Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Lara Trump on Faith, Family, Fitness, and Raising Kids Without Screens ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:00:40.380 Today we are talking to Laura Trump. She is so incredible, right? Outside of her show on Fox

00:00:46.580 News or her political beliefs and how she is able to stand beside the president, be a part of the

00:00:52.220 first family, how she's able to do all that while being a mom. The thing, honestly, that I'm most

00:00:58.020 excited to ask her about is her workout routine, right? Come on. If you're watching on youtube.com,

00:01:04.500 we have a picture of her on screen. How does she look like this while doing all that she does 0.99

00:01:11.200 and doing it all so well? Well, we're going to find out.

00:01:19.140 Well, Laura, thank you for joining the Riley Gaines show. Oh my gosh. Thank you. I'm so

00:01:24.140 honored. Thanks for having me, Riley. First and foremost, I want to ask you about the

00:01:27.820 world cup because I, my understanding is you were there yesterday. Tell us about the experience.

00:01:33.480 Oh my gosh. Well, it was so cool. First of all, I've loved so much how into sports the whole

00:01:39.880 world kind of has become. And especially I feel like this world cup, it brought us all closer

00:01:44.760 together. I feel like it, it really has been like such a great connector of people. I've loved all

00:01:49.860 of the foreign people coming into the United States, all of these people from all over the

00:01:54.640 world, loving our country, loving things like, you know, going to Walmart or Bass Pro, things that I

00:02:00.340 feel like we take for granted here in America. They're really loving it. And I think that the

00:02:05.980 end of this is that kind of Americans maybe have a newfound love for soccer. You know, I go to my

00:02:13.700 kids' soccer games, Riley, on like Saturday mornings, and it's kind of a tradition. I played

00:02:17.740 soccer when I was a kid. I feel like a lot of Americans of, you know, my generation did, but

00:02:22.880 then it kind of like dies out and americans don't watch it that much i think maybe we turned a

00:02:27.120 corner because i gotta tell you that stadium yesterday was packed full of people i think

00:02:31.920 they said it was over 80 000 people there i was saying saying to eric before the game started i

00:02:36.940 was like look at look around here there was not one single empty seat it was so much fun uh to be

00:02:42.580 honest both of my kids were cheering for argentina but spain deserved to win they played an amazing

00:02:47.260 game um and it was so incredible to be there what an honor and something that our family obviously

00:02:52.120 we'll never forget. Yeah. Now, what about the halftime show? I didn't really know what the,

00:02:57.020 I guess, what the plan was for it prior to watching it. And it was like a conglomerate of

00:03:02.520 so many different people. How was that? It was a hodgepodge. It was a hodgepodge for sure. You

00:03:07.880 know, in my mind, we could have had a really kind of epic show. If you took all the performers who

00:03:13.820 in their own right are amazing performers, and maybe they all collabed together or something,

00:03:19.420 that's in my mind like what was going to happen but my understanding is they've never really done

00:03:24.000 a halftime show traditionally in these soccer games and so i guess given that it was in america

00:03:29.980 given we like a big halftime show we know how the super bowl usually goes i guess they decided

00:03:34.500 maybe last minute to put this together i don't know i i was okay with it i know some people got

00:03:39.440 upset with it i saw a lot of commentary online about it um but to be honest it was kind of hard

00:03:44.860 to appreciate being in the stands you know i feel like the folks at home probably got a better view

00:03:49.980 of it you know it was all good we got we got up for it you know a time or two and got a snack and

00:03:56.140 went to the bathroom but what i saw was fine i wasn't offended by it there's going to be comments

00:04:00.980 online regardless what the thing is you could be debating whether you like chocolate ice cream or

00:04:06.420 vanilla ice cream and there's going to be like a a faction of online that hates you for whatever

00:04:11.580 your choices yeah um i watched justin bieber perform and i thought it was so cool because

00:04:16.820 he sang a song everything hallelujah and it was just cool to see someone with the platform that

00:04:22.400 he does on that stage right in front of i mean tens of thousands of people there but millions

00:04:27.820 and millions online talking about the lord um so yes no i i thought of that too and i appreciated

00:04:34.680 that he had the opportunity to kind of have all the bells and whistles and it was just him

00:04:39.400 with a guitar like you know what that's kind of that's kind of cool that's that's a little uh

00:04:44.720 that's a little gutsy to get out there in front of all those people to your point only have the

00:04:49.920 guitar to help you out so I thought it was great I was okay with that too now the president was

00:04:54.400 there and he got to present the trophy to Spain how well was he received because again you see

00:05:00.680 different things circulating online how did the the team I think specifically receive him and maybe

00:05:06.200 the people in the stadium? Well, I wasn't physically on the field with him. We were

00:05:11.140 kind of like backstage. What I could tell, I feel like it was all good. I know there was some

00:05:16.480 chatter prior to the game as to whether or not some people were going to engage with him or

00:05:23.720 shake his hand or whatever. I think at that point, to be honest, these athletes were just so thrilled

