How journalism works in America in 2025: Fox News, the president’s favourite broadcaster, gets given a lengthy sit-down interview with the leader of the free world. Who does it choose as its interviewer? Why, Lara Trump, wife of his third child, Eric, and a woman whom Donald Trump is pushing heavily for a Senate seat in North Carolina. Frost/Nixon it was not.

Lara began the hardball interview with: “I think when people look at the first six months of this administration, you have had more success, I think, than many presidents in history throughout the term of their entire term in office,” before commending him for “a knack for putting people around you who are successful and make you even more successful”.

But it was her final question that was the killer. “I don’t think anyone will ever forget President Donald J Trump. But when history looks back on this time in our country, when history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?”

Trump responded that he wanted to be remembered as “a good person, but a person that saved our country”. He also ruminated on the recent Texas floods and how aid could have arrived more swiftly. “Maybe they should’ve had bells or something go off,” he said.