He’s been a preferred title bandied about to fill a job within the potential future administration of GOP presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump.
However is Vivek Ramaswamy taking a web page out of a unique Trump playbook as a substitute?
In response to a Fox Information launch, Ramaswamy — a tech entrepreneur-turned-GOP presidential hopeful and staunch Trump ally — does certainly seem like leaning extra in the direction of “The Apprentice” than POTUS.
For the unfamiliar, lengthy earlier than Trump was a political tour de drive, he was a tv star who loved his personal actuality tv sequence and appearances in WWE, amongst different notable roles.
“FOX Nation has tapped former Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to host a brand new sequence for the platform, introduced Lauren Petterson, president of the streaming service,” the Monday Fox Information launch learn.
Deliberate to premiere in a matter of days on Sept. 22, this new enterprise between Ramaswamy and Fox is known as “Truths with Vivek Ramaswamy.”
Will probably be part of the aforementioned Fox Nation streaming platform and can air on Sundays.
A “condensed model” of Ramaswamy’s new present will subsequently air on Fox Information correct.
Condensed or not, Fox made it clear that Ramaswamy can be wading into some contentious subjects.
“Over the course of the sequence, Mr. Ramaswamy lays out a optimistic various to the left’s imaginative and prescient for the longer term by presenting exhausting ‘truths’ that the American conservative motion should embrace with subjects, together with American nationwide identification, the continuing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and the protests on U.S. faculty campuses, faith and extra,” the discharge said.
“We’re excited to launch this new sequence showcasing Mr. Ramaswamy’s considerate and distinctive perspective on the state of American politics after his meteoric rise over the past 12 months,” Petterson said as a part of the discharge.
That “meteoric rise” largely got here when Ramaswamy burst onto the scene of the Republican primaries final 12 months, the place many considered the now-39-year-old firebrand as a breath of contemporary air in an in any other case stodgy-feeling GOP.
So spectacular was Ramaswamy’s temporary foray into GOP politics, he was linked to Trump as a potential vice presidential candidate (which ultimately went to J.D. Vance), in addition to a possible future role in a second potential Trump administration.
Now, nevertheless, Ramaswamy’s quick future will embrace a extra literal highlight and much more tv make-up — and clear questions.
Aside from the debut of “Truths,” Fox additionally famous that previous to that present’s Sept. 22 debut, Ramaswamy can be taking questions from viewers in a unique present.
“Within the lead as much as the premiere, FOX Nation may also launch ‘Simply Ask: Vivek Ramaswamy’ on Friday, Sept. 20, during which Mr. Ramaswamy solutions questions from an viewers, with nothing off the desk,” Fox famous. This occasion will happen in Philadelphia and be an hour-long.
Ramaswamy did observe that he had a e book coinciding with these new digital ventures.
“At present conservatives know what we’re in opposition to,” Ramaswamy stated. “However what precisely can we stand FOR? To reply that query, we have to speak to each American, not simply those that agree with us. That’s the topic of my new e book ‘TRUTHS: The Way forward for America-First,’ and I loved partnering with FOX Nation to host provocative dinner desk conversations that we not often have in our nation anymore.”
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.