00:05:28.620 and elated to have won and have been able to be there on that field together. I kind of think

00:05:34.340 that hopefully they they left all the politics aside so from my vantage point i felt like it was

00:05:40.160 okay um and i felt like everybody was probably just on the high of a win um but i'm sure to

00:05:46.320 your point riley that there were a lot of people online who had a lot of hot takes on it as they

00:05:50.980 do and as they will continue to do um i told a couple people that you and i were going to have

00:05:57.360 the opportunity to chat today and every single one before they said anything about the president

00:06:02.680 or your your role in media or in politics they told me to ask you what is your fitness routine

00:06:08.940 so that's like the pressing question of the day we gotta know like is it cardio is it lifting

00:06:15.000 what's the split that's so funny well thank you that that is so nice to hear um you know i do a

00:06:22.120 little bit of everything and i feel like that's first of all let me let me start by saying i love

00:06:26.540 that people are getting more and more into health and fitness i think it's so great i'm i'm a big

00:06:32.060 fan of the Maha movement. I love all that we're doing with transparency on that front. And I love

00:06:37.200 that people are really focusing on making sure that they feel better and they're healthier and

00:06:42.360 they're not turning to pharmaceuticals for that rally. They're realizing that the food you eat

00:06:47.960 and what you put in your body and how you move your body can actually do all of that for you.

00:06:52.720 And you don't need to put any foreign substance in there. So this has kind of been my life,

00:06:58.080 my entire life, I have always worked out, I've always kind of prioritized that for myself. And

00:07:04.080 even if it's, you know, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, sometimes is all I get, sometimes very early in

00:07:09.720 the morning, I try to take it because not only is it something that is physically good for me,

00:07:15.220 but it's also mentally good for me. And I think a lot of people who have a consistent workout

00:07:20.520 routine know what I'm talking about, you need that time to just like settle yourself and do

00:07:25.300 something for you. And so I do, I do a little bit of everything. Like I said, I train for triathlons.

00:07:31.060 I try to stay kind of ready in case something comes along. So I do a lot of biking. I do less

00:07:37.240 running than I used to, but I still, I love to go for a run if I can. I try to get weightlifting in.

00:07:42.740 I love CrossFit. I'm also into Pilates whenever my schedule allows, but I just try to do a little

00:07:49.920 bit of everything. And I think that keeping your body guessing is always the key. So once your body

00:07:56.360 gets used to some workout, I mean, I know I don't have to tell you, you're the athlete here between

00:08:00.800 the two of us, truly. But once your body gets used to something, it stops responding. So people

00:08:06.200 might go to the gym and they get on the elliptical. And for the first like two months, they're like,

00:08:10.620 oh my gosh, yeah, I'm seeing changes. They might lose some weight or they might gain some muscle

00:08:14.960 here or there. But ultimately, your body's going to get used to that. So you got to switch it up.

00:08:19.200 So I try to kind of keep my body guessing as best I can.

00:08:23.280 You talk about, you know, kind of making those sacrifices and, you know, setting time aside.

00:08:28.520 So you really prioritize that.

00:08:30.300 Do you wake up pretty early and do this?

00:08:33.120 Yeah.

00:08:33.880 Sometimes it's like ridiculously early.

00:08:36.160 Sometimes I'm like, I know anyone who sees me going to the gym or like going out for

00:08:40.440 a run right now thinks I'm a total lunatic, but I need that time.

00:08:43.600 I mean, you know, most days I wake up in the five o'clock hour, but there are times if

00:08:48.940 I have an early flight, if I need to wake up at like 345, four o'clock in the morning, I'm going

00:08:53.720 to do it just to get that in, get it done. Because I, you know, I think all parents out there

00:08:58.120 appreciate this. If I tried to wait to the end of the day to do any of this, forget it. I got my

00:09:03.900 kids. I got my dogs. I got my husband. I got work stuff going on. It's not going to happen. So my

00:09:09.220 goal is to get it in the first thing in the morning. And then I don't have to think about

00:09:13.580 it the rest of the day. A hundred percent. I have always urged this audience because I find it to be

00:09:18.820 the same way. And I think to your point, especially once you become a mom, um, setting that time

00:09:24.000 aside for yourself in the morning, gosh, it's the best way to start your day. Um, now I just

00:09:30.800 watched, um, you and Griff Jenkins, your bike ride. Uh, what's your like favorite distance

00:09:37.180 try? Uh, I like an Olympic distance try. So that's like a mile swim. It's around a 27 mile

00:09:43.800 bike ride and a 10 K run at the end. And I feel like that is a manageable training regimen. You

00:09:49.900 know, you go more than that. You go into like the half Ironman distance and it starts to be

00:09:55.560 like a lot of training, which I honestly just don't have time for right now. Um, so that that's

00:10:02.900 my perfect, perfect distance try. What about your diet? Like, is that something that you're

00:10:09.140 hyper-focused on or do you kind of work out so you can eat whatever you want? I feel like we all do

00:10:15.160 that to a certain extent. You know, it's really hard when you travel. And I think people who

00:10:21.140 travel regularly will tell you like the airports, it's like no man's land. You have a very hard time

00:10:27.520 when you're traveling and you're on the road to maintain some quality of eating. But I really try

00:10:33.400 to prioritize protein. So I'm not traditionally like a breakfast person, but I kind of force

00:10:39.320 myself in the mornings to eat at least egg whites, eggs, something like that with high protein.

