Tressie McMillan Cottom

Can MAGA Survive Without Its Moms?

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

President Trump loves moms, and last week he announced a whole new website — moms.gov — to prove it to you.

At an event just after Mother’s Day, the president, flanked by a phalanx of maternal health advocates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, reminded the public that he was the “father of fertility” and presented the website, which purports to be a one-stop shop of useful information for mothers. In reality, the online resource is light on useful information or new proposals. It is best understood as a way to highlight this administration’s beliefs about which women count and which mothers matter.

Bucolic imagery of a faceless pregnant woman standing in a golden field dominates the homepage. A lot of real estate is also dedicated to controversial “pregnancy centers,” code for places that distribute conservative........

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