Ashley Parker

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I remain skeptical about Twitter. Also: @TheAtlantic staff writer. @MSNBC analyst. And @washingtonpost + @nytimes alum. Email: aparker@theatlantic.com.

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1Jul 25, '24I’ll just say: Endorsement as a stepmom from your partner’s ex is possibly… the hardest endorsement in the whole damn world.22×2M54k4.4k601
2Nov 24, '24Sunday morning trip to the grocery store. Classic of the genre.20.1×1.8M41k1.2k995
3Nov 9, '20Fox News just cut away from @PressSec, saying the network could not in good conscience continue to air her false claims, for which she has provided no supporting evidence.16.5×053k9.2k429
4Oct 25, '24Welp, that's certainly a new type of October Surprise.13.3×1.2M5.3k247131
5Nov 14, '20From Spicer to McEnany...the Trump administration ends as it began: With a lie about crowd size.12.5×048k6.4k160
6Jun 21, '20Is...the crowd literally applauding because the president just... drank water...with... just one hand?11.5×048k4.2k59
7Mar 17, '20🎉🎈🎊 Today, amid all the grim news, I just found out that — 15 years after graduating from college — I’ve finally paid off my last student loan. So there’s that. 💰💵👏🏻10.8×052k1.1k35
8Jan 3, '21NEW: Trump is expected to give Rep. Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — on Monday, and to give the same award to Rep. Jim Jordan n8.0×011k3.1k181
9Jan 6, '22“He’s a DEFEATED former president.” —Biden, w/o ever mentioning his name, forcefully calls out Trump as the one thing he fears the most: A loser.6.7×029k2.6k42
10Sep 21, '21Worth noting that Biden ran for office promising to restore democracy after 4 years of Trump. But today it was the British leader, NOT the American one, who spotlighted a key tenet6.6×020k3.4k118
11Apr 22, '20Trump just marched CDC director Redfield out to claim he was misquoted by the WaPo. But in fact, Redfield just confirmed the entire story — below — said he was quoted 100 percent a6.3×018k6.1k159
12Jul 16, '18Putin, a former KGB spy chief, has a pretty good poker face. BUT even he looks like he can't believe his luck, as Trump stands next to him, on foreign soil, and trashes his own int6.1×020k5.7k30
13May 5, '20NEW: A volunteer on Kushner's coronavirus response effort was so worried by what they saw that they filed a complaint w House Oversight. W/ @yabutaleb75.4×014k5.8k193
14Aug 24, '20NEWS: Kellyanne Conway is leaving the White House at the end of this month. She told the president tonight, in the Oval Office. My story —>5.3×013k3.3k183
15Jul 11, '20Trump looks...totally fine (and even — dare I say — presidential!) in a mask. I’m confused why it took so long for him to do the responsible thing, following his own CDC’s guidelin5.2×05.4k46848
16Oct 9, '20AFTER TWO FULL HOURS CHATTING W RUSH LIMBAUGH, it is Limbaugh who finally tries to wrap Trump, saying: "I know you’ve got a jam-packed day left on your schedule..."5.2×020k2.6k67
17Oct 11, '20If Trump had actually tested negative for Covid — and we have no indication that he has — it seems like something he’d want his doctor to put out, clearly and asap. Or something to5.0×019k3.2k37
18Jul 22, '17This is false. Don Jr. only revealed his emails once he learned the NYT already had them, in an attempt to pre-empt the story.4.8×014k5k0
19Jan 6, '21Mitt Romney — ever a consummate rule follower — is also unfailingly polite. That is the takeaway here.4.7×018k2k544
20Mar 20, '19Also, why is it considered the ultimate insult to call a man “Mr. [Insert Wife’s Name Here]”?4.7×018k2k17
21Sep 15, '17"Do the women get to talk around here?" Nancy Pelosi asked at one point, during Wednesday's White House dinner.4.4×012k4.4k0
22Aug 3, '21"I do it with everyone," is an interesting defense of sexually inappropriate behavior.4.1×017k1.7k67
23Jan 23, '21No, iPhone, in the year of our Lord 2021 — after the year of our Lord 2020 — I never mean “ducking.”4.0×018k1k59
24Jun 5, '18Scott. Pruitt. Used. His. Government. Position. To. Try. To. Score. His. Wife. A. Chick-Fil-A. Franchise. That is all.4.0×09.8k4.4k22
25Sep 5, '18THE OPED IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING!3.9×015k2.1k11
26Jan 20, '25All I want is a live-stream trained directly on George W. Bush.3.9×356k9k293115
27Sep 14, '20Fox News is not taking Trump live from Vegas, and neither are any of the THREE C-SPANs. 😨3.8×015k1.7k30