00:10:44.960 Sometimes it's like a protein shake because I feel like that at least starts me off. Right.

00:10:49.760 And then if I end up, you know, traveling and I'm like not really eating perfectly, it's okay.

00:10:55.600 Cause I've gotten that in and protein also fills you up. This is, I feel like a lot of women out 1.00

00:11:00.680 there have this notion that if you eat protein and you lift weights, you're going to bulk up. 1.00

00:11:06.300 You're not bulking up unless you're like on something, unless you are injecting yourself

00:11:10.380 with something, you're not bulking up. You're not going to look crazy, but it's great for your

00:11:14.820 body. The more protein you have and the more muscle you build, the more calories you burn

00:11:18.660 just existing. And so I want to urge everybody out there, get the protein in, lift some weights.

00:11:24.600 Cause that's, I mean, that's really what's going to actually change your body.

00:11:28.080 What about any other wellness trends?

00:11:30.000 Like, do you do cold tubs, sauna, red light therapy?

00:11:34.940 Well, I have gotten very much, my husband and I have both gotten into sauna and cold

00:11:39.740 plunge, and I wish I had so much more time to do it.

00:11:44.200 I find that it's usually weekends that I can get it in, but I think it's great.

00:11:49.700 You know, you look at the studies, you look at the research, you look at places like the

00:11:52.940 Scandinavian countries where they've been living like this for so long.

00:11:56.380 and you look at their health and longevity

00:11:58.380 and there is a lot of truth to it.

00:12:00.720 The cold plunge stuff I find really interesting though

00:12:03.100 because to me, it's, yeah,

00:12:05.440 I know there's physical benefit to it,

00:12:07.000 but it's also one of those mind things

00:12:08.980 where I am in this cold plunge

00:12:10.980 and it's like 45 degrees and it's miserable.

00:12:14.000 But I'm like, you know what?

00:12:14.860 If I can force myself to stay in cold water,

00:12:18.360 despite my body screaming at me to get out,

00:12:21.180 I could probably force myself

00:12:22.300 to do a lot of uncomfortable things.

00:12:23.940 Anytime I get in a sticky situation

00:12:25.600 or something that doesn't feel totally comfortable, then guess what? I'm going to be prepared for it

00:12:31.080 because mentally I've already prepared myself by getting in this cold plunge. So that's another

00:12:35.760 thing that I kind of think people don't realize the benefit of those things goes far beyond

00:12:40.640 physical. But yeah, I, Eric and I both get into a, to a sauna cold plunge. We're both into that.

00:12:46.080 It's so funny. You say that about the cold plunge, because I have this vivid memory of my dad,

00:12:51.760 which my dad was a professional football player. Very, very big guy played for the Eagles. Maybe

00:12:56.640 I think a couple other teams. Anyways, when I was younger, he had a work trip and I went with him.

00:13:02.480 We stayed at this hotel. It was the middle of winter and we go down to the lobby

00:13:06.480 and he pulls back the cover on the pool. You know, it was one of those outdoor pools. Again,

00:13:10.640 it's like December, maybe January pulls back the cover of the pool. And he says, jump in.

00:13:14.960 I'm probably like eight years old at the time. I'm like, dad, this is child abuse. I'm not

00:13:18.180 jumping in. He says, no, you are. And you're not going to chatter your, your teeth. And you're not

00:13:23.200 going to say I'm cold. You can get out of the pool when, when I say, and so I did this of course.

00:13:28.980 And I remember being so confused at the time. And I, of course, eventually get out. And I said,

00:13:33.720 dad, like, what was that about? He said, it was a, it was a test of your mental toughness. He said,

00:13:38.280 there is no such thing as cold. There's absence of heat. Sure. But there's no such thing as cold.

00:13:44.300 And it has stuck with me. I mean, here I am 26 years, years old now. So it's, by the way,

00:13:50.860 your dad and my dad would have been really tight. This sounds like something my dad would have

00:13:54.860 have done. My dad, I credit for so much of my mental toughness and my kind of work ethic,

00:14:01.900 because the quick story, I, I tried out for the JV cheerleading team. This is in high school

00:14:08.020 and I got cut and I was so devastated. This is in like ninth grade, maybe 10th grade.

00:14:12.960 And I was so devastated by it. And I remember my dad being like, all right, well, you can have a pity party or you can work on what you didn't have to make the team for next year.

00:14:23.240 And I stood in my backyard working on getting a back handspring with my dad. I mean, hours on end. And he was not easy on me and he wouldn't, you know, baby me.

