{"id":333,"date":"2026-05-23T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:36:39","slug":"flailing-trump-pleas-for-moms-to-save-his-career-they-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Flailing Trump pleas for &#8216;moms&#8217; to save his career \u2014 they won\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last week President Donald Trump issued a sop to mothers with a new website that purports to be a one-stop shop of useful information for mothers. Tressie McMillan Cottom called the website \u201cunderwhelming,\u201d but its existence \u201cis a rare concession that Trump is very unpopular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=331\">\u2018He was very involved\u2019: Sources call out Trump\u2019s big slush fund lie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if Trump\u2019s looking for moms to save him and his party in November, it\u2019s looking like they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBucolic imagery of a faceless pregnant woman standing in a golden field dominates the homepage. A lot of real estate is also dedicated to controversial \u2018pregnancy centers,\u2019 code for places that distribute conservative anti-abortion counseling masquerading as health care. It is mostly a sloppy rebranding of culture war talking points,\u201d said Cottom, adding that it\u2019s not going to do a thing for an army of indifferent mothers who have turned on the president and his policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe push to remind his base that Trump loves the conservative mothers who voted for him is about three realities closing in on him. The midterms are critical to the president\u2019s agenda. MAGA moms are important to his midterm fortunes. And the moms are not happy,\u201d said Cottom.<\/p>\n<p>Trump managed to capture the White House in 2024 with MAHA moms embracing the removal of fluoride from water, reducing or eliminating vaccine requirements, supporting organic school lunches and removing food dyes from packaged foods. Women are great mobilizers, said Cottom. And plenty of mothers mobilized churches, communities and customers for Trump, while couching Trump\u2019s anti-mother policies in white conservative motherhood. But more than a year into Trump\u2019s second term the political downside is starting to emerge, said Cottom as Trump finds it easier to celebrate mothers than deliver for them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=329\">Donald Trump Jr. pushing \u2018dangerous clown show\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAHA moms are terrified of the unemployed zombies artificial intelligence is turning their kids into. Yet this administration has \u201cgone all in on empowering Silicon Valley to unleash attention heroin indiscriminately on the nation\u2019s kids,\u201d said Cottom. MAHA mom\u2019s also trusted Trump to ban the neurotoxin glyphosate, but Trump put his own name on an executive order protecting its continued production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot every MAHA mom is a MAGA ideologue,\u201d warns Cottom. \u201cMany of them are simply anxious about a health care system that is anti-woman when the stakes of health care are at a historical premium. But the MAHA moms were willing to make a deal with the devil when they elected Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is undoubtedly still the ringleader of MAGA. But his coalition is not content and it is not permanent,\u201d said Cottom. \u201cWhen it comes to the complex, messy politics of motherhood, the midterms will soon arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=326\">Columnist has \u2018no sympathy\u2019 for the \u2018terrible\u2019 choice Republicans left themselves<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week President Donald Trump issued a sop to mothers with a new website that purports to be a one-stop shop of useful information for mothers. 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