Molly Prince on April 16, 2019
The office of First Lady Melania Trump responded on Friday after Anna Wintour implied during an interview that the current first lady will not appear on the cover of Vogue despite featuring past first ladies.
“To be on the cover of Vogue doesn’t define Mrs. Trump, she’s been there, done that long before she was first lady,” Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for Trump, said in a statement first obtained by Fox News.
“We always had a tradition at Vogue to photograph the first ladies when they first came in to office — some extraordinary, wonderful women, and it was an honor to photograph them,” Wintour said during an interview CNN before praising former First Lady Michelle Obama for “inspiring so many women” and doing “wonders for fashion.” Vogue featured Obama three separate times when she served as first lady.
However, after CNN’s Christiane Amanpour referred to Wintour as “overtly political” when it comes to cover features and profiles, the Vogue editor-in-chief noted that she must take a stand.
“I also feel even more strongly now that this is a time to try and ― I think that one has to be fair, one has to look at all sides ― but I don’t think it’s a moment not to take a stand,” Wintour said. “I think you can’t be everything to everybody.”
“I think that is a time when we live in a world where, as you would well know, of fake news,” she continued. “I believe and I think that those of us that work at Conde Nast believe that you have to stand up for what you believe in and you have to take a point of view.”
She came in Legally. No one has a problem if you come in by the rules set years ago.
What a smug remark. She is beautiful, classy, intelligent and makes me proud to see her representing our country. When she is with other dignitaries, she stand out. What a wonderful First Lady Melania is.
Apparently they didn’t see the picture of Mrs. Obama waling up some stairs with Frances first lady and (I believe) Spain’s first lady. That was quite awhile ago, but Ms. Obama looked like a hick compared to those ladies.
Michelle was downright tacky so many times, I was embarrassed for her. Vogue is a pretty tacky magazine and their Teen Vogue that encourages anal sex among teens is downright vile. Both are nausea inducing magazines.
Obama=WORST GARBAGE DUMP EVER. What a vile little self-serving man he was/is.
James Woods tweeted about this long ago…
I burst out laughing after reading how mooshell obama did such wonders for fashion, wow
Vogue really has low standards. Our first lady now always looks elegant and doesn’t need to be in your magazine, funny you had her in your magazine before she was first lady. She
is so beautiful and has such class why would she want to be in a magazine that thinks the former first person had any fashion sense.
You shouldn’t insult kindergarten babies like this. lol
Melania is the Most Beautiful, Most Gracious, Most Intelligent, Most Linguistic, Most Captivating, Most Charming, and Warmest First Lady ever. The Best.
Melania is the Most Beautiful, Most Gracious, Most Intelligent, Most Linguistic, Most Captivating, Most Charming, and the Warmest First Lady ever. The Best.
BOYCOTT VOGUE
Vogue is Anna Wintour’s magazine. She has the right to feature anyone she wants to on the cover. She doesn’t have to feature Melania if she doesn’t want to. If another magazine chooses to feature Melania on their cover, it is their right.
TRUE
You are soooo right!
I totally agree with you…no question about it
I agree 100%
so true
NEVER
so so true
Yes, I agree….Personally, I think Melania has even more class
Did you see Mooshelle on the stag at the music awards. She looked like a “full back” football player surrounded by cheerleaders. She loomed above them and looked ready for the tackle. Yuck!
Too bad (for you) that Trump will steamroll over the Dims AGAIN, next year.
The trouble with Jackie O was her very immature voice. I had to grit my teeth when she talked.
Even after she became First Lady, she had zero fashion sense. Imagine what she would have looked like without somebody telling her what to wear.
Awwww! Still Butt hurt are we! You should try some! It will sooth your mind when you sit down!
Trump=GARBAGE DUMP.
There fixed it for you
No, you just drink from the sewer that called FOX
You mean when have the GOP ever gone high, they never have.
Obamas so called fashion was a sack of potatoes with an opening for the head and two cuts for arms. I have never being so ashamed of a first lady out in public as that so called lady. Her fashion was hideous.
Oops — who’s that knocking at your door??? :)
Especially on Vogue.