00:14:33.400 And I worked so hard that I got a back handspring and I got so much more than when I tried out the next year, I made the varsity team.

00:14:40.540 And I was like, you know what? Had my dad not pushed me in that way, had he not encouraged me in that way and been like, stop feeling sorry for yourself, get up and do something about it, then I wouldn't have made the varsity team.

00:14:52.500 And I think of that story all the time. It's similar to yours because it created a level of mental toughness and kind of work ethic and understanding that, look, your life is basically what you make of it.

00:15:05.540 And I think we have a culture that teaches kids that kind of things are owed to them

00:15:09.720 right now.

00:15:10.640 And I love the old school parenting way.

00:15:12.560 It sounds like your dad taught you and my dad taught me because I think it creates great

00:15:17.800 human beings, if I don't say so myself, Riley.

00:15:21.280 No, 100%.

00:15:22.280 Well, now I feel like at least what you see on social media is you see this whole gentle

00:15:28.080 parenting model.

00:15:30.760 And our child, again, she's nine months old now.

00:15:33.820 but i can't imagine that neither myself nor my husband will have the approach of you know this

00:15:39.640 this super duper soft voice and you baby them until they're 18 years old like i just i just

00:15:45.940 can't really imagine never telling my child no and that seems to be the new parenting model so i guess

00:15:52.520 maybe a good question for you is between you and eric who is like the more strict

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00:16:33.980 i think i would say we're probably both pretty tough parents and i would say i am more regularly

00:16:40.180 with the kids and so i think oftentimes they're like let's try dad first and then if dad and then

00:16:48.240 of course they get in trouble because i'm like oh dad said no that i'm i'm obviously a no we got

00:16:52.020 to be on the same page. Other advice to parents out there, stay on the same page. You got to have

00:16:56.760 each other's backs. But it's easy to say yes to kids. It's easy to give your kids too much. It's

00:17:04.360 easy to let them off the hook for acting like brats. It's easy to hand them an iPhone or an

00:17:09.660 iPad. It's much harder to do the other things. It's much harder to discipline kids. It's much

00:17:13.900 harder to see your kids upset, but it's teaching them a lesson. Eric and I don't give our kids

00:17:19.040 any devices, nothing ever. We go to dinner, they have to sit and talk to us or they come up with

00:17:24.180 their own games and play with each other and use their imagination. And I go to a restaurant and I

00:17:29.660 see all of these kids, Riley, on phones or on tablets. And I'm sorry, I cannot condone that.

00:17:37.440 It just, to me, you're setting your kid up for failure. They're getting this dopamine hit

00:17:41.180 from looking at a screen at three years old or whatever it is. They're never going to be able

00:17:46.760 to get that same feeling from interpersonal communication if you don't teach it to them.

00:17:51.340 So it's much harder to say no to your kids than it is to say yes to your kids.

00:17:56.340 But I think that's what we owe to them.

00:17:58.040 We owe to them to be great human beings when they grow up, great adults.

00:18:01.360 This is our future.

00:18:02.240 You know, we're raising who will ultimately guide our country whenever we're all old and

00:18:06.980 it's up to our kids' generation to take over.

00:18:09.540 So we better do the right thing. 1.00

00:18:11.420 It's so true.

00:18:12.340 Um, I had my phone just sitting on the, the little coffee table the other day and our

00:18:17.240 daughter, she just sort of walking this weekend.

00:18:19.320 It's the cutest best phase, but anyway, she's over at the coffee table and she grabs the

00:18:24.940 phone and she picks it up and I'm just watching her and she starts like scrolling.

00:18:29.280 It was like, she knew what to do.

00:18:30.880 And it was a big, you know, that moment like hit me in my face.

00:18:34.680 I'm like, Oh my gosh, she's watching what I'm doing.

00:18:37.320 So not only do I not need to give her a screen or of course, that's the route of parenting.

00:18:42.340 that my husband and I, at least thus far, are choosing to go. But not only that, I need to

00:18:47.420 watch how I am around her because she's picking up everything. So being more intentional in the

00:18:53.840 time that I spend with her, it was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe she's so young. She's so

00:18:58.300 little, but she's soaking it all in. It was wild to me. Okay. So what about, I guess, another kind

00:19:05.220 of controversial parenting thing now is vaccines. Where do things stand there for you and your

00:19:12.400 family? And maybe your approach now, maybe it was different than when your kids were born

00:19:18.060 with RFK in President Trump's administration. I got to say, I'm so grateful for Bobby Kennedy.

00:19:25.780 If you really kind of take a step back and look at what this man did, his name is synonymous

00:19:32.300 with Democrat politics. And yet he went out and not only endorsed President Trump in the 2024

00:19:40.200 election, but then put all his eggs in this basket that he could help, that he could do something

00:19:45.180 as HHS secretary that really, Raleigh, we've never seen before. We've never seen such transparency.

