Laura Ingraham

Overview

Laura Ingraham is the host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, a primetime perch she has held since the show’s launch in October 2017 (Adweek). Her biography page before television is unusual for cable news: she is a former litigator who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia School of Law (Leading Authorities). In September 2026, Ingraham put her show back at the center of the political conversation with a Dallas sit-down interview with Donald Trump that generated two days of headlines — over a proposed $5,000 “Trump dividend” for American adults and Trump’s openness to Chinese automakers building cars in the United States (Fox News; Reuters via The Business Standard).

The September 2026 Trump sit-down

The interview aired on September 10, 2026, ahead of the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, and Ingraham’s questions pulled Trump onto two stories that traveled well beyond her program (Fox News). The first was the “Trump dividend”: a promise to issue a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retained control of the House and Senate, framed as a corporate-style distribution funded by tariff revenue (Fox News). “We’re taking in 21 trillion dollars. No country has ever taken in anywhere near that,” Trump told Ingraham. “That’s all because of that beautiful word you and love more than most others — tariffs” (Fox News). Fox News Digital’s own report added the caveats its subject did not: the payments could cost more than $1 trillion, annual tariff revenue fell well short of the proposal’s estimated cost, and the plan would require congressional approval (Fox News).

The second headline came from the Reuters wire: Trump told Ingraham he would not oppose Chinese automakers building cars in the United States despite opposition from lawmakers and car companies — “If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be okay with that” — adding that Japan hires American workers and “they hire our people,” while insisting he did not want Chinese automakers building cars in Mexico and shipping them to the U.S. (Reuters via The Business Standard). Trump called Senator Elissa Slotkin’s warning about Chinese-car rumors a “total phony rumor,” against the backdrop of the Biden administration’s early-2025 regulation effectively banning Chinese autos and U.S. tariffs exceeding 100 percent on Chinese electric vehicles (Reuters via The Business Standard).

From law school to primetime

Ingraham’s path to Fox ran through courtrooms and radio booths rather than the usual cable-news ladder. She graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia School of Law, served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, and worked as a litigator before moving into media (Leading Authorities). Her radio program, The Laura Ingraham Show, ran nationally on hundreds of stations, and her speakers-bureau biography describes her as “the most listened-to woman in political talk radio” (Leading Authorities). She also founded LifeZette, a political and cultural website where she serves as editor (Leading Authorities).

She joined Fox News as a contributor in 2007, providing political analysis across the network’s daytime and primetime programming, and got her own show a decade later when The Ingraham Angle launched in October 2017 (Adweek). By the time the network signed her to a new multi-year deal, the program was being described as the most-watched 10 p.m. show in cable news history, in its highest-rated year averaging 3.6 million viewers and 650,000 in the 25-54 demographic (Adweek). She also co-hosts Laura & Raymond on the network’s Fox Nation streaming service with Raymond Arroyo (Adweek).

The 2018 Parkland advertiser boycott

Ingraham’s most damaging professional episode arrived in March 2018, from her own Twitter account. On March 28 she wrote to her more than 2 million followers that Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg, a high school senior, was “whining about” being rejected by four colleges, linking to an article that called Hogg a “gun rights provocateur” (NPR). Hogg — himself followed by more than 650,000 — responded by posting a numbered list of 12 of her show’s top advertisers and asking supporters to contact three or four companies each (NPR).

The exodus began on Thursday with Hulu, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Nutrish, Expedia, Stitch Fix, Johnson & Johnson, and Nestlé, and continued Friday with Entertainment Studios (which pulled all its ads for the upcoming film Chappaquiddick), Liberty Mutual, Office Depot, Miracle-Ear, Jenny Craig, Principal, Honda, Ruby Tuesday, and the Atlantis resort — with Bayer joining on Saturday (TheWrap). At least 18 major companies in total announced they were pulling sponsorship (TheWrap). The on-the-record statements were blunt: TripAdvisor said the statements “cross the line of decency,” Wayfair said “the decision of an adult to personally criticize a high school student who has lost his classmates in an unspeakable tragedy is not consistent with our values,” and Liberty Mutual CEO David Long said Ingraham’s “comments are inconsistent with our values as a company” (TheWrap).

Ingraham apologized on Thursday afternoon, writing: “On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland,” and invited Hogg to appear on her show (NPR). Hogg rejected it, saying he would accept only if she denounced the way her network had treated his friends in the gun-control fight — “It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children” (NPR). Ingraham announced she would take a two-week vacation she said was pre-planned, and the show survived: she remains in the primetime chair (TheWrap).

Books, health, and family

Ingraham is also a publishing fixture in conservative media — her speakers-bureau biography credits her with New York Times bestsellers including The Hillary Trap, Shut Up & Sing, Power to the People, and The Obama Diaries (Leading Authorities). In April 2005, in the middle of her radio career, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she kept working through chemotherapy and hair loss, and has spoken about how the diagnosis — coming about six years after she lost her mother to lung cancer roughly seven months after that diagnosis — reshaped her outlook on life (CancerConnect). She is the mother of three internationally adopted children (Leading Authorities).

What this profile does not claim

This profile does not claim an exact birth date or birthplace for Laura Ingraham — a 1963 birth year and a Glastonbury, Connecticut birthplace appear only in Wikipedia and mirror-tier pages that were not read in full, so neither is stated here. It does not repeat the claim that she was the first female editor of The Dartmouth Review, which appears only in a low-quality outlet. It does not name her children or give their adoption dates, which come only from content-farm sources. It does not claim a launch year for her radio show or a Fox News salary, which rest on snippet-level reporting. The queue’s mention of a September 18, 2026 interview could not be independently verified; the September 10, 2026 Dallas sit-down is the verified recent interview and is the only one described.