Politicize it at your peril. If your objective is to get as few subscriptions as you can, you’re doing a good job.
Her celebrity comes from her husband being president On her own she is a nobody.
Live by politics die b y politics. RIP Vogue
DO NOT EVER BUY OR READ “VOGUE”. THIS IS WORST THEN FAKE NEWS. TALKING ABOUT HUSSEIN THE ILLEGAL KENYAN’S WIFE, WHO WEARS SWEATERS INSIDE OUT, WHO LOOKS LIKE A GORILLA DRESSSED IN CLOTHING, WHO IS NOT EVEN A WOMEN, BUT A SHIM.
SHAME ON “VOGUE”.
VOGUE=GARBAGE DUMP.
THAT IS FOR SURE.
If vogue thinks Michelle Obama did wonders for women and inspired fashion then you obviously are not a good judge of dress or character. She is an ugly hack and she looks like crap when she tries Togo off the scale to accentuate her style. No thank you I want to read and buy a magazine that definitely can have a good judgement and someone who actually looks good in the fashions she chooses, and muchelle Obama does not. Time to boycott Vogue
Mrs. Obama was a fashion plater? what drugs are you on….get off them quickly
the moocher as a fashion icon??? you’ve gotta be pooping me. the moocher has about as much fashion sense,as my dead dog…
Politics in Vogue? Puuulease. You’re lost in my eyes. Never again will I buy Vogue…unless I see our beautiful first lady on the cover…which I am sure she would not dare let you now.
I have subscribed to Vogue before but never again after this, looks like Vogue likes their women a Little on the Trashy Side” Melanie has too much class to be on the cover of Vogue, it has gone down hill in the past years. That’s a joke about Michelle Obama inspiring so many women” and doing “wonders for fashion.” Vogue featured Obama three separate times when she served as first lady. She’s really a disgrace and an embarrassment with the low cut, no shoulders, dresses up to her big butt at her age, I haven’t seen anything that she wore that I liked or would even wear.
I have to agree 100% !
IMO, Vogue is the loser in this one.
SORRY I MEANT TO SAY MIKE OBAMA
WOULD NOT READ THE RAG IN THE FIRST PLACE- AND NOW SINCE MICHEL OBAMA IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RAG EVEN MORE FOR ME TO PUT THE RAG IN THE FIREPLACE WHERE IT BELONGS!
Amen to that Vogue has shat in the proverbial hat
That might get me a 5am visit from a LIBERAL SWAT TEAM!!!! LOL!
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2009/08/21/is_michelle_obama_showing_too_much_skin.html
I am sure the first lady could care less. She will continue to do what she does and to hell with Vogue.
i can’t forget the toilet paper dress. lol
LMAO michelle obama and fashion are not synonymous. lol the ‘
woman” had no fashion sense at all. rupaul has more fashion sense than obama. lol photo shoots don’t up readership it seems. magazines are becoming obsolete. no one cares.
Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney what a pare of Anti-American, Anti-Constitution, Anti-Freedom dirt bags.
Vogue cannot recognize class. Witness their love affair with Mich O and a few other class less people.
Just goes to show just how low class Vogue magazine is! Featuring the mooch Obama 3 times because she inspired women? Highly unlikely! For Vogue to have her on the magazine is really very tasteless and in bad judgment! The only thing I will remember this racially biased woman for is the saying “I am finally a proud American”. That was a cut at America people! Coming from a racist woman occupying our White House!
I haven’t looked at a Vogue Magazine for years because of their politicizing and I will continue to boycott them. Michelle O NEVER did a thing for this country and her fashion sense was a non-existant. Your bias , arrogance and hate suck.
Who cares? Melania doesn’t! Let;’s just give it back to them, don’t buy Vogue anymore!
Oh, my gosh — a little more weight around the middle and through the hips, and it would be a perfect likeness of Mrs. Obama. You should send that to Vogue for a reaction!! :)
Me, too, HoffHack! :)
Agree with you 200%, RedBeer! :)
So true — and you made it rhyme! Good job. :)
She was nothing but a “wannabe,” and wouldn’t know what the word “fashion” even means without looking it up in the dictionary!
