Amanda Marcotte

Senior Politics Writer at Salon

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Articles

Ben Shapiro is cracking under the pressure to shill for Trump

1 day ago | salon.com | Amanda Marcotte

No one was more relieved than Daily Wire commentator Ben Shapiro when Donald Trump announced a 90-day “pause” on Chinese tariffs.
Two dolls for you, palace in the sky for Trump

2 days ago | salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com | Amanda Marcotte

Republicans released their plan to dramatically slash Medicaid on Sunday night, a sure sign that they hope to hide the whole thing from the public. It’s reminiscent of the way Trump’s team believes they can trick voters into supporting tariffs by lying about inflation or pretending to cut “deals” that offer no price relief to consumers. After all, Republicans have successfully bamboozled voters into believing that cities are burned down by Black Lives Matter or kids are pooping in litter boxes.
Texas GOP wants to ban kids from playing dress-up: Yes, really

3 days ago | salon.com | Amanda Marcotte

"This whole thing is just weird and, honestly, a little creepy." That comes from a debate in the Texas state legislature that was supposedly about "furries," a subculture of people who dress up as anthropomorphic animal characters. But it wasn't the furries that state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat, was calling creepy. That would be Republican state Rep.
Trump’s Deportation Lies Are Nothing New: Remember Bush, WMD and Iraq?

4 days ago | smirkingchimp.com | Amanda Marcotte

— from Salon Virtually everyone understands the real reason why Donald Trump is sending ICE agents to round up immigrants who have no criminal record and then send them to a gulag in El Salvador. Trump is a lifelong flat-out racist who is being steered by deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, a guy who virtually inhales white nationalist conspiracy theories.
Trump’s deportation lies are nothing new: Remember Bush, WMD and Iraq?

6 days ago | salon.com | Amanda Marcotte

Virtually everyone understands the real reason why Donald Trump is sending ICE agents to round up immigrants who have no criminal record and then send them to a gulag in El Salvador. Trump is a lifelong flat-out racist who is being steered by deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, a guy who virtually inhales white nationalist conspiracy theories.
New Pope has one thing going for him

6 days ago | salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com | Amanda Marcotte

Whether you believe JD Vance killed Pope Francis , we can safely say he’s not going to love the new head honcho of Catholicism. Pope Leo XIV is American, Peruvian, and, as a graduate of Villanova University, I assume he’s a March Madness fan. But in his previous life as Cardinal Robert Prevost, he was dunking on the vice president on X.
“Two Dolls” for Christmas: Trump Resorts to Sexism To Sell Tariffs

1 week ago | smirkingchimp.com | Amanda Marcotte

— from Salon The first time Donald Trump opined about how many dolls a little girl should have, it seemed he was speaking off the cuff, as he often does, about a subject he knows nothing about. During one of his fake "Cabinet meetings" — which are better described as mandatory praise provision from his underlings — Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters.
TikTok’s “Jesus Glow” Trend Exposes the Emptiness of Social Media Religion

1 week ago | smirkingchimp.com | Amanda Marcotte

— from Salon Forget drinking water and exercise. According to the Christian influencers of TikTok, the hottest new beauty trend is accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and savior. The still-unbanned social media site is currently awash in before-and-after videos from people purporting to be recent converts, celebrating their physical transformation from alleged misfit to their current "Jesus glow" status. There's the former goth who now sports a prairie dress look.
Trump's "two dolls" gambit swipes the misogyny MAGA uses to sell tariffs

1 week ago | salon.com | Amanda Marcotte

The first time Donald Trump opined about how many dolls a little girl should have, it seemed he was speaking off the cuff, as he often does, about a subject he knows nothing about. During one of his fake "Cabinet meetings" — which are better described as mandatory praise provision from his underlings — Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters.
"Two dolls" for Christmas: Trump resorts to sexism to sell tariffs

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Amanda Marcotte

The first time Donald Trump opined about how many dolls a little girl should have, it seemed he was speaking off the cuff, as he often does, about a subject he knows nothing about. During one of his fake "Cabinet meetings" — which are better described as mandatory praise provision from his underlings — Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters.