Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to heap praise on the president following his widely criticized remarks at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, going so far as to say her father-in-law “has saved more lives” than anyone in her lifetime.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham was joined by Lara Trump to discuss the critical fallout from Davos, and played clips of Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) calling Donald Trump “unstable” and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stating that Trump “wants to control American cities” and the 2026 midterm elections.
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“They are so severely suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, obviously all of them,” Lara Trump said Wednesday. “And the only people who are happy about that are probably their therapists, who are getting rich off of these individuals, because it’s an incurable syndrome.”
In his meandering 70-minute speech on Wednesday, Trump referred to Greenland as “Iceland” multiple times, claimed Europeans call him “daddy” and told his Swiss audience that they would “all be speaking German” if it weren’t for the U.S.
Lara Trump then credited her father-in-law for a drastic drop in fatal drug overdoses.
“There were around 100,000 deaths a year by illicit drug overdoses, 20% decline in that, that’s 20,000 lives here in the United States of America that this president has saved,” she told Ingraham, adding: “The wars he’s ended around the world, the lives he’s saved by doing that — I would argue this president has probably saved more lives around the world than anyone else single-handedly in my lifetime.”
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The president’s frequent boast of having ended numerous wars around the world has already been fact-checked, and critics on social media accurately credited the drop in fatal overdoses to former President Joe Biden.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association counting the 800,645 overdose deaths of U.S. residents between January 2015 and October 2024 found that the rate began declining in August 2023 — before plummeting in the last nine months.