And Mrs. Obama wouldn’t know class if it smacked her in the head!
UNTIL NOW!!
WE Love our GORGEOUS first lady and we don’t buy or miss Vogue. What a pitiful rag.
MOO-chelle, a FASHION inspiration? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Whatever else she is, she has HIDEOUS taste in clothes! That’s why I thought it was hilarious when all those fashion designers who dressed the MOOCH huffily declared that they would NOT dress Melania. As if our beautiful and classy First Lady would be caught DEAD in the tasteless RAGS they hung on the MOOCH”s HULKING 7-foot frame.
This liberal TWIT editor and her magazine will soon be cast on the ash heap of history where they belong. What woman of today has either the time or any interest in the mindless drivel found in “fashion” magazines, anyhow?
Yhe democrats are running vogue…..We all wrap our garbage in this magazine.
The democrats are running Vogue………May we all wrap our garbage in this magazine.
I have been saying for a long time that the first publisher that does an entire magazine featuring the first lady (Melania) while utilizing some of her modeling day photos (in good taste) and also covering her in her rounds of the White House and duties as first lady, will make a fortune. The book will sell by the millions. There is a huge audience out there waiting for such a magazine, and the current publishers are so blinded by their political views they can’t see it.
For some reason this site won’t let me use my real name and where it says create your profile, I type in my name there and hit next and nothing happens. Dead.
Love all the comments and agree, agree, agree….Why is Vogue in politics anyway..I thought it was a fashion mag and Melanie is the epitome of fashion…I will never buy Vogue again either!
Vogue is just another political forum pretending to be a magazine that actually does something positive for the citizens of this country. They demonstrate their pettiness and hypocrisy. Total disgrace. Melania should be honored that she was not invited to pose for this kind of cheap failing magazine.
I’d sure like to know what fashion michelle obama inspired? Melania is a beautiful woman & someone we can be proud to say is First Lady of United States of America! God bless Melania Trump!
Marjorie posting: I love it, “Already don’t that.” When Melania was on the cover of that rag they PAID her for her time. ANYONE who thinks Mrs. Hussein-O was a fashion icon has no taste.
Anna Wintour is a very unattractive female and is certainly threatened by Melania Trump’s class and beauty. As a woman, it saddens me to see a woman in a position such as Ms. Wintours have such low self esteem. Sadly, she has turned a once classy magazine into a cousin of the supermarket tabloid.
The First Lady has too Classy to appear on the cover of such a Trash Filled Rag. Besides WHO actually buys print magazines anymore.
Melania and POTUS Trump were adored by the MSM, when they gave oodles of cash to both sides (it was the cost of doing business).
I totally agree! Obama(excuse me cows) was like watching a cow in the field. Her clothes were ill fitted and ugly, and cows walked with more grace than she did!!!!
Didn’t Michelle Obama wear plain Target clothes and everyone in the media praised how wonderful she looked and how that was the new Haute Couture of the new millennium?
Agree 100%!!!!!
Karl Lagerfield had a great line for VOGUE magazine ,a classy magazine turn to trash,
cancel any subsciption with newhouse publishing perid.
What does that mean?
It is really too bad that your magazine has decided to be political and focus only on the left. I guess you don’t care about the rest of the AMERICANS that might buy your sometimes acceptable magazine.
No more vogue magazine for me.
100% agree with your comment!
Correct, Susan…We haven’t had a first lady with class and fashion sense since Jackie O.
Totally agree with this statement. Her wardrobe team did a terrible job dressing her. Your comment of her being an inspiration is a total joke.
Big Michael the face of the Vouge
Hahahaahaha, Michael the linebacker as a fashion icon?? Hahahahahahahaahhahaahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahaha!!
The most beautiful First Lady since Jackie Kennedy and you would rather have the two ugliest First Ladies Clinton and Obama on the cover your magazine. Just shows us you have liberal magazine that no body cares about.