28Jul 27, '20An almost pathological inability to admit error. A penchant for magical thinking. A positive, self-reenforcing feedback loop from aides and Fox News. @PhilipRucker and I go inside 3.6×011k3.2k231
29Oct 11, '19“Son of a bitch.” “Hell.” “Barack Obama’s ass.” This is a heckuva rally for The Pences to watch from the wings, straightfaced and barely blinking3.6×012k2.1k32
30Nov 6, '20Steve. Bannon’s. Lawyer. Quits. After. Bannon. Calls. For. Dr. Fauci. To. Be. Beheaded.3.5×013k2.2k95
31Feb 8, '18Pence in Tokyo said he’d just learned about the allegations of domestic abuse against Rob Porter this morning. He declined to answer a follow up about why he often seems out of the3.5×011k2.9k0
32Apr 26, '20Over the past three weeks, Trump has spoken for 13 hours at coronavirus pressers. In that time he has: —Spent two hours on the attack. —45 min praising himself/his team. —9 min pro3.4×08.4k3.8k158
33Oct 4, '20The attending physician at Walter Reed weighs in—>3.4×010k3.2k49
34Aug 9, '20He tweets, he hollers, he riffs, he obfuscates. But increasingly, the world is just ignoring Trump. My latest:3.3×08.4k2.2k110
35Jan 19, '21So excited to become the WaPo’s new WH Buro Chief — filling some v big @PhilipRucker shoes, right down to the elaborate, color-coded (!) White House duty rotation Google doc. And #3.1×013k64455
36Jul 22, '20A brief, purely anecdotal look at why the country and economy are struggling to re-open: I took a Covid test last Monday. It has now been 10 days, and I still don’t have my results3.1×011k2.1k29
37Oct 17, '19💯🚨💯🚨The Washington Post just changed it’s parental leave policy: Now each parent gets 20 weeks — five months — of PAID leave. Yet another reason the Post is such a great place 3.1×013k1.3k26
38Sep 6, '19That hurricane map doctored by thick black Sharpie? The scribbler was Trump himself, @ToluseO + @jdawsey1 report.3.1×07.9k2.8k63
39Dec 25, '20After (unsuccessful) trips to our room at 2:30 am and 3 am, the 9-yr-old re-appeared at dawn, pushing the 2-yr-old ahead of her and urging, “Okay, now go get in their bed and say, 2.9×014k40316
40Sep 21, '18Some brief anecdotal scene from the Trump rally here in Las Vegas: One woman drove in from San Diego. Another drove 16 hours from Elk City, Idaho. A man and his son flew down from 2.8×08.8k2k6
41May 26, '18Let this be instructive for the next time the president falsely claims “fake news” or fake sources... HE IS LITERALLY DENYING A SENIOR OFFICIAL WHO GAVE A WHITE HOUSE-SANCTIONED BA2.8×08k2.9k15
42Mar 4, '21I just parallel parked in a way that would stun the MD DMV employee who failed 16-year-old me when I got stuck in the turnabout box. AND I WOULD LIKE SOME RECOGNITION. 😎2.6×012k2126
43Aug 16, '19“Our movement is built on love,” Trump says, just seconds — literally mere seconds — after insulting a protestor by saying he has “a weight problem.”2.6×08k1.9k24
44Apr 14, '20Yet in the middle of this deadly pandemic that shows no obvious signs of abating, the president made clear that the paramount concern for Trump is Trump — his self-image, his media2.5×07.1k2.3k82
45Aug 7, '19As a member of today’s White House traveling press pool, we actually have no idea if this is true — because we were not allowed to witness anything. We were told the president want2.5×06.9k2.2k19
46Dec 4, '19And there you have it. Trump — mocked by world leaders in a global huddle caught on video — is now heading home without a press conference.2.5×08.6k1.5k36
47May 21, '21Tough crowd, mom.2.4×012k22153
48Sep 5, '20🍌🍌🍌Scenes from before 8 am: A request for a banana. A vigorous demand that the banana be cut. Tears when the banana was, in fact, cut — and a frantic effort to put the banana ba2.4×011k31529
49Nov 23, '20Assume senators will ask him just how he manages it all during his confirmation hearing...2.4×011k67221
50Nov 10, '20“What’s the downside of humoring him for this little bit of time? He went golfing this weekend... He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits; those lawsuits will fail; then he’ll twe2.3×04.8k909135
51Jan 16, '25Today is my first week at @TheAtlantic. Send tips — news, parenting, food and otherwise — to @aparker@theatlantic.com. And my cell/Signal is the same. Use it!2.3×214k6044223
52Jul 1, '20I feel seen. That said, I no longer get dressed, and thus have no need for new clothes.2.3×09.6k96295
