Actress Elizabeth Banks has a new television series, "The Miniature Wife," that debuted this week and in an effort to gin up attention for the program, Banks is speaking out about politics — because that always works to draw audiences into your show or movie. Just ask Rachel Zegler.
Banks isn't exactly known for her political and social acumen, of course. In 2017, Banks was forced to apologize to director Steven Spielberg after she implied his films were sexist.
"I went to Indiana Jones and Jaws and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made," Banks said, "and by the way, he's never made a movie with a female lead. Sorry, Steven. I don't mean to call your a** out, but it's true."
It was not, in fact, true. Spielberg directed "The Color Purple" (1985), which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, starred Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Last September, Banks humiliated herself yet again at the Emmy Awards, when she presented the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
"And when was the last time a directing category had five women and one man? I did not bother to look that up but I think we all agree it was never," Banks said right before she was forced to give the Emmy to Philip Barantini, the only man.
Banks is back with the gender nonsense, this time wondering why white women voted for President Trump instead of Kamala Harris.
Elizabeth Banks says she can't wrap her head around White women who voted for Trump over Kamala Harris https://t.co/44kOxPHqWW pic.twitter.com/VYlA6YXM4l
— New York Post (@nypost) April 16, 2026
"Effie is the model, guys. I don't understand the 53 percent of white ladies that didn't vote for Kamala. What were you thinking?" Banks asked on Bustles "One Nightstand" podcast, according to the New York Post.
"Effie" refers to the fictional character Effie Trinket from "The Hunger Games."
See, Banks thinks President Trump is just like the dystopian dictator President Snow, who forced children in Panem to fight to the death for the amusement of the nation.
That Banks takes her political references from fiction shows there are a great many things that she can't wrap her head around, so I'll help her figure out why women like me voted for President Trump.
First and foremost, I did it as a giant middle finger to people precisely like Banks. The people who think they (or their preferred politicians) are entitled to my vote because I have two XX chromosomes, and that I share the same selfish, shallow concerns they do. As Banks demonstrated, her concerns go no further than how many women win awards or star in movies. Of course, there's always the abortion issue, too, as if all women believe our rights are defined by whether or not we can kill our unborn children in the womb.
As I wrote about earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration brazenly and openly weaponized the FACE Act and the federal government against pro-life Christians, of which I am one. The Biden-Harris DOJ colluded with pro-abortion organizations to target, surveil, and prosecute men and women who opposed their radical abortion agenda. The Biden-Harris administration also removed essentially all guardrails surrounding the chemical abortion drug Mifepristone. That has been a disaster for women, with multiple women being given the drug against their will, usually by their intimate partners or spouses. Additionally, the pill is not safe, either, with 11 percent of women facing serious risk from the medication. Those "serious adverse health events" include internal infections, sepsis, hemorrhaging." Amber Nicole Thurman, a Georgia woman, experienced such complications after she traveled out of state to obtain the abortion pill. The pill terminated Thurman's pregnancy, but without oversight from her abortion provider, Thurman retained her dead twins and died from sepsis.
That deep-seated love of abortion drove the Obama administration to persecute the Little Sisters of the Poor, who are still fighting Democrats who insist they violate their Catholic faith by providing contraception and abortion coverage in their health insurance plans. New Jersey and Pennsylvania are still harassing them. In New York, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are forced to fight the state over its trans policies. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne provide hospice services for poor people, but New York wants to make them bend the knee to trans ideology, yet another violation of their faith.
Kamala Harris hasn't said anything about that, either. Then again, she wouldn't. In 2019, Harris was one of two Senators who tried to get one of President Trump's judicial nominees to take a religious litmus test. Harris was bothered that Judge Brian Buescher, who was nominated for the U.S. District Court of Nebraska, to provide proof he would judge without bias because Buescher was a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization. Harris cited the Knights' "extreme positions" on abortion and marriage equality as her grounds for concerns.
And during the 2024 election, Harris made it very clear that she wouldn't tolerate a religious exemption for abortion, and would force religious healthcare providers to participate in a procedure they morally objected to. She also supports the radical trans agenda that erases women, violates our safe spaces, and seeks to punish us for speaking out. The Biden-Harris administration tried to destroy Title IX of the Civil Rights act to give mentally ill men access to women's sports, services, and bathrooms.
Harris also doesn't like the First Amendment and wants government censorship of social media. I'm smart enough to know that means she'd take away my job here at Townhall and not lose a wink of sleep, probably claiming what I write is "misinformation" that cannot be seen by others.
She also vowed to turn us into a communist dystopia with price controls on groceries that were sure to leave store shelves bare and cause chaos and violence, and she didn't blink an eye when Biden tried to unilaterally add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution right before he left office, despite the fact the ratification window had long since closed. She let Biden try to mandate the COVID vaccines, lie about the Inflation Reduction Act, and didn't say a peep about skyrocketing inflation.
When asked to distance herself from Biden's policies, Kamala failed to do so. That said all we needed to know.
And I've barely scratched the surface of all the ways Kamala Harris was not only problematic, but dangerous. I won't dig any deeper into the disasters that her policies would have wrought on this nation, but I will add this: she was wholly unqualified to lead the country. She was unfit to be Vice President and failed in her duty to remove a clearly unwell Joe Biden from office as his cognitive health continued to decline.
She despised women like me, and she didn't hide it.
Contrast that with President Trump, who may occasionally say and do things with which I disagree. I know that he won't throw me behind bars for being a pro-life Catholic, that he won't erase my womanhood to appease mentally ill men and trans activists, and that he won't try to destroy me for being a conservative.
That's why he got my vote, and the vote of 53 percent of white women. We voted for him because, unlike Banks, we were thinking beyond our own narrow interests. We saw the disasters of the Biden-Harris years and rejected it. The Democrats do not own us and they are not owed our votes, no matter how much Banks flaps her lips about it.