Watch: Lara Trump mocked for new single dedicated to firefighters
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Lara Trump has been mocked online for releasing a music single in which she praises the work of firefighters.
The Republican National Committee co-chairman and daughter-in-law of Donald Trump released the song last week with an emotive music video.
The lyrics of Hero, her second single co-authored with the singer-songwriter Madeline Jaymes, pay tribute to firefighters, despite Ms Trump having no known connection to the fire service.
“You’re going through the fire, and the flames getting higher. You’re my hero. You’re my hero,” the two women sing while standing on a fire escape in the video.
“You’re climbing up the ladder and the screams getting louder. You’re my hero. You’re my hero.”
The accompanying music video features photographs of firefighters and footage of them rescuing people from burning buildings.
In one shot, an apparently lifeless fire victim is dragged from a room.
Other lyrics from the song include: “Without your bravery, we’re out of luck. No, this can’t be denied. You gotta be special.”
Mrs Trump sings: “It takes a lot to put you last and everybody first. No, this can’t be for likes. With your heart, they can make gold.”
The track has been met with online derision, including from Mrs Trump’s political opponents.
Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the Left-wing Lincoln Project campaign group, said the track sounded like “a wild hog and a sack of rusty cans being thrown into an industrial wood chipper”.
Another online commentator said: “Every note is a violation of the Geneva Convention.”
Ms Jaymes, a 22-year-old artist from Kentucky, said she was recording the song when Mrs Trump asked to join her to sing.
“Lara heard the song Hero at Circle House Studios while I was there recording,” she told Florida Weekly.
“She connected with me, and we collaborated on the song and now have become good friends.”
Mrs Trump, 41, formerly Lara Yunaska, is a graduate of North Carolina State University. She spent three years working odd jobs – personal trainer, bartender and waitress – before moving to New York to attend the French Culinary Institute.
Mrs Trump became a pastry chef before switching careers again and working as a producer for the CBS television programme Inside Edition.
She married the former president’s son Eric after meeting him in a nightclub in 2008.
Mrs Trump has since become a fixture on Trump campaign teams, alongside her husband, and was in February announced as the RNC’s co-chairman.
Last year, she released a cover of Tom Petty’s song I Won’t Back Down, which she claimed had been “shadowbanned” by iTunes.
She performed the song live on air in an interview with Sky News Australia, singing the lyrics: “You can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won’t back down.”
Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, later commented: “Well I’ve never been to the gates of hell but now I’m pretty sure I know what they sound like.”