00:19:51.120 We've never seen what feels like somebody finally giving us the truth about so many things. I mean,

00:19:55.940 my gosh, you look at the old food pyramid. What a joke. What a complete joke. And what a horrible

00:20:02.040 way to try to guide our country, to guide the citizens of America. We're just doing everybody

00:20:07.900 such a disservice. So, yeah, I think he's been incredible. I am such a fan of so much of what he

00:20:13.680 does and not the least of which is also doing the right things for animals, which I could talk about

00:20:18.720 all day long. But when you talk about vaccines, I think it's I at least love that parents have

00:20:26.600 the choice now, because when my kids were born, they're six and eight now, I really didn't have

00:20:30.940 a choice. And my kids were both born in Manhattan in New York City. I remember very vividly taking

00:20:37.620 our son, who's our older child, to the pediatrician for his first visit. I don't know, two weeks old

00:20:44.540 or something, a baby baby. And I remember this doctor laying out for me all the vaccines and

00:20:51.300 the schedule that he had to be on. And when I even kind of asked a question about, okay, but can I

00:20:57.560 come back, you know, and spread these out, I was, it was like crazy. Like I was some lunatic 0.71

00:21:02.940 asking a question like that. And so I'm, I'm almost embarrassed to say, but I feel like I 0.73

00:21:08.480 got bullied a little bit into giving my son these vaccines early on that I, I kind of inherently as

00:21:15.120 a parent felt like maybe was wrong. This is a little baby. You're just injecting them with all

00:21:19.900 of this stuff. Um, and I am so happy that kids now do not have to have that path if their parents

00:21:27.420 choose differently, right? We have an administration who really, I feel like wants to give people the

00:21:33.000 truth and wants to give people the choice. And that's really key here because that's what our

00:21:38.000 country is all about. We as Americans should have a choice in terms of how we do so much

00:21:43.200 with living our lives, but especially as parents, when we're talking about vaccines, you should have

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00:21:54.300 right, then you can make that decision as a parent. And so I personally am really grateful

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00:24:15.660 i think covet opened a lot of people's eyes certainly mine at least i'll speak personally

00:24:20.140 you know that's when you started to ask questions and now i do think we have this

00:24:24.160 this new younger generation that that's now having kids that is starting to push back and

00:24:30.080 kind of go against the status quo which i find to be optimistic leaves me hopeful for the future

00:24:36.280 do you think your kids like do they realize who their family is who their mom who their dad who

00:24:43.800 their grandpa is it's a funny question i i kind of think they're they're starting to appreciate it

00:24:50.480 but i'll tell you i go so far out of my way to try to raise my kids like normal kids to try to raise

00:24:56.640 them as close to how i was raised as possible and you know they they play on all these sports teams

00:25:02.820 during the school year and it's you know just like the rec leagues near our house and it's it's very

00:25:08.560 normal and they have you know play dates with friends and we try to keep things as normal as

00:25:14.300 possible but then yeah then we go to the white house or they're flying on air force one or these

00:25:19.660 things and they realize that grandpa is president now the gravity of all that i don't know that you

00:25:25.040 grasp you know when you're in first and second grade or i guess they're going into second and

00:25:28.400 third now. But they're starting to appreciate it. And it is kind of cool because both of my kids

00:25:34.400 were born during my father-in-law's first administration. And I remember Eric and I

00:25:38.440 having the conversation like they'll never really get to experience this stuff and have these

00:25:43.900 memories. And yet it's incredible what God does, because I truly feel like he put President Trump

00:25:50.900 in the White House for his second term in this time and in this moment right now. I don't think

00:25:55.980 he ever intended him to have the two consecutive terms. And you look at so much that the president's

00:26:00.280 been able to do. And it's actually amazing because he wouldn't be able to do all of these things

00:26:04.140 had he had those two consecutive terms and just the way he operates. But certainly for us,

00:26:09.000 it's a gift because our kids get to experience these things. They'll have the memories of going

00:26:14.240 to the White House for the UFC fight, flying on Air Force One, spending time with grandpa

00:26:18.620 in the Oval Office. And I know that had he had the eight years straight, it wouldn't have been

00:26:24.640 the same thing. So it is very cool to see that. I was at the RNC convention, uh, of course,

00:26:30.400 back in, you know, leading up to the 2024 election. And if I can recall, right,

00:26:34.740 you were sat next to the president. I think your kids were there. Um, but this was right after

00:26:40.060 president Trump had an assassination attempt on his life. Actually the bullet, I mean, it hit him

00:26:45.800 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Is there a part of you that's fearful that you're going to get a phone

00:26:51.800 call that President Trump has been assassinated? Every day. I mean, if I'm being really honest,

00:26:58.420 I think all of us in our family, unfortunately, think that way. You know, to have seen the number

00:27:05.300 of times that people have tried to do this to one person, you kind of feel like at what point

00:27:12.760 do you run out of all your chances, you know? And I think that it's very clear that this is a

00:27:20.380 different time. We're in a different space. People, everything is heightened and people have

00:27:26.520 used really horrific terminology to describe this one person in particular. But yeah, of course we

00:27:33.540 think about it, but I don't think any of us dwell on it because I always take a page from my father

00:27:40.520 in law. And, you know, if you ask him, you know, do you think about these things? Are you ever worried?

