Lara Trump mocked the Met Gala during an interview on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, dismissing the celebrity-packed event as a “freak show” before drawing mockery online herself over a joke that invitations to the Trump family had “got lost in the mail.”
Ingraham joked that President Donald Trump “sat home last night; he was crushed that Anna had banned him for sure now.” The remark referenced Anna Wintour, the longtime chair of the Met Gala, who said in 2017 that the president would never again be invited to the event.
“Yeah, he can barely function, I’m sure. This is very devastating to the president,” Lara Trump replied about her father-in-law, sarcastically, before arguing that the event had changed dramatically over the years.
She said the gala was once a “very elegant and kind of regal in some ways affair” but had now “devolved into a bit of a freak show.”
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been accused of cozying up to the Trump administration in recent years, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, were the 2026 event’s honorary chairs and lead sponsors, and attracted criticism over it too.