Speaking of Toilets! ():-)
Our Frist Lady is a Beautiful Woman and the ugly leftist socialist communist muslums can’t handle it and her husband President Trump is the best President we have had in years and years , so she don’t want to lower herself to their standards anyway she is hand over hands better
Teen Vogue is both anti Semitic and anti Israel it has published numerous stories under different editors that make outrageously false claims about Israel This is just more of the same it is becoming clearer to most Americans the racist bigotry of the left now nullifies any attempts on their part to be civil. Vogue is not fit to line the bottom of a bird cage.
ANOTHER REASON I WON’T BUY IT….
Well it did make us laugh. That pinata dress was hilarious.
That dress was really a mistake. I don’t know of anyone who would actually wear a rag like that and there’s not a professional model alive that would wear that thing for a fashion shoot no matter what they’d pay her.
Why would Mrs. Trump even care about a silly fashion magazine? She has graced the covers of more important magazines for years. Her present duties and schedule would not have time to pose for an unimportant photo shoot for a fashion rag anyway.
I have never purchased a Vogue magazine in my life In my early 20s, which was 44 yrs ago, they smelled of elitism and snobbery Damn, I was very smart at 22…LMAO
I’ll NEVER buy Vogue again. Not that that matters to Anna Wintour. She’ll keep her job.
Also, your praise of Michelle Obama is really was overboard. Perhaps Anna doesn’t see the slob the rest of us see. She’ll NEVER be a fashion queen.
Vogue is out of vogue!
another reason why the divide continues to grow between freedom and respect vs
liberalism and hate.
Melania is beautiful and classy. She has a very highly regarded God-appointed position in the world for these days, and there is no reason for her to succumb to the low life that needs magazine promotion. She is much higher than that level and she has no reason to apologize, she ins’t vulgar or defaming, she is much too classy to be like that. She is much more comfortable in being a person of integrity, morality, sincerity, and loyal to both the POTUS and the USA. Who needs vogue-gar?? The anna wintour pic was on a piece of propaganda that I recently flushed (tp): No more vogue-arity for this gal. My life is not without controversy, but it turn around 180º thanks to an new belief – – rededicating my life to serve Christ, in my great homeland, the U.S.A. I’ve prayed about it, and struggled, but for now I believe that President Trump and his family are appointed by God, to do His will in this reprobate world.k No one really cars about vogue – they are over priced and not worth a $1 investment.
Melania Trump is the most classy first lady in both looks,dress & action & that Jackie Kennedy or every first lady since FDR that I saw.
but it’s much fun to play with the first lady stripper!
?????
At a time when illegal immigrants are assaulted by President Trump, perhaps they were trying to follow his lead and refuse to let an illegal immigrant be on their cover.
Michelle and Whoopi should be the cover girls for the Cleaning Ladies monthly.
And frankly speaking strictly of fashion, Michelle, or is it Michael’s taste in clothes is abominable. Take that election winning black and red phosphorescent dress and the one shoulder white dress that made her/him look like an ostrich.
Who’s Anna Wintour?
I do have to add that I just looked at that Anna Wintour woman and OMG….what the hell? She is the editor? LMAO. SHE shouldn’t be talking about “fashion” etc. She looks God AWFUL, with that hair and those ridiculous sunglasses. All I can say other than that is she is a bitter old hag. No wonder people laugh at her and her irrelevant rag of a magazine that hardly anyone reads. Poor thing. She is not only ugly outside but ugly inside.
Conde Nast must be Vogue’s parent company? Will be using other travel mags in the future.
Melania your just too Hot for that cover and they know it!
Wintour….the devil in The Devil wears Prada.
But several people could fit in her clothes at the same time.
First, a magazine that rates women on looks and what they wear is hardly a magazine worth buying. Second, any publication that calls Ms Obama a fashion icon has serious problems with reality.
Screw Vogue Magazine. Besides, no one I know reads Vogue and I know a lot of people….Vogue is basically irrelevant.
Michelle Obama reminds me of World Wide Wrestling. She is an ugly brute and probably pushes Barack around
DID SHE ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING???? I DON’T UNDERSTAND A WORD SHE SAID!!!!
Yes! Make me want to………………………….
I sorry but if anyone should be on the cover its the first lady. Piss on your mag. Obama, yea right. Thers a waste of flesh.
