Vanity Fair was torched for blaming MAGA for Americans choosing to have a more protein-fueled diet and making the ridiculous suggestion that only men, not women, care about protein.

The article was titled “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA” by author Keziah Weir. In it, Weir calls out those in the “manosphere” led by President Donald Trump and supported by “influential podcast bros” like podcaster Joe Rogan and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement.

By 2015, psychologists were finding that the overconsumption of protein among men could constitute an eating disorder. Was it correlation, coincidence, or some lean-meat canary in the proverbial coal mine that it was into this proteinous landscape that Donald Trump—burger loving, locker room talking, and all—announced his bid for the presidency?

And now, amid a shrinking economy, following strides and setbacks for women’s rights via #MeToo and its backlash (including the overturning of Roe v. Wade), as well as marriage equality, visibility, and media representation for queer and trans people with a similar subsequent “anti-woke” recoil—we have a second Trump term, MAHA, and what menswear commentator Derek Guy calls the “slim-fit revolution” of the manfluencer sphere.

Weir concludes her piece with the bizarre statement that reads, “Whether our current protein path leads to an accidental brush with transcendence, or face down on the pavement as gunshots ricochet nearby, remains to be seen.”

Honestly, I'm unsure what the author is trying to say with that last sentence. It's not like the popular Atkins diet hasn't existed for two decades. I am sure it is some veiled liberal attempt to blame so-called right-wing extremism on protein.

The headline did not escape social media users who blasted the piece as outdated and dumb, among other things.

Outspoken female sports advocate Riley Gaines shared a screenshot of the article and wrote sarcastically on X, “Lifting weights and drinking protein shakes makes you an extremist btw.”

"Vanity Fair doing their part to help convert Democrats to Republicans," another person joked.

“The @VanityFair protein article by Keziah Weir might be the dumbest article ever written. Everyone associated with that pile of garbage should be ashamed,” a third person wrote.

Another person’s comment read, "This is undeniably one of the dumbest, most hate inspired screeds I’ve ever seen. The hard left (ie Vanity Fair & their supplicants) want you drugged, sick and sterile. What a sad, pathetic existence this must be.”

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Vanity Fair's "MAGA protein" piece is peak idiocy. Mocks basic fitness as a far-right scheme, skipping science for dumb clicks. Garbage. #VanityFairhttps://t.co/DU2RrTX7HM pic.twitter.com/V2ygjQV9Xb

— Socks (@SockstoBed) May 4, 2025

"This trash rag can go bankrupt,” one person said. “This is why no one takes mainstream publications seriously anymore.”

While another person wrote, "I think We The People are kind of past this concept of dismantling the patriarchy and white men are bad and blah blah blah blah blame MAGA ... LOL.”

“Vanity Fair’s ‘MAGA protein’ piece is peak idiocy. Mocks basic fitness as a far-right scheme, skipping science for dumb clicks. Garbage,” another person wrote.

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