00:27:45.600 He'll say, yeah, I can't think about that because I think the reality is if you start letting that

00:27:50.100 get in your head i mean this is again this is kind of like an athlete mindset you start thinking

00:27:54.420 about the what ifs what if i lose this race what if i you know my team doesn't win what if i mess

00:27:59.940 up and i and i i the goalie and i i you know they score the final goal and on my watch you start

00:28:05.960 thinking that way it takes you down the wrong path and i think he's very focused on the job

00:28:11.180 at hand and understanding that he's got a finite amount of time to execute exactly what the

00:28:15.240 american people sent him to the white house to do and i think he just kind of puts it out of his

00:28:19.720 head. I mean, I call him a political athlete because I truly believe that I've never seen

00:28:23.640 somebody like this man in my entire life. And so he, when he's not dwelling on it and he's not

00:28:29.240 overly focused on it, I think the rest of us look at that and we're like, you know what,

00:28:32.780 we have to live our lives the same way. But I mean, yes, we all think about it all the time.

00:28:37.720 And, and unfortunately I think that's just kind of the world we're in now.

00:28:42.820 It is amazing. Just how, and the word fearless gets tossed around a lot, but,

00:28:49.180 but I don't think that's, I mean, maybe it's a good way to describe President Trump, but I'm

00:28:53.000 sure he has fears. I mean, you just mentioned some of yours, it would certainly be a fear of mine.

00:28:57.680 So I guess, you know, someone who has fears, but is willing to do the right thing, the just thing,

00:29:03.240 in this case, the thing he was elected to do, I guess he would describe that person as,

00:29:06.920 as courageous. And he certainly is one of your whole family is one of the most courageous families.

00:29:13.780 He's one of the most courageous people. I think any of us will ever encounter or be able,

00:29:18.940 even to witness from afar in our lifetime uh one thing i was actually watching your show

00:29:23.980 recently and i saw you kind of come out swinging against the charlie kirk assassin conspiracy

00:29:31.020 things which i will say i'm right there with you i think the treatment that erica kirk has received

00:29:37.960 from this online that is so not real let's just be very clear like whatever you know portion of

00:29:46.580 online chatter that has things to disparaging things to say about Erica Kirk or Turning Point

00:29:51.540 USA. It's not real life. Like it doesn't exist in real life. Hardly. It seems so much bigger

00:29:57.300 online than it really is in person, but you came out swinging and I'm so glad you did.

00:30:02.220 Can you, can you talk about that a little bit and maybe some of the, the insane theories that

00:30:08.200 are out there and why you, you decided now to say something about it? I mean, from the beginning,

00:30:14.000 it's it's kind of disgusted me it was it was hours after charlie was murdered in cold blood in front

00:30:19.420 of the world that some of these people started coming out with the conspiracy theories with the

00:30:24.460 crazy stuff and you know for our family it it probably hits a little closer to home than others

00:30:30.520 as you just noted my father-in-law has been you know the people have been trying to kill him

00:30:36.160 constantly for years it feels like and whenever that happened in butler pennsylvania i'll tell

00:30:43.580 you rally the next week as you said was the rnc convention i had reporters asking me to my face

00:30:50.800 well what do you think about the fact that there are a group of people out there who are suggesting

00:30:56.440 that this was staged what do you think about people suggesting that president trump made all

00:31:01.000 this up that this was some sort of a publicity stunt for him ketchup packet on his ear no exactly 0.81

00:31:06.200 that is how crazy some of this stuff is but there are people out there as crazy as you can put it

00:31:11.620 out. There are people out there who will buy it because it's a clickbait culture because we've

00:31:16.040 lost touch with reality. You're right. In the real world, this stuff doesn't make sense,

00:31:20.120 but online you get enough people to say, Oh, I don't know. Maybe, did you see it from this angle?

00:31:25.480 It might, it's, it's nuts. And this stuff catches fire and it grows out of proportion and it's

00:31:30.700 total insanity. So when I saw what was happening for Erica Kirk, a woman who I cannot imagine

00:31:37.540 being in her shoes with two young children, having to go through this, endure watching her husband

00:31:43.120 murdered, and then figuring out life forever on the other side of that with her kids. She deserves

00:31:49.640 respect. She deserves people to help prop her up and try to support her during what I can imagine

00:31:56.740 is probably the most awful year of her entire life. And instead of that, she got people who

00:32:01.280 I think at one time she probably considered friends coming after her in such an aggressive

00:32:07.040 way that I just, you know, for us in our family, it hit very close to home, like I said. And so

00:32:13.580 I just felt like with this trial coming up, I think it's so important that all the information

00:32:21.020 is disseminated, that there's full transparency, because I think people out there need to

00:32:25.860 appreciate that what you read online, as you said, Riley, is not real life. Check your sources.

