Eric Trump and Lara Trump’s son Eric Luke was born in 2017. Two years later, they welcomed their daughter Carolina Dorothy. When Lara was pregnant with Luke, she was concerned about Donald Trump being unable to keep the pregnancy a secret until she was ready to share the news with the public. “We were worried he’d blurt it out at a press conference,” she told People.
Her kids didn’t just give Donald something to go off-topic about while ranting at the “fake news” media. By 2020, Lara and Eric had become so deeply entrenched in Donald’s world that they were using their kids to demonstrate their disdain for his political enemies. On Instagram, Lara shared a video of the children watching their growling dog aggressively shake an unflattering Nancy Pelosi doll. Some Instagrammers were outraged, with one person writing in the comments, “Wow aren’t you mother of the year! Way to go — teaching children aggression towards those you differ with politically.”
A year later, Eric posted an Instagram photo of Carolina wearing an orange “Make America Great Again” hat. In the caption, he directed his followers to click the link in his bio to purchase the MAGA merch. “Truly scary indoctrination of innocent children,” one critic responded. According to Lara, bedtime even gets a bit political at her house. At CPAC 2024, she told the crowd that her children recite the Pledge of Allegiance every night.
