Vanity Fair is reportedly in discussions to feature Melania Trump on its cover as part of a shift toward a more centrist editorial stance following the 2024 election.
New editor-in-chief Mark Guiducci's openness to considering such a move contrasts with the magazine's previous anti-Trump leadership that snubbed her during her first term as First Lady.
Guiducci, according to Semafor, has been hinting to people that "he’s potentially interested in putting Melania Trump on the cover," a move "likely to repel magazine’s liberal readers."
Which, of course. Why would liberal readers want to see a gorgeous former model on the cover of their favorite magazine? Having struggled with the concept of what a woman is, there's a decent chance their brains would malfunction at the sight.
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Mrs. Trump has expressed indifference to such covers, prioritizing more critical matters. That said, Guiducci even considering the move seems to suggest a pivot seen in liberal media outlets aiming to appeal to a broader audience amid declining viewership.
MAGA is mainstream now. Melania on the cover would draw readers and clicks to levels they haven't seen in many years.
Guiducci, of course, is receiving considerable pushback not only from liberal readers but also from the resistance warriors within his own editorial team. The First Lady absolutely triggers them.
A mid-tier editor reportedly told the Daily Mail that they and half their staff "will walk out the motherf***ing door" if they dare to put Melania on the cover. From there, the response echoed what you might find from your typical wailing anti-Trump losers. You can feel the gnashing of teeth just reading this.
"We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we're just not going to do it. We're going to stand for what's right," that editor continued.
"If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe's, I'll do it. If [Guiducci] puts Melania on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out, I guarantee it."
Putting down everyday people who work at grocery stores while pretending you even know what the word "despot" means is so ... Vanity Fair.
Vanity Fair is proposing giving Melania Trump the cover of their magazine.
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) August 26, 2025
According to reports, global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, floated the idea.
When one employee learned of this, they told the DailyMail they’d walk out. pic.twitter.com/JJYXLGnJwc
Bless their little septuple COVID-vaccinated heart.
Melania was notably excluded from both Vanity Fair and Vogue, both owned by Condé Nast, during Trump’s first administration.
And yet Vogue ran Michelle Obama out there three separate times while she was First Lady and even tossed Jill Biden, the woman with the fashion sense of a breakfast taco and a closet full of table cloths she calls dresses, on the cover twice.
Vogue just gave Jill Biden another magazine cover while snubbing the hottest woman to ever enter the White House. Melania is a bombshell. pic.twitter.com/hNDbz5o7lS
— Brittany Hugoboom (@BritHugoboom) July 1, 2024
In fact, Obama appeared on 30 American magazine covers between 2009 and 2017. During President Trump's first term, Melania appeared on zero American covers. Zilch. Nada.
In fact, worldwide, Melania only graced one magazine cover – Vanity Fair Mexico in February of 2017. She also showed up in the February 2025 digital edition of ¡HOLA!
For her part, Mrs. Trump has shrugged off the disdain from these elitist liberal magazines.
“Look, I’ve been there on the covers — on the cover of Vogue, on the covers of many magazines before … We have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine,” she told Fox News.
“I think that life would not change for anybody if I’m on the cover.”
Actor James Woods has said that, had the Slovenian and American former model been a liberal, magazines like Vanity Fair wouldn't be able to get enough.
“If the Trumps were Democrats, Melania would be on every cover of every chic women’s magazine in the world every month,” he said.
President Trump has compared his lovely wife to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and declared she should be referred to as "Melania T."
Donald Trump: "We have our own Jackie O today, it's called Melania. Melania. We'll call it Melania T!" pic.twitter.com/qJgGIw7F8j
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) June 14, 2019
On Tuesday, Melania Trump announced the formation of the Presidential Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge.
It is a program established through an executive order signed by the president that "shall encourage and highlight student and educator achievements in AI, promote wide geographic adoption of technological advancement, and foster collaboration between government, academia, philanthropy, and industry to address national challenges with AI solutions."
“The Presidential AI Challenge will be the first step in preparing our next generation with a base understanding of this important new technology,” she said. "In just a few short years, artificial intelligence will be the engine driving every business sector across our economy. It is important America leads the rest of the world.”
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