00:32:32.700 Go seek out more information because some crazy podcaster out there is not giving you the full

00:32:39.460 picture in terms of what's going on. And I would say that for a whole host of things,

00:32:43.200 but specifically with this stuff, I think Erica Kirk is an incredible woman. I hope God gives

00:32:50.040 her the strength to see her through this upcoming trial. I cannot imagine again what this must be

00:32:55.660 like for her, but we should all be supporting her. We should all be praying for her and we should

00:33:00.880 all be praying that justice is served and that all the information comes out. You know, I think

00:33:06.540 people are so critical of her because God has given her the strength and it is like, it's a

00:33:11.140 relatively unnatural thing when you see someone who is so strong in their faith. Like I try and

00:33:16.680 put myself in her shoes, which is impossible to do. And I recognize that, but watching that

00:33:21.660 memorial service and what was it like 10 11 days after charlie had been murdered in front of

00:33:28.580 thousands there on campus but millions online where this video will live on the internet forever

00:33:33.000 erica chose to get up there and forgive her husband's assassin like only through god can a

00:33:38.720 grieving widow do that and so i think normal people even people who call themselves christians

00:33:43.400 they they look at that and they see it as unnatural but guess what it's because it is

00:33:47.600 unnatural. Like, like only supernatural. It is. Oh my gosh. It is. It is. Um, yeah,

00:33:54.180 she is one of the, the strongest, most compassionate, most, most, I mean, just

00:34:00.020 what's, what's even a good word. Like, I think what she displayed was serene. It was total

00:34:05.520 serenity and strength. So I'm right there with you. Uh, you've alluded to like trusting in God

00:34:11.280 and your faith, uh, several times now, what does it mean to you? Like, like, how does your faith

00:34:16.700 guide you in all that you do in your marriage, in your political career, in your media career,

00:34:24.020 being a mom? What does your faith mean to you? It's funny because I think back to the moment

00:34:31.140 I drove out of my parents' driveway in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to move to New

00:34:35.480 York City, my gosh, 18, 19 years ago. Honestly, Riley, I had no idea what was in store for me,

00:34:44.300 but I prayed about it. And I feel like I have done that in every moment of my life that has

00:34:51.540 mattered. I've prayed and asked God to guide me. And look, every person out there can do the same

00:34:57.700 thing. You have to listen. You have to be open to receiving what kind of God's direction. And

00:35:04.060 I feel like it has led me to some of the most incredible places imaginable. I never in my

00:35:10.420 wildest dreams would have imagined I'd be part of a first family. I would have a show on Fox News.

00:35:16.700 I would have these two incredible children and an amazing husband. It's just, God is so great,

00:35:22.580 but he has guided me down this path. And I feel like he will continue to guide me. And so

00:35:28.540 in everything I do, whether it's being a mom, a wife, in my career, before I go on TV,

00:35:34.240 before any television hit, I say a prayer to God to, to make my word smart and strong and serve

00:35:40.660 his will. And I do it every single time. And I feel like that that is the foundation of, of

00:35:47.820 everything. And I wish more people understood the power that exists there that, you know, it is,

00:35:55.040 it's endless and we should all be able to tap into that. And it doesn't matter where you are.

00:36:00.880 And that's the thing I'm trying to teach my kids right now too. It's funny because

00:36:03.640 they ask about praying. We say prayers with them before bed at night. And my daughter asked me

00:36:09.300 something the other day. She was like, but when can I talk to God, mom? And I said, you can talk

00:36:13.060 to God whenever you want. All you have to do is stop what you're doing. And she was like, do I

00:36:16.820 have to say it out loud? I said, no, you can say it. You can be quiet about it, or you can say it

00:36:21.060 in your head. He's going to hear you and he's going to answer you. And it's amazing to see my

00:36:26.040 kids now kind of picking up. As you say, they're watching everything we do. They're absorbing so

00:36:32.420 much more than we ever anticipate them doing. This space is a space where I'm really proud of

00:36:37.820 where we've led our kids for sure. That's so awesome. And yeah, it's true. Even if those

00:36:44.720 listening or watching this aren't necessarily strong in their faith, maybe they're tinkering

00:36:48.680 with the idea of going to church. It's never too late or never too early. There's never the right

00:36:54.780 moment or wrong moment. It's now. It's do it now. What do you have to lose? Just try it.

00:36:59.420 And you lose nothing by trying, especially in prayer.

00:37:02.100 It's not like it requires time out of your day or extra thought.

00:37:06.420 It's literally just having a personal conversation.

00:37:10.640 Recently, our company's softball team lost the big game by one run.

00:37:14.960 Then Dale tried to console us with the quote, winning isn't everything.

00:37:19.280 Well, Dale and I are very different.

00:37:22.960 I get early payout from Bet365.

