Antonia Hitchens

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The Military’s Birthday Parade Rolls Quietly Through Trump’s Washington

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

A soldier in a Revolutionary War uniform was sitting under a tree, vaping and scrolling on his phone. It was the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary celebration in D.C., and I was looking for the entrance to their fitness competition and cake-cutting ceremony, before the big parade at night. Walking down Independence Avenue, a little before noon, I heard a din. Behind the Department of Agriculture building, thousands of soldiers were getting in formation.
The Trump-Musk Feud as Seen From D.C.’s MAGA Hotspot

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

“The Tea Party sold out to Koch, but Trump wouldn’t sell out to ketamine.” At D.C.’s MAGA hotspot, Butterworth’s, the President’s allies and fans reacted to the public break-up between Trump and Elon Musk. And, then, Daniel Immerwahr reminds us that our biggest fears about deepfakes haven’t quite yet been realized. Plus:• Miley Cyrus won’t be going on tour• Israel’s former Prime Minister thinks his country is committing war crimes• Can public media survive Trump?
The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution

1 month ago | rsn.org | Antonia Hitchens

What the replacement of Ed Martin, who punished his own prosecutors for bringing cases against January 6th rioters, signals about the President’s signature campaign promise. On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred people who were charged or sentenced for their participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred people who were charged or sentenced for their participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Earlier in the day, Trump had appointed Ed Martin, a conservative activist and lawyer from Missouri, as the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
All the President’s Sycophants

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

“No dissent,” Donald Trump recently posted on social media. Antonia Hitchens reports on the brazenly transactional ecosystem he has built, which rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. And then:Antonia Hitchens Hitchens has been writing about politics for The New Yorker since 2018. Presiding from a balcony at the White House this morning, President Trump, alongside a human-size bunny, welcomed thousands of American children to the annual Easter Egg Roll.
How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

Representative Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, recently started making videos from his office on Capitol Hill. Ogles, a Freedom Caucus member in his second term, often films himself in front of a reproduction of “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” the painting by Emanuel Leutze. “What you have here is a moment in time that comes along once in a century,” he says in a clip called “The Case for Trump 2028,” in which he proposes that the President run for a third term.
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Mar 10, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | Antonia Hitchens

Two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, I ran into a man who calls himself the Retribution Pastor by the swimming pool at Mar-a-Lago. Joel Tenney, who comes from the largest family in Iowa, had worked to turn out voters for the caucuses last January, and occasionally led the crowds at Trump rallies in prayer. ‘Retribution means justice,’ he liked to tell them.
Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”

Feb 21, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Antonia Hitchens

“I’m getting really tired of winning,” a consultant said to me the weekend after Trump was sworn in. He had convened a mixer for aspiring Administration workers and D.C. newcomers; many in the room were hungover and sniffling, in the early stages of a post-Inauguration flu. A political strategist who attended one of the inaugural balls referred to half-joking speculation, stoked by the podcaster Shawn Ryan, that China had released a “brain-fog bioweapon” into the ballroom.
Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”

Feb 21, 2025 | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

It seemed as if the inaugural festivities had barely ended by the time the first articles of impeachment were introduced. Al Green, a congressman from Texas, brought them “for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.” (“They are still a work in progress,” Green’s press secretary added.) Donald Trump had been President for two weeks, and Washington was flailing to respond to the new Administration’s tactics, which were to “flood the zone with shit,” as Steve Bannon once put it.
Donald Trump Throws the Doors to the Patriot Wing Open

Jan 26, 2025 | rsn.org | Antonia Hitchens

More than fifteen hundred of the January 6th rioters were pardoned by the President. What will they do next? The D.C. Central Detention Facility is two miles east of the U.S. Capitol, and about half a mile down the Anacostia River from the defunct R.F.K. Stadium. Execution by electric chair, and hangings before that, were once carried out in the corners of its dining rooms.