53Oct 27, '18It’s not that Trump is struggling to unite the nation. It’s that unlike his predecessors, he’s simply uninterested in offering moral leadership during moments of crisis and tragedy2.3×05.9k2.3k59
54Mar 7, '19For those curious few: This is my first week back from maternity leave! I'm grateful for the four months I was able to spend w my daughter, and grateful to be back at work. So: Ple2.3×09.2k3688
55Oct 23, '18After everyone from the White House press secretary to the vice president has vouched for his claim that "Middle Easterners" have infiltrated the caravan, Trump tells reporters he 2.2×05.4k2.1k24
56Dec 19, '19It is impeachment, and it is for life. It’s historical and it’s constitutional. It’s not something Trump can squirm his way out of, or cut a hush money check to make disappear. My 2.2×07k1.8k73
57Oct 1, '20Kayleigh McEnany, when corrected, says: “Well, that’s what I have written down.” Yet another example of the sloppiness of this White House, re the truth, which has utterly eroded i2.1×07.1k1.6k41
58Nov 16, '21We have talked a lot about the reasons for mask-wearing w our toddler skeptic. Which has resulted in the inadvertent horror that now, whenever she sees a maskless person, she point2.1×09.4k44333
59Sep 23, '22“A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to why GOP leaders rolled out their plan for America wit2.0×05.5k2k73
60Nov 29, '20Inside Trump’s 20-day quest to overturn the election results, and wreak havoc upon the nation’s democracy. Sunday paper today, from me, @PhilipRucker, @jdawsey1 + @AmyEGardner.2.0×06.2k1.3k232
61Jul 27, '17To be clear: THE WHITE HOUSE COMMS DIR just called the WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF "a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac."1.9×04.1k2.3k0
62Sep 25, '19Worth noting that when McCarthy said “No one has read this transcript,” he surprised some of his own colleagues who knew he had been at the WH earlier this morning — for the explic1.9×05.6k1.8k24
63Oct 3, '20As Trump’s conditioned worsened, he and his team made the decision to send him to Walter Reed before he deteriorated further — and while he could still walk to Marine One on his ow1.9×04.9k1.8k152
64May 24, '19“Hogan Gidley, a deputy press secretary, wasn’t even in the room for the meeting, but still attested to the president’s composure.”1.9×04.9k1.7k30
65Jan 28, '21“He walks now, guys, so I’ve lost all control.”1.9×08.3k52757
66Nov 24, '17Trying to escape Montgomery Mall with my mom and my sister, I am struck by... just how difficult it would be to get banned from a mall.1.8×07.3k1.1k0
67Dec 12, '17Trump's first Tweet this morning — that he has never met or doesn't know any of the more than a dozen women who have accused him of sexual harassment — is simply false.1.8×04.3k2.3k0
68Mar 13, '20So far, two strong, smart women in the White House press corps — @Yamiche and @weijia — have asked tough questions that held Trump accountable, and prompted some news.1.8×06.8k9378
69Dec 8, '21To the person who just informed me, “Oh, you don’t need to wear a mask, I’m just wearing one because I’m not vaccinated.” NOT REASSURING.1.7×08k30320
70Oct 4, '20Things my toddler did during Dr. Conley’s news conference: Flipped backward off the couch; required MANY Eskimo kisses to stop crying; flipped the TV to HBO Latino — a channel I di1.7×07.7k35018
71May 26, '22I am v eager to read the accountability stories of how the Uvalde police managed to handcuff a father, threaten other parents w tasers... but utterly fail to apprehend the shooter 1.7×06k1.3k48
72Jul 2, '19Ivanka at G20 feels reminiscent of me in middle school.1.7×06.3k61332
73May 22, '19Classic Infrastructure Week messaging.1.6×05.7k87516
74Feb 19, '21The Ted Cruz scandal had it all: The oversize canvas tote, awaiting its beach debut! The classic dad fleece half-zip! The 6 am scramble to book a return flight! The politician blam1.6×05.2k92067
75Mar 23, '18Just your periodic and helpful reminder that just because the White House denies a story doesn’t mean it’s not true. The White House flipped out when we wrote McMaster was out last1.6×04.5k1.7k7
76Jun 3, '18Faced with the repeated White House lies on the WaPo story last summer that Trump did, in fact, dictate Don Jr.’s misleading statement... Giuliani, on ABC’s “This Week,” says: “Thi1.6×04.2k1.7k10
77Apr 27, '20This is the story the president is upset about —> Give it a read, if you have a minute.1.5×04.3k1.3k74
