Lara Trump can never seem to get a break in the news. It’s some people’s lot in life to be the butt of jokes, unfortunately, and it seems that life has picked Lara to fill one of those spots.

Don’t get me wrong: It’s understandable that Fox News would give her a show on the network. The station is nothing if not consistent in giving shows to those who are supremely loyal to their conservative bent, and it doesn’t get much closer to Donald Trump himself than hiring his daughter-in-law.

But apart from the built-in audience of MAGA viewers she automatically gets awarded purely on the merit of her (married) last name, Lara was bound for ridicule, honestly. She really hasn’t been able to do much right, publicly speaking.

In fact, even speaking in public generally presents a challenge for her, which sometimes turned into an outright struggle as she was often interviewed in her official capacity as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

Between that and whoever gave her the idiotic idea that she could (a) sing and (b) change the words to a song by one of the most famous songwriters ever and try to pass it off as an original, Lara has been an object of scorn enough times to remember the sting before it even comes.

The latest criticism, however, has taken a different turn than the traditional things people have said about her in the past. In fact, let’s just jump right in:

What in the horse face happened to Lara Trump? 😮

— IdahoeLiberal 🇺🇸 (@IdahoeLiberal) February 23, 2025

Well, now. That’s pretty direct and to the point. Sure, a lot of people have remarked on the “possibility” that she’s had plastic surgery before, but I’m pretty sure that’s the first direct comparison to a horse that I’ve seen.

Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was one of Lara’s first guests, and she even did a little teaser tweet for their upcoming interview before Trump’s Fox debut.

I sat down with the beautiful and talented @LaraLeaTrump for the premiere of her new show – airing tonight on @FoxNews at 9PM ET! Tune in! 📺 pic.twitter.com/ikS8klMRQS

— Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) February 22, 2025

As you might imagine, only FANS of the administration would follow Leavitt on social media for anything other than research purposes, so to see the same kind of reaction from someone who thinks Lara’s “great” was eye-catching:

for me, lara has just had too much plastic surgery its hard for me to watch her. shes great though

— Meow (@Adam64396134955) February 23, 2025

Yet another fan of Lara’s, whose social media bio reads “God lover 🙏🏼❤️ America Lover❤️🇺🇸 Animal lover❤️🐾 Family first ❤️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 MAGA ❤️🇺🇸,” posted something similar in the days before Trump’s debut, and it wasn’t even a response to anything, it was just a random thought the person had:

What has Lara Trump done to her face? Did she have plastic surgery? New cheek bones? She was pretty.

— waltdogusa (@AliceGardenhire) February 20, 2025

That has got to hurt. Because here’s the thing: I don’t personally go after people’s looks. Even Donald gets a pass from me, largely because I myself am a chubby, pasty white guy who really only looks good if he dresses up in fancy clothes.

Not that I have any $10,000 suits, or ties you could write the Iliad on.

But it turns out maybe Lara HAS heard all this before, and in a way that’s much, much sadder than random people on the internet saying she looks like a horse. According to Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer” who wound up testifying against him after going to prison for lying on his behalf, this has been a thing for a while.

“I’ve got to be very clear on this–Lara’s an idiot,” Cohen told the Meidas Touch Network.

“I don’t say it to be mean, I say it because it’s true… Donald didn’t even like her for many, many years. He didn’t want Eric to marry her. He had found someone else that was working at the Trump organization that he wanted Eric to marry… not only did Donald make fun of her looks… but so did Donald Jr. and Ivanka. They didn’t like her at all,” Cohen said.

In fact, Trump didn’t like her until something very specific happened, according to the former family friend. “He [Trump] was watching TV and saw this blonde girl talking about him. It caught his attention and he thought, ‘Woah, these are beautiful things, these are incredible,’ then he realized, ‘oh my god, that’s my daughter-in-law. That’s Lara Trump.’ From that moment on, as he called it, it was a love-fest… he couldn’t stand her until she started kissing his ass. Well, what do you do when someone’s kissing your ass? Make them the co-chair of the RNC.”

Which just goes to show you, you can make a horse your daughter (in law), but you can’t make her think.