How about putting that Gorilla in High Heels back on the front cover?
as a self identified male and male by birth I find Mrs. Trump much more physically attractive than Mrs. Obama … which is faint praise I know
Melania is the epitome of class and taste. I would find it abhorent if she did appear in Vogue as that magazine is a giant piece of trash.
Mrs Obama is on the low class side compared to Melanie. And as far as looks Melanie has her beat 100 times over. When Mrs Obama was featured in Vogue they must have been desperate and were really scraping the bottom of the barrel on featuring her in their mag.
Just to be clear, it was Anna Wintour that said obama inspired fashion, not the author of this story. But true…to consider obama a fashion inspiration is like thinking of liver as a slab of chocolate…not even close. I see people putting cute little outfits on their pets…it doesn’t change the looks of the the pet.
Petty Little People!
Omar the Tent Maker is thrilled to make the clothing that Michae/Michelle Obama wears. He gets 21 cents an hour.
Michelle Obama can’t hold a candle to Melania Trump! And you should be ashamed. What you do for one you should do for all of them. She is beautiful and smart and a lady! None of which MO can compare to! I will NEVER ever purchase another one of your magazines and the editor should be dismissed! How completely awful!
Vogue garbage and Obama that was a disgrace to be in the White House we now have one of the most stunning first ladies to be there. She is first class all the way what a great Person.
#gaysfortrump2020
VOGUE is a magazine that’s hay day was the 1920’s and 1930’s. It’s another publication that’s been bought and sold out to be one more politically motivated and a vehicle for the lefts weird agenda.
I like the fact that the First Lady isn’t dawned over by the phonies. She’s way past high school-like antics of being popular for the shallow….who put such stock in such a magazine.
Beautiful people don’t need to be told they’re beautiful. Let’s just the God beauty isn’t democratic.
TRUMP2020
First Lady Melania Trump is beyond the petty clique that work in Vogue. She doesn’t need the fawning assurances of a fashion magazine to confirm her importance.
The only fashion ideas I saw of Michellemybabe would be only utilized on Halloween:)))
This drawing is waaaay too flattering to Michael.
Can anyone ever bleach away the memory of “The Pinata Dress”.
When I was a lot younger I got to meet Jackie Kennedy. A beautiful and stylish woman. Melanie Trump is every bit the equal to Kennedy if not a bit more. Vogue mag is a piece of trash and deserves to go extinct along with it’s editor.
Absolutely correct! From day one it was nothing but havoc. I’m sick of every bit of it! Obama turned our country into a boiling pot,instead of a melting pot! The only accomplishments I’ve seen from their eight years is Obama finding the best golf courses in America. And his nutty wife using Air Force One to carry her around the world to see countries she would have never seen otherwise.
I thought her name was Michael.
The Pathetic, Disgusting liberal party is made up of kindergarten babies.
Curious to know many languages Wintour speaks…not as many as she has ridiculous pageboy wigs for sure…so yesterday.
That poor ugly thing is still lying and spreading rumors and the thing hates Americans.
What an incredible winch Wintour is…..someone lacking even a shred of class…..Vogue is so finished…will NEVER pass my eyes again.
Melania you are way BETTER than that RAG Magazine Vogue
So Vogue thinks they are important now? That’s funny.
Guess we’ll take a stand, too, and NEVER again buy Vogue. How they could feature that cow three times is beyond me. However, as stated Melania doesn’t need that or them. She had been featured long ago. Melania is a lady in her own right and doesn’t need validation from them or anyone else.
I totally agree with you
When they go low, we go high. When did democrats ever go high?
Hey Wintour Take off the sunglasses, they are clouding your vision, our, “First Lady” is magnificent, she has class and beauty beyond any, “First Lady” in history, you are not anywhere near her in class!
Being on the cover of a has been magazine will neither make or break the first lady. She has more class and style than this
Piece of history ever had or ever will have.
What a joke Vogue. Don’t they realize that their door stop has nothing to do with where and how Melania Trump lives?
I wouldn’t worry too much. If Vogue feels that turning its magazine into a partisan propaganda rag, so be it. How many years left on special print magazines do they think they have left. By alienating a good portion of the country, they just quicken their bankruptcy.
