While Melania Trump’s documentary premiere made headlines this month, another member of the First Family has been quietly pursuing a different kind of spotlight. Former RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump was filmed on the set of a music video in Miami, collaborating with Egyptian superstar Mohamed Ramadan on a track titled “Sah-Sah.”
Footage recorded in September but gaining traction this weekend shows the President’s daughter-in-law trading verses and dance moves with Ramadan, who commands over 31 million Instagram followers and is set to become the first Egyptian artist to headline Madison Square Garden this May. The Daily Beast described the scene as “murder on the dance floor.” The track drops January 23.
I didn’t think there could be anything worse than Lara Trump singing… but I was wrong. pic.twitter.com/0VJ4t0yqbp
— Political Punk (@actingliketommy) January 17, 2026
A Brief History of Lara Trump’s Music Career
For those who haven’t been keeping track, “Sah-Sah” represents the latest chapter in what has been a persistently criticized musical journey.
2023: The Tom Petty Era
It started with a cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”—a choice that carried baggage, given that the Petty estate had issued a cease-and-desist to the Trump campaign in 2020 for using the song at rallies. “Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” the family wrote at the time. “Tom Petty would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate.”
Lara Trump’s cover debuted in the top 10 of Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart. Listeners were less impressed. One called it “bad autotuned karaoke.” Another said they “couldn’t believe how bad it was” and that they had been “prepared for the horror that she might have a great voice,” only to find it “embarrassingly awful.”
At the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Colin Jost addressed Trump directly: “She recently released a cover of ‘I Won’t Back Down.’ Upon hearing it, Tom Petty died again. I can’t believe I’m saying this to a member of the Trump family, but maybe stick to politics.”
2024: The Firefighter Tribute
Undeterred, Trump followed up with “Hero,” a piano-driven ballad honoring first responders. The music video featured Trump singing on a fire escape in an evening gown. Political strategist Rick Wilson described the vocals as sounding like “a wild hog and a sack of rusty cans being thrown into an industrial wood chipper.”
The top comment on the official YouTube video read: “Lara Trump, thank you! I have been paralyzed for ten years and when I heard this song, I actually stood up and walked over to my TV to turn it off. The doctors say I should consider you my hero!”
Other reactions included: “Every note is a violation of the Geneva Convention,” and “My dogs were rough-housing until I turned up the volume to hear the voice. They stopped and howled.”
Political commentator Travis Akers offered: “If your ears have been exposed to the abominable sounds of Lara Trump singing, you might be entitled to compensation.”
The Jimmy Kimmel Incident
In April 2024, Jimmy Kimmel sent a crew to a Los Angeles farmers market to play Trump’s single “Anything Is Possible” for pedestrians, telling them it was a leaked Taylor Swift track from The Tortured Poets Department.
“Honestly, I don’t know who that is; it’s not very good,” one listener said. Another described it as “really, really robotic—more like AI.” When asked to summarize the song in three words, one woman offered: “Try a-gain.”
When told it was actually Lara Trump, relief washed over them. “That makes way more sense,” was the general consensus.
2025: The International Pivot
This year brought “No Days Off,” a collaboration with Moroccan-American rapper French Montana. Rolling Stone called it “a masterclass in insipid vocal fry pop slop,” noting that “the Crisco-thick layer of autotune seemingly smothering Trump’s vocals isn’t enough to dim down the I’m-actually-just-talking-into-the-microphone quality of her ‘singing.'”
The collaboration drew backlash against French Montana from his own fans. “Guess that Muslim ban is all forgotten cuz the mighty dollar is more important,” one wrote. Another: “You definitely wanna get canceled by the black community now huh?”
Enter Mohamed Ramadan
The pairing with Ramadan emerged from Make Music Right, a conservative music initiative Trump founded to promote “traditional values” in American music. Ramadan, who has dominated Middle Eastern charts for over a decade, posted behind-the-scenes footage from the Miami shoot, including clips of himself teaching Trump’s daughter Carolina his signature “Tiger Dance” moves.
“Something great is on the horizon, inshallah,” Ramadan wrote on Instagram after their initial meeting.
Trump has since secured a distribution deal through First Class Label Group’s partnership with Warner Music Group for an upcoming EP. She also hosts a Fox News weekend show and incorporated her own music business, LT Music LLC, in April 2025.
Whether “Sah-Sah” becomes a crossover hit or joins “Hero” in the annals of widely mocked celebrity vanity projects remains to be seen. What’s certain is that no amount of critical reception—or comparisons to Geneva Convention violations—has been capable of denting her persistence.
She will not back down.