00:37:24.880 If my team goes up big, I get paid out instantly, even if they blow the lead later.

00:37:29.420 sound familiar dale thanks beth 365 must be 19 or older ontario only please play responsibly if

00:37:35.520 you have questions or concerns about your gambling or the gambling of someone close to you please go

00:37:38.260 to connects ontario.ca tnc supply to god um so that's amazing okay rapid fire for you last

00:37:45.180 last thing you ready ready okay irrational fear that you have spiders and cockroaches i can't do

00:37:52.980 it i i am so so courageous you used the word earlier and so many different things you throw

00:37:58.600 a spider or cockroach. It means not happening. A spider web in my face. I'm done. Okay. Hidden

00:38:02.960 talent. Oh my gosh. Well, I am a pastry chef, which not a lot of people know. I moved to New

00:38:09.280 York to go to culinary school. Now my husband would argue that I haven't baked him a cake in

00:38:13.920 ages, but maybe this is the week I'm going to do it. Maybe this will be my inspo. So yeah,

00:38:18.280 I'm a pastry chef. Okay. Last time you cried. Oh my gosh. Probably. You know what? We,

00:38:26.780 we went to, we, we did a trip to Camp David and our son got up, you know, speaking of, of religion

00:38:33.820 and the power of it, our son got up. They have a chapel there at Camp David. Our son got up and

00:38:39.460 wanted to read a prayer. The, um, the pastor there said, did any of the kids want to come up?

00:38:43.980 Our son got up and read a prayer and it was a waterworks. Forget it. Like not, not even close.

00:38:48.340 Yeah. Good. Guilty pleasure, like comfort food, I guess. Peanut butter. If you just like, yeah,

00:38:54.780 as much as I can get. And if it had no calories, I would just eat it all the time.

00:38:58.720 Okay. Morning person or night owl. We kind of morning, morning person. Yeah. Coffee in the

00:39:03.600 morning. I'm ready to go. Okay. Luxury item that is worth the money. Ooh, great sheets. I mean,

00:39:11.200 you're sleeping in these things, right? Yeah. It's gotta be good sheets. Okay. Uh, something

00:39:16.260 you've changed your mind about in the past few years, John Fetterman. Yeah, I know random,

00:39:22.600 right but i think i just i think he's so common sense who would have thought not not me but he is

00:39:29.640 it is like when john fetterman is is the most sane person in the democratic party at any level by the

00:39:35.360 way like local state and federal then yeah that that's a incredible respect for him yeah yeah

00:39:41.060 okay what's one thing one opinion you have that would get you canceled oh my gosh well we've

00:39:48.660 talked about not gentle parenting. Yeah, I can't do it. Um, I don't know that it would get me

00:39:54.300 canceled, but it might get me arrested. If I ever see someone out there being abusive in any way to

00:39:59.400 an animal, I told my husband time and time again, you're probably going to come and have to bail me

00:40:03.700 out of jail. Cause I might kill that person. You know, there it, it's so true. Uh, there is 0.99

00:40:08.980 nothing like an animal's love your love for an animal. I have three dogs. We've got alpacas and

00:40:15.240 donkeys and cows and a horse and all the things. And it really is like an unconditional kind of

00:40:21.640 love. And I love my husband and I love my child, of course. But their trust in you is so, it's so

00:40:27.860 different and it's just so great. I mean, dog spelled backwards is God, as they say. I don't

00:40:33.760 know what's going on there, but they're a gift and they're so special. And any animal out there

00:40:39.100 I ever see, watch out because if you see me, I'm coming for you. I love that. Okay. Last,

00:40:44.560 last thing, one piece of marriage advice. Never stop dating your spouse. Whenever people get

00:40:52.540 married, I think they have this idea that it's just sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows the whole

00:40:57.400 time. And I'll be the first one to tell you, you got to work at it. You got to do maintenance on

00:41:02.020 a car. You got to do maintenance on a house. You have to do maintenance on everything. You have to

00:41:06.460 do maintenance on your relationship and you got to check in with your spouse. And I think the best

00:41:10.580 way to do that. Set aside a date night every week. Eric and I do this. It doesn't matter who shows up

00:41:16.620 in town and they're like, Hey, want to grab dinner? We're like, no, because we set this date night up

00:41:21.280 for ourselves. You have to keep dating your spouse. And I promise you it's worth it. Get

00:41:26.940 through the tough times and your relationship is even stronger on the other end. It's like building

00:41:30.900 a muscle, Riley, you know, put a little, put the work in. Maybe it hurts a little bit. You're going

00:41:36.320 to get through it and it's going to be so much better on the other side, even stronger.

00:41:40.200 I love it. I love it. Well, thank you so much for joining the Riley Gaines show. And hopefully next

00:41:44.820 time we'll get to do it in person. Yes. We'll see you in person. You're the best Riley. Thank you

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - July 21, 2026

Lara Trump on Faith, Family, Fitness, and Raising Kids Without Screens ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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