Where ever does Mrs. O. shop tent and awning? No fashion model for sure.
another female bum mag.owner
This picture is worth ten thousand words as to which First Lady inspires the Fashion industry!
YUP!
I’m afraid Vogue has lost its way…The last elegant face was Jacqueline Kennedy. Now, we finally have another elegant First Lady, Mrs. Trump…Vogue, you missed the mark again.
You have become too political. What a shame!
Don’t buy Vogue! They do not know real people when they see them. The Trump’s are very kind and loving people. Better than most Publishers.
Haven’t bought Vogue. Likely won’t buy Vogue. I’ll bet a nickel Vogue will want Mrs. Trump to return to its cover following her husband’s presidency. Vogue will want to interview Mrs. Trump hoping to obtain some sort of scoop. Mrs. Trump is now way too classy for Vogue.
But Annie finds Kanye West and Kim Kardashian moral leaders? Makes sense!
Honestly, Vogue does not deserve the sales that would follow with the publication of our First Lady on the cover.
Boycott Vogue and fire Wintour another DTS victim!
Well said. Michelle Obama was not a beautiful woman…inside or out. She did nothing but spread racism and division across our nation…and around the world…for the full 8 yrs that her husband was in office.
Michelle has also been a failure, at everything she has ever done…unless dancing on the Ellen show is now considered an accomplishment….because that is the one thing she seemed to do often…(She and her husband were both stripped of their law licenses before deciding to run for the Senate and WH, and as First Lady, her school-lunch program was an abysmal failure)
Michelle and Barrack Obama are the direct reason for the hate that fills the democratic party. But of course…the liberals in this country have elevated her to Saintly status…simply because of the color of her skin…which, like the rest of us…was simply a factor of birth…not accomplishment…
I stoped buying it a longtime ago… Trash magazine that became too politicized and not even worth free subscription
Before she became First Lady, Michelle Obama had ZERO fashion sense. She was FRUMPY looking ! On the other hand Melania Trump is beautiful, very fashionable, and would look exquisite on the cover of Vogue. You would probably sell a TON of copies, with her on the cover, but if you are too ignorant to realize that, it is YOUR loss ! By the way Anna, it is NOT your job to politicalize your magazine.
Vogue?? Is that a magazine? I thought it went out with the Sears, Roebuck catalog! (In the outhouses!)
Never bought a Vogue magazine in my lifetime and haven’t missed a thing. Mrs. Trump won’t miss being on the cover as First Lady either. There are other things far more important to being First Lady than being in a magazine.
I know. Have you seen the garbage in Vogue? I can’t imagine anyone would lay oiut a dime for that rag.
No taste and no class has left Vogue a thing of the past.
Melania Trump has behaved in the most ladylike way of any First Lady in my lifetime.
Wintour is a disgrace. I will never buy Vogue and Wintour should be fired. First Lady Melania Trump has too much class for Vogue, anyway, and she has more important things to do with her time. America and the world already know that our FLOTUS is the most beautiful FLOTUS is the most beautiful and gracious in US history. And she’s smart, unlike Wintour.
The ONLY reason obama was on the cover is vogue didn’t want to be accused of being racist. As for being being a fashion icon I don’t know ANYONE that would wear what she wears.
Vogue doesn’t want America’s Sophia Loren on their cover? No question the most stunning First Lady since Jacqueline Kennedy!!!
That’s sort of funny considering Vogue featured Melania Trump before she got to be First Lady. Rather like all the black athletes & celebrities who used to hang out with Donald Trump before he got elected President.
I agree 100% !!!
You should b ashamed to say Mrs Obama inspired fASHION PLEASE I had to use the toilet after that remark, if this is your stand no wonder vogue is going down hill, really you just put yourself and Vogue at the bottom of the barrel. I and many others will never buy Vogue and you as the Editor should be fired, the magazine should not be political!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘before praising former First Lady Michelle Obama for “inspiring so many women” and doing “wonders for fashion.”’ Wonders for fashion?! I hadn’t noticed that the rain parka was making a comeback.