‘Freelance Magician’: Vogue Offers Brutal Take On Melania Trump’s New Photo

The first lady “cosplays” her husband President Donald Trump’s former reality TV show “The Apprentice” in photographer Régine Mahaux’s black-and-white image released this week, read the headline of fashion writer Hannah Jackson’s article.

Melania Trump “looked more like she was guest starring on an episode” of the business-themed show than “assuming the role of first lady of the United States,” wrote Jackson. And a tuxedo “made Trump look more like a freelance magician than a public servant,” she added.

Vogue and Melania Trump have history.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was asked about the purported snubbing of Melania Trump in 2019.

“I think you can’t be everything to everybody. Those of us that work at [Vogue publisher] Conde Nast believe that you have to stand up for what you believe in, and you have to take a point of view,” Wintour told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.