolutely not scary. It's crazy.
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It's absolute insanity. He is 100% committed to getting us out of these conflicts, to ending these conflicts. He talks consistently about the fact that the bloodshed in Ukraine has been horrific. The people that they're losing and that the Russians are losing is terrible. You know, the Middle East, you look there too. And I do believe he will be successful in it.
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Why is it that here in the United States of America, we're supposed to be, we pride ourselves as being the best in the world at everything, Gary. Why are we seeming to regress in a space? Why is it that we are the richest nation in the world? And for some reason, we seem to be the sickest nation in the world.
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And I think, you know, sometimes it's a little bit of you have to have peace through strength. And people see him. He's a strong leader. They know when he draws the line in the sand, he's not joking. He absolutely means what he says. And so I think Vladimir Putin,
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respects that enough to say you know what i don't know that i want to engage this guy either so i think they all want to get out of it i think i think everyone wants it to end including russia obviously ukraine um and i do think he'll be successful that is so amazing
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I know I said to you when I got here, I could spend 10 hours with you, Gary.
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Oh, Well, I don't know that I am the ultimate human, but I think we're always striving for it.
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I'm doing my best. We're all doing our best, I think. You know, in my mind, the ultimate human is someone who is able to balance all different aspects of life. And whether that's health and fitness, whether it's family life, whether it's social life, whatever. You know, you want to have, to me, a great balance of all of them.
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And I don't know that any of us ever fully achieve it, but I think we're all striving for it. I can tell you every day I'm trying to do the best I can as a mom, as a wife, as a daughter, as a daughter-in-law, as the host of a show, as, you know, all the different things. And so to me, I think the ultimate human is someone who can balance it all.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
So you can follow me on social media at Laura Lee Trump, L-A-R-A-L-E-A. I know, I don't know what my parents are doing there. L-A-R-A-L-E-A. Yeah, it's really wild. Laura Lee Trump on Instagram, on X, on TikTok, on all the different things. And then my show is called My View on Fox. It's 9 p.m. every Saturday night. My View FNC is the handle for all social media as well.
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Parents are like, I don't know, what am I feeding my kid every single day? Can I feel comfortable that I'm giving them food that will make them healthy and not sick? And I don't think people feel that way right now. I think they're very concerned about it all. So absolutely incredible. I think it's an awesome time to be alive too.
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I hope so too.
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And to reap the benefits of everything going on.
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When I also saw that some fast food outlet also replaced their oil with beef tallow.
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The time we're in right now with Donald Trump as the 47th president, I think is so fascinating. And what I always say is I actually think it's better that he was president for two terms that were not consecutive. Had he been president for eight years in a row, first of all, no one wanted that more than those of us in our family. We all worked for it for 2020.
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I really hope so, because being sick is a symptom of...
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It is so much better that he is president now than it ever would have been had he won in 2020 and remained president for the next four years. the ability we're going to have to shine a light in all the dark places is unlike anything I think this country has ever seen.
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And so whether it's within the federal government itself, within the bureaucracy that exists there, or whether it's within our general health care system, and I have to extend that out to our kids, our schools, like all of it.
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There's so much that needs to be exposed. And believe me, Donald Trump is absolutely bought into exposing all of it, resetting things, making sure you as an American feel great about where you're sending your kid to school, what you're putting in your body, where your tax dollars are going. All of those things are happening simultaneously. It's incredible.
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And, yeah, he's got the best partner in Bobby Kennedy to do it.
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It's a little bit of that. It's half that. I think sometimes you need to see the other side of things and the alternative for you to realize maybe what you had in some cases. But I would say for my father-in-law as a president, it's interesting because everyone knows he was not a politician before he came down the escalator and announced he was running for president in 2015.
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And so his first time in office, there was so much to learn. There was so much that he didn't expect. I think he thought, okay, I'm gonna win the presidency. I'm gonna go into the White House. Everyone will want the president to succeed because that means a successful America. That did not happen in case nobody noticed.
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A little different. You know, he didn't have this ability to really know. He had to fill all of these positions within the federal government. And there were so many people working against him that were supposed to be working with him and for him. So that was an uphill battle initially.
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I think the American people are more clear-eyed now looking at Donald Trump and looking at our country as a whole than they were in 2020. Maybe we had to go through COVID. Maybe it opened a lot of people's eyes. Maybe we had to go through Joe Biden being president. You know, wars starting, inflation rising, open borders, all of these different things
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have made life tougher, sadly, for a lot of people in this country. And so that coupled with the fact that he's a different president now. And I always say, it's funny because I think the first term, people were like, here's the mold of president and you got to fit directly into this mold. And now he's like, No, I don't need to fit into this mold. I'm gonna fit everything around how I operate.
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And instead of operating the way people said he should, he's operating how he knows, which is as a CEO. He's really like the CEO of America now and he's operating it like a business. And so it's just, I think everything seems to be clicking right now. The team he has around him, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard. Oh, they're amazing.
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These people who never four years ago would have been part of the team are on the team now and it's to our benefit. And I think it's amazing.
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Yeah, well, I mean, maybe I'm a little bit lucky because mine are very young. They're five and seven. But that's old enough that they're aware of the things that are out there. I mean, my son, my seven-year-old, asks me when he's going to get a phone every day. And I'm like, not for a long time, dude. Double your age at least. And then, yeah, poor guy.
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Bless his heart, as we say in North Carolina where I'm from.
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Well, that's the thing is a lot of my friends have older kids. And so some of them actually have phones already. He's like, well, so-and-so's got a phone. I'm like, well, it's not you. Well, it's not you. Yeah. Sucks to be you. It's hard. It's so hard. There's so much. And it's so different than how I grew up, you know, and how so many of us grew up. Because we didn't have all of this stuff.
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For me, I also think I'm lucky because I live in Florida where I can use the old adage of, I don't care what you do, just get outside. You can do something outside because that's what we like to do with my kids. They're very active. They're obviously when they're in school during the day, five days a week. When they're done with school, I get them in all kinds of activities.
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Both of my kids do jujitsu. Oh, amazing. Which for people who don't know, Brazilian jujitsu for kids is incredible. It is.
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Yeah, my five-year-old's a girl and my seven-year-old's a boy. And they've both been doing jujitsu for maybe three years now. Wow, what an awesome sport. But it's actually great because not only does it teach you kind of body control and obviously self-defense, but there's a respect aspect of it.
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You have to be respectful and cognizant of your, you know, the instructor and your coach and the people with whom you're fighting because it's all, it's all part of it. They're basketball, football, soccer, gymnastics. We do all those things. And in my mind, I think back to when I was a kid and I was very involved in sports and activities. And I actually think it kept me out of a lot of trouble.
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And the same with my brother, I would say. Screen time, they get, if they have a great day at school, 15 minutes a day. Right on. That's it. And if things are not perfect, then no screen. And parents are always like, well, my kid throws a fit. I'm like, okay, we'll take it away for a week. And the next time they start to throw a fit, you can remind them that you took it away for the week.