78Oct 28, '20Trump said he could shoot people on 5th Avenue and still not lose votes. The non-hypothetical Q is: Can he allow his supporters to end up in the hospital w hyperthermia after his t1.4×04.3k88232
79Dec 19, '19Democrats, Trump says, will" receive a big backlash at the box office" — before correctly himself to "ballot box."1.4×05k77127
80Sep 27, '18"I AM AN OPTIMISTIC GUY," he roars, red-faced and furious. "I ALWAYS TRY TO BE ON THE SUNRISE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN."1.4×05k97810
81Feb 13, '21Trump’s lawyer said he had no idea Pence was in danger. But this is simply not true. 1. Sen. Tuberville told Trump. 2. Security protocol dictates that Trump’s team would have been 1.4×04.1k1.3k50
82Jan 8, '21💉💉💉My mom — who volunteers w hospice patients, doing reiki treatments — is getting her first dose of the vaccine today, in what is perhaps the only purely good news I’ve heard a1.4×06.8k1017
83Dec 29, '21I just picked up two rapid at-home Covid tests at my local library in DC, and it was SUPER EASY and quick. Except for the parallel parking, which was catastrophic. But that may jus1.3×06.4k1683
84Feb 17, '21“Happiness is not our aim.” —my therapist, keeping it real.1.3×05.9k21035
85Jun 3, '20Stunning that Esper had no idea where he was headed. And also stunning — for different reasons — that he is sharing his experience on the record.1.3×04.4k80520
86Apr 11, '17There's a reason there's a good rule of thumb that Hitler / the Holocaust should only ever be compared to Hitler / the Holocaust.1.3×04.3k1.1k0
87Jan 7, '22Me, explaining a somewhat questionable decision involving the toddler this morning: “There’s no right way to parent!” The 10-yr-old, devastatingly: “But there is a wrong way.”1.3×06k15829
88Nov 8, '20On Saturday, Donald Trump finally became the one thing he hates the most: a loser. @jdawsey1 and I on how Trump spent this historic day.1.2×04.5k594104
89Aug 6, '20How many people have found out they have Covid simply Bc of a White House test? An Ohio Gov, a Texas congressman, at least one member of the press... Underscores just how important1.2×04.2k96115
90Jul 6, '20Worth noting that White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — speaking on behalf of the White House and President Trump — so far has repeatedly been unable to take any unambiguo1.2×04.4k7107
91Nov 14, '20Hard to underscore how little Trump cares about the Republican Party beyond himself...1.1×04.2k60930
92Feb 9, '19I would just like to the thank the bouncer who, after I forgot my wallet (w ID), finally let me into the bar after, approaching tears, I frantically showed him my baby sleep book a1.1×05.3k1496
93Aug 23, '20Day one of an utterly lovely beach vacation save for one complicating twist: A toddler who FREAKS OUT when any part of her body comes in contact w... sand. 🏖1.1×05k1046
94Oct 8, '20In many ways, Pence's ability to — calmly, politely, firmly — go well over his allotted time demonstrates how he has fashioned himself as a more couth version of Trump.1.1×04.3k5709
95Dec 18, '19Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) compared impeachment to Pearl Harbor. It's also worth noting that he previously compared the Obamacare birth control mandate to Pearl Harbor. THE MAN HAS ON1.1×04.1k58715
96Oct 30, '20Snapshot from our home, 4 days before Election Day: The 9-yr-old— perhaps sensing her parents weren’t up to the task— got the 2-yr-old up, diaper changed, fully dressed, shouting o1.0×04.7k14011
97Feb 18, '21If you think Ted Cruz is a hero dad, here is the incomplete list of things I have successfully prevented my toddler from eating on this work-from-home snow day: A raw egg, a comple1.0×04.6k1864
98Dec 20, '20My toddler’s current favorite thing is sneaking sips of my coffee. Which troubles me, but also makes me kinda proud. ☕️☕️☕️1.0×04.6k684
99Apr 30, '21A random Work From Home observation is that I'm hardly overly productive, but I am somehow.. Never. Not. Working.1.0×04.6k15614
100Mar 29, '19Whenever I run w my daughter in the stroller, she bursts into giggles... as if she, too, understands the absurdity of my attempts to exercise.0.9×04.3k1215
101Dec 19, '19Note To Self: The next time the president gets impeached and holds a rally simultaneously... HIRE. A. DAMN. BABYSITTER. The idea that 50 mins is sufficient to get home, feed a baby0.9×04.3k1169

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