Melania Trump is again within the White Home, however she nonetheless isn’t on the identical web page as Vogue, which mocked the primary woman’s official portrait as cheesy.
“Indeed, Trump looked more like she was guest starring on an episode of ‘The Apprentice’ than assuming the role of first lady of the United States,” Anna Wintour’s trend magazine wrote in an editorial, describing the picture of Melania sporting a Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo jacket over a white button-up and cummerbund.
“The choice to wear a tuxedo — as opposed to a blazer or blouse — made Trump look more like a freelance magician than a public servant,” Vogue added. “It’s perhaps unsurprising that a woman who lived in a gold-encrusted penthouse, whose fame is so intertwined with a reality-television empire, would refuse to abandon theatrics — even when faced with 248 years of tradition.”
Melania Trump official picture. (White Home)
Vogue’s beef with Melania, who did some modeling work earlier than assembly her future husband round 1998, started when President Trump was first elected to workplace in 2016. Whereas most first women are requested to pose for the celebrated journal, Melania didn’t seem in its shiny pages.
She was recorded expressing her disappointment to a buddy in 2018 when Beyoncé was reportedly given artistic management over that yr’s September difficulty cowl story. The 45-year-old Slovenian immigrant additionally complained that porn star Stormy Daniels — who allegedly had an affair with Trump when he was a civilian in 2006 — appeared in Vogue in 2018.
“I don’t give a f— about Vogue,” Melania was recorded telling her former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
Former First Girl Dr. Jill Biden was featured in a August 2024 Vogue cowl story that got here out shortly earlier than her husband withdrew from the presidential race following a traditionally weak debate efficiency in opposition to Trump. It was her third time showing on the journal’s cowl. Her predecessor, Michelle Obama, was additionally on the quilt three completely different instances whereas Barack Obama was in workplace.
Melania was photographed for the journal in 2005 as “Donald Trump’s New Bride” when he was nonetheless a actuality TV star. She wore a Christian Dior marriage ceremony robe valued at round $200,000.
