Lara Trump


Lara Lea Trump is a former American television producer and campaign adviser to the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump. She is married to the president's son Eric Trump, with whom she has two children.
She is the producer and host of Trump Productions' Real News Update and a former producer of Inside Edition.

Early life, education, and career

Lara Yunaska was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on October 12, 1982, to Robert Luke Yunaska and Linda Ann Sykes. She has a younger brother, Kyle Robert Yunaska. She studied at North Carolina State University and the French Culinary Institute in New York.
Lara had served as a story co-ordinator and producer for the TV news magazine Inside Edition from 2012 to 2016. During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign of Donald Trump, Lara spearheaded the Trump–Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour and served as the liaison in Trump Tower for Brad Parscale's Giles-Parscale company. After her father-in-law was elected president, she became an online producer and fundraiser for President Trump and appears in front of the camera as a spokesman the Real News Update reports produced by Trump Productions. She is also hired as the senior consultant to Brad Parscale for Trump's re-election in 2020.
In April 2019, she described German chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to accept refugees during the European migrant crisis of 2015 as "the downfall of Germany, it was one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany."
The Trump campaign is paying Lara Trump $180,000 a year through the campaign manager’s private company, Parscale Strategy. Lara Trump has been a surrogate on the stump and taken on broad advisory roles.

Personal life

Following a six-year relationship, on November 8, 2014, Lara Trump married Eric Trump in a ceremony at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. On September 12, 2017, the couple's first child, son Eric "Luke" Trump was born. On August 19, 2019, Lara gave birth to daughter Carolina Dorothy Trump, the couple's second child. She is an avid triathlete.