A video that Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, posted to her Instagram, has gone viral.
Lara, 39, a TV producer, lives with her kids and husband in Florida. Hurrican Ian, now dowgraded to a tropical storm, is still battering the state.
Lara took her 5-year-old son, Luke, out before it started to rain heavily. However, whilst out, the storm began to beat down. The little boy, on a kid’s tricycle, cries and is clearly just wanting to get home as soon as possible.
Mom Lara tells him, “Oh my God, Luke. It’s so much rain. Go, you can do it, let’s go.”
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Trump posted the video to her Instagram, saying, “Thought we had a clear window, turns out we did some character building instead 🙈🤣🌧🌀 stay safe everyone! 🙏🏽”
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Taking your child out whilst it’s dry and getting caught in the rain is hardly a crime. However, doing so when you know there’s a hurricane coming, and then posting a video of your tearful child online, is what appears to have upset people.
The clip has been shared thousands of times.
Lara Trump and son during the storm, in what she calls a “character building” exercise. pic.twitter.com/gHaBChXBX2
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 28, 2022
Many have expressed horror at what they saw.
I don’t know what’s worse – that she did this to him, or that she filmed it and then posted it as some sort of brag.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) September 28, 2022
Would you publicly post a video exploiting and humiliating your very young child for clicks? Because it sure looks like Lara Trump did.
— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) September 28, 2022
I thought there could be nothing worse than having Eric Trump as your dad, but I was wrong. There’s having Lara Trump as your mom.
— rodney grim (@rodneygrim) September 28, 2022
Lara Trump thinks taking her child for a walk in a hurricane is “character building”.
Posting a video of him crying for millions to see is abusive.
— KD 📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 (@kdnerak33) September 28, 2022
Lara Trump when her kid didn’t want to go out and play during the Hurricane. pic.twitter.com/xK1gxYM5yB
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) September 28, 2022
What Lara Trump is doing by making her child stay in the storm scared while filming him is abuse. Plain and simple.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) September 28, 2022
Here’s Lara Trump proudly teaching her son that hurricanes are just fake news invented by the liberal media to sell more batteries and bottled water. pic.twitter.com/J6fgeSh15x
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) September 28, 2022
Eric Trump talks about his own childhood experiences
Perhaps Lara’s approach to parenting isn’t all that surprising. Recently, her husband Eric Trump boasted of the “character building” his father subjected him to when younger.
Related: Eric Trump just said WHAT about his childhood?!
Eric claimed in a YouTube interview that if he asked his dad for a big gift as a child, Donald Trump would expect him to work for it on one of his construction sites.
Eric says his dad’s response would be along the lines of: “Congratulations, you’re going out with construction guys to cut rebar … you’re going to hop on a backhoe, you’re going to dig holes, you’re going to grab a chainsaw, you’re going to clear down trees from a storm, you’re going to do electrical work and plumbing work … we were on job sites. We were 11 years old, paid minimum wage, learning a trade. That was expected.”
It sure looks like little Luke has plenty of “character building” to look forward towards. Here’s hoping he’s not expected to clear down trees after Hurricane Ian has exhausted itself.
Jim
There’s a special place in hell for parents who post embarrassing videos of their children
WillParkinson
Wait. She knows what character is? I doubt that.
Mr. Stadnick
How surprising a trump acting like an ignorant vulgar sociopath. She is right on brand.
still_onthemark
Grandpa will say “What a loser! He’s probably gay.”
Godof 1967
Why don’t people address it for what it is ?
Child abuse at its finest.
Nasty b itch she is too
taylor94
Poor kid is stuck in a terrible family. Fortunately, he’s living in FL with his fame seeking opportunist mother who’s always away on the road selling the family swill of propaganda. His father lives and works in NY away from the children. His only hope is the nanny is nice and will raise him well, with little influence of the Trump cult agenda.
dbmcvey
Unsurprisingly, she’s a terrible person.
CNY1983
and she sounds like a terrible mother too. the kind that is always calling her son a sissy because his fathers dick is too small to satisfy her. old story, poor kid.
Rob91316
That might be considered “character building” in some Third World nations, but here in the USA we call it criminal child abuse. Lock that c*nt up!!!
joeSF
Look for flying pigs because I can’t believe I’m going to defend a Trump but come on…This fake outrage is ridiculous. Can’t stand her either but she took her kid out before it rained, misjudged and was heading home. The kid is crying, and she is encouraging him to keep going so they can get home. So YES character building. If it was hailing it would be different but the kid was getting WET that is all. So what she filmed it, Jimmy Kimmel has a whole segment on parents teasing their kids until they cry telling them they ate all the Halloween candy. Where was a pearl clutching then? There are plenty of things this family does that is offensive, this isn’t one of them.
HMFan
Well, how ELSE is her son supposed to learn how to fear God, bear a deep grudge against his parents, and that real men completely ignore the obviously hazardous?…
Jimmynj
There is absolutely no Trump, whether via birth or marriage, who is a decent human being. Lara Trump, along with the rest of them is abusive trash. They should be locked up for their numerous crimes, including treason, fraud and now child abuse. This family is absolute trash.
johncp56
and they are the first to use there kids as battering rams, point lost Luron moron