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To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Of Ballrooms, Blasphemy, and the Return of Abortion Politics

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today's 'To the Contrary" podcast, Charlie is joined by NYT contributor Molly Jong-Fast to discuss the latest developments: the GOP's billion dollar ballroom; stunning new polling on the Trump-as-Jesus meme; this week's TACO on Iran, and why the abortion issue has exploded back onto the political scene. (They also talk about Molly's cameo in the new "Devil Wears Prada 2" movie.)



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0:00.0

I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. So the Senate GOP really is proposing spending a billion dollars in taxpayer money on Donald Trump's ballroom. I still haven't gotten over that. And I wrote about that in the newsletter. Donald Trump gets his revenge in Indiana, the politics of abortion about to make a big time comeback. By the way, I usually don't talk about

0:22.3

polls, but there's some amazing polls about Donald Trump's Jesus post and public opinion

0:28.4

about the Pope. I really want to talk about that. And apparently, I have been kicked off

0:35.2

Twitter, and I'm actually kind of okay with that. So we have a lot to get into today.

0:46.3

Well, joining us on our podcast today is our good friend Molly Jong Fast, who is a very busy, you know, celebrity woman.

0:52.5

So Molly, in one year you have a best-selling book, and is it true?

0:56.5

You were actually in the movie, The Devil Wears Prada 2?

1:00.4

For like a minute.

1:02.0

I mean, not for very long, but yes.

1:04.4

A minute's a long time.

1:06.1

I'm in there. You're there. Are you, like, is a spoiler alert?

1:29.0

I'm just sitting there talking to. You're just sitting there with the other beautiful,

1:33.2

famous people. You're just like hanging out? Yeah. I mean, as much as that's possible, yes. I am there.

1:40.2

Are you wearing Prada? I'm wearing a skirt and a top that I then stole.

1:50.0

Okay.

1:50.3

Okay.

1:50.8

Well, that's fair.

1:51.6

From the filming.

1:53.4

Because I told them first, because I'm not really into stealing.

1:57.5

So I said, you know, I really like this.

2:00.5

Can I take it with me? And they said, okay. And so I did it. Yeah, I sort of said, yeah, I sort of said, I mean, I said, I really like this. I don't think you're going to return it. Can I take it with me? So did you interact with any of the actors and actors?

2:18.6

Yes, Merrill Street.

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