MAHA Moms Get ‘Gift’ From Kennedy as Critics Lambaste the First Lady Over Her Mother’s Day Message

As MAHA moms get a nod of the hat from the Trump administration on Mother’s Day, the White House is fending off backlash against a Mother’s Day message in the Washington Post penned by First Lady Melania Trump.In the Friday op-ed, the first lady, who has made foster care and reunification of mothers and children torn apart by war two of her personal projects at the White House, wrote that motherhood is integrally tied to democracy. As a result, the “evolution of the American family” is tied to “preserving the elements of the past that have proved their worth.” “The household is our nation’s smallest institution, yet it is the foundation of all others, including democracy itself. The values cultivated in homes often shape the moral voice of the next generation. Looking ahead, we must consider how to strengthen this vital role,” she wrote, adding that feminism frequently “placed career above family, with consequences to our nation.”Saying that “women can thrive in both motherhood and business,” Mrs. Trump encouraged women to practice self-care even as they put their children first. She praised the “strength and dedication of single mothers in America, who often handle these responsibilities alone” while calling for “a new American model that restores the honor of motherhood by encouraging all women to lead boldly at work while also making family the cornerstone of our national future.”Typical of reaction to almost anything the first lady says, critics piled on, including those who called Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos a sycophant for publishing the story. “Melania Trump writing about ‘restoring the honor of motherhood’ and saying feminism supposedly placed careers above family, while sitting on essentially unlimited resources, childcare, wealth, and support is rich. Meanwhile American mothers are drowning,” wrote a doctor, Nisha Patel, who pointed out that paid maternity leave is not universal and childcare is increasingly unaffordable. With 73.9 percent of women in the workforce having children under age 18 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Patel added, “Mothers didn’t ‘choose careers over family.’ Most are trying to survive in a country that makes motherhood unnecessarily hard.” In an attempt to show support for the first lady, the White House offered multiple tributes to Mrs. Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance on Sunday in honor of Mother’s Day. Novelist Ann Bauer clapped back more forcefully against those criticizing the first lady. “Remember, the people who are ‘savaging’ a message about motherhood being critical to the nation (an idea SO BASIC, it almost reads as bland) also want to sell you polyamory, estrangement & gender dysphoria. Govt control is their ideal. Family is the enemy,” she wrote on X.As the clash over Mrs. Trump’s pro-family statements raged through the weekend, the Health and Human Services Department rolled out a new site, Moms.gov, on Sunday granting a small offering to newborns and expectant moms in a bid to gain traction with the women supporting the administration through the make America healthy again movement. MAHA moms emphasize more focused attention on children’s health, more regulation of the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, cleaner food, and fewer environmental pollutants. The site, however, promotes President Trump’s initiatives for newborn bank accounts and his prescription drug site TrumpRx.com, while hosting resources on nutritional advice, pregnancy centers, and federal conscience protections for women deciding whether to keep or abort fetuses.“MAHA moms are the beating heart of the movement,” wrote Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on X. “You take responsibility for your children’s health and make the choices that shape their future. You show what it means to put family first—and to Make Children Healthy Again. Your actions don’t stop at home—they’re shaping policy and driving better health across America. Happy Mother’s Day.”A poll out last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation notes that 41 percent of voters support, including 22 percent who feel strongly, the MAHA movement. Nonetheless a majority of respondents, including a highest plurality of MAHA supporters, said the rising cost of health care is the greatest concern heading into the midterm elections. Overall, the poll showed the public strongly agrees with the MAHA pursuit of a healthier food supply and reduced pesticides in agriculture, along with greater regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. The poll showed that many fewer within MAHA and the general public overall expressed concern with vaccine schedules. Still, Mr. Trump threw a bone to the anti-vax movement Sunday in an interview aired on “Full Measure With Sheryl Attkinsson.” In the interview, the president said he would like to see vaccine schedules spread out to reduce the risk of autism in infants, even though the disease prevention schedule has never been proven to cause developmental disability. “I believe in vaccines, but I don’t believe you have to have a mandate for all of them,” he said, citing the effectiveness of the polio vaccine in eliminating the disease, but noting the much lower number of vaccinations administered to children in other countries. “I look at these beautiful babies and they get a vat, like a big glass of stuff pumped into their bodies, and I think it’s a very negative thing to do. … I would love to see much smaller shots, like four visits to the doctor, and I think you would have a much better result with the autism.”

MAHA Moms Get ‘Gift’ From Kennedy as Critics Lambaste the First Lady Over Her Mother’s Day Message

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