Lara Trump says she’s willing to showcase her own, um, vocal stylings next year for those who opt out of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
On Wednesday’s episode of her “Right View With Lara Trump” podcast, President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law addressed the “All American Halftime Show” that is meant to compete with the big-game broadcast on NBC.
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Turning Point USA, the right-wing political group founded by slain activist Charlie Kirk, unveiled its plans for an alternative, MAGA-themed halftime show last week in response to the NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny as next year’s official halftime headliner.
On her podcast, Lara Trump said she’d heard from “a lot of owners of NFL teams” who are angered by the choice of Bad Bunny, a three-time Grammy winner who performs predominantly in Spanish and is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
“I don’t know what the heck the NFL was thinking with this one, but I can tell there are a lot of people who are not happy about it,” she said. “The great news is we don’t need the NFL. We don’t need any of these woke losers to perform, we can have our own performance, so shoutout to Turning Point for coming up with their own halftime show, I love it.”
In response to a listener’s question regarding who she’d most like to see perform at the Turning Point event, Lara Trump named country artists Chris Janson and Chris Stapleton, as well as Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald, before suggesting … herself.
Lara Trump, right, with her husband, Eric Trump. Bloomberg via Getty Images
“You know what? You can throw Lara Trump in there,” she said. “Yeah, that’s right. Imagine how upset people on the left would be if something like that happened.”
“It sort of makes me wanna offer myself up,” she added. “I have not been asked, but I’m gonna offer it right now! So let’s see what happens.”
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Lara Trump, who is married to the president’s son Eric Trump, has made no secret of her musical aspirations. She’s released a handful of singles, the most recent being “Eyes of God,” which dropped earlier this year.
Her most-streamed track on Spotify, however, is her infamous cover of the 1989 smash “I Won’t Back Down,” originally performed by late rock musician Tom Petty.
In 2020, Petty’s family issued a cease-and-desist order to bar Donald Trump from using the song on the campaign trail. That didn’t stop Lara Trump from releasing her cover in 2023, and from performing it at her father-in-law’s Westchester, New York, golf club earlier this year.
Footage of that performance went viral, and judging by the responses it garnered online, it seems few are eager for an encore.
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