Fair Fight? Vanity Fair Facing Backlash for Considering Melania for Cover
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Melania Trump was a supermodel--in the elite of the elite in a hypercompetitive industry.
But, you probably noticed, she was shunned by designers and magazines during Trump's first term as president, and so far has remained a pariah among the glitterati during his second.
The new editor of Vanity Fair magazine--who recently took over after a failed tenure from his predecessor--is considering breaking the taboo. He noticed that the descent into woke madness has hurt the premium brand of Condé Nast, the parent company that also owns Vogue, and thinks that expanding the appeal of his product beyond AWFLs might help.
His employees are revolting.
Vanity Fair employees lash out over proposed Melania Trump cover: ‘I will walk out the motherf—ing door’ https://t.co/rqoqF5sJAw pic.twitter.com/al3nZc9nC9
— New York Post (@nypost) August 26, 2025
Yes, I know that word has a double meaning, and I think both of them apply in this case .
Vanity Fair’s new boss reportedly wants first lady Melania Trump to grace the glossy magazine’s coveted cover — leaving disgruntled woke staff threatening to “walk out the motherf–king door” if it goes ahead.
The fashion mag’s global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, has floated the possibility of putting President Trump’s wife on the cover of the Conde Nast-owned publication as he tries to make his mark in his newly minted role, Semafor reported.
But the mere thought of having the former model as a cover girl sparked fierce backlash from raging lefty staffers.
“I will walk out the motherf–king door, and half my staff will follow me,’ one sensitive editor fumed to the Daily Mail.
It would be glorious if any of these pampered staff members actually did walk out the door, and Mark Guiducci would do himself a huge favor to take them up on the challenge and put Melania on the cover. He could save himself a lot of money and grief if he could separate out the wheat from the chaff and get rid of the complainers.
Alas, getting a job at Condé Nast is about as common and as remunerative as winning the lottery, and nobody in the publishing industry with two brain cells to rub together would actually follow through with such a rash move. They would take the Jennifer Rubin path and hang on to their jobs until they were kicked out the door unwillingly.
Rubin, you will recall, applauded her colleagues at the Los Angeles Times who resigned when the paper didn't endorse Kamala Harris, but when The Washington Post chose to follow the same path, she went radio silent. Now she runs a tiny podcast and opinion site that receives precisely zero attention from people.
There are media personalities with actual brands — Catherine Herridge, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger — but most of us in the publishing world are interchangeable cogs or artificially elevated through our corporate backing. We may think we are special, but what we really are is lucky to get paid to do this for a living.
Woke staff at Vanity Fair threaten to walk out if First Lady Melania Trump is put on the cover.
The magazines global editorial director, Mark Guiducci has floated the possibility of putting the First Lady on the cover, leading to staff threatening to quit.
“I will walk out… pic.twitter.com/RkMe4v48b5
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 26, 2025
So it is all virtue signaling, of course. However, it remains a marker for where our cultural elite stands. Those who have to pay the bills have noted the cultural shift, and at least a few are trying to adjust. Those who can afford to spout off without consequence still think that they control everything, and chances are good that if they FA, they will FO.
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I will walk out the motherf–king door, and half my staff will follow me,’ one sensitive editor fumed to the Daily Mail.
Flipping out over putting the First Lady on the cover of a silly magazine might be the dumbest protest yet.
But it does confirm something, blind allegiance to a partisan following does not make one smarter.
oh the irony
If I walked out of a job every time my employer did something I didn't like I would not have had a job for more than a month. Suck it up buttercup.
Maybe some MAGAs would buy a Vanity Fair with Melania on the cover, but it would be the only issue they would ever buy. To broaden its appeal to that demographic they would have to put her on the cover every month.
Do pictures of the first lady on magazine cover cause progressives to faint? Oh.. the horror. A model on a magazine cover....
Editorially Vanity Fair is a liberal magazine, and they do regularly have political stories and articles. If the new CEO wants to change that it would seem to be his prerogative, but it may backfire. The article wants to think VF is just a fashion magazine so Melania would fit in, but that is not really the case.
When the 'model' is an illegal immigrant who violated her status by becoming basically a high priced girl, with a calling, so to speak, is married to the fck up causing so much commotion with his undying devotion to move US All into and under the ocean of demise via incessant lies, there in, LIE's the little problem and a small example of a list quite ample
A good chance that is why the previous editor was was failing.
You can back up the claim she's here illegally?
And suddenly, after all the fighting FOR illegals, you all are suddenly against them? When was that switch thrown?
None of that is true, and lies like that netted her big money in defamation suits.
She was NOT allowed to work here, and she did. I'm for treating everyone equally, not for when it is convenient for Trump.
Maybe she should sue Trump then, cause wasn't he bangin pornstars after marriage vows were sworn upon a Trump bible...?
It was and has been in stand-by mode since 2015.
You know, I looked and looked and don't see anything to back up your claim.
ever try that with Trump...?
Why the deflection?
That is debatable.
she was a porn model
How's that for the family values crowd?
Saying her pictures are porn is quite a stretch but whatever happened to her body her choice?
sure...her choice. I have no problem with porn models/actresses. But don't try to tell me that she is a good Christian and embraces family values with both arms. I will ignore you
I have no idea if she is a good Christian who embraces family values and I am far from being qualified to judge her
Your ignore button your choice.
It kind of depends what you mean by porn. I dont think she has any x rated material but there are a bunch of photos of her along these lines
there are a couple of photos of her in bed naked with another woman but i dont know if those have been verified
It's what you would find in Playboy before you get to the centerfold. Do you consider Playboy to be porn?
We all have different opinions, but in my opinion she is/was a porn model. And I'm sticking with it
There is a photo of her in bed with another woman. They are both naked and the other woman has her arms around Melania. I'm not posting it because i am not sure it is verified . I do think it is real. But even that is not technically porn because it doesnt show the genitals.
Seriously?
GTFOH
Gee, it sounds like copilot was programed with the usual woke bias. That is going to be the problem with all of AI.
Apparently she was a pretty successful model in Europe , but not in the USA so much. I dont think she qualified as a supermodel in an American context.
They had the Michelle on many covers, and "Dr' Jill Biden on the Vogue cover three times. So why not Melania, in the name of fairness and non-discrimination.
Michelle Obama cover appearances - POLITICO
I remember when Vogue was dedicated to the female ideal. Back then Jill Biden would never have been on the cover.
No, but she would've made the cover of MAD.
She would have stiff competition from Mad Maxine Watters for that "honor".