OAN Staff Abril Elfi
4:07 PM – Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Vanity Fair employees have reportedly threatened to walk out in protest if First Lady Melania Trump is chosen to be featured on the magazine’s cover.
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine all about popular culture, fashion, and current affairs.
According to a report by the Daily Mail, multiple staffers, who wished to remain anonymous, said that if the magazine’s global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, pushed through with his suggested plan to put the GOP first lady on the cover, the fashion magazine’s employees would face a meltdown.
Some even suggested that the company would face a significant upheaval.
“I will walk out the motherf—– door, and half my staff will follow me,” one editor told the outlet.
Semafor first reported that Guiducci was reportedly considering putting Melania on the cover.
The stunning first lady was notably left off the cover of Vanity Fair and Condé Nast’s Vogue during her husband’s first term presidency, despite the magazines historically spotlighting incoming first ladies, such as Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Hillary Clinton.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama was featured on the cover of Vogue three separate times during President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, and Jill Biden landed two Vogue covers during President Joe Biden’s term.
However, Melania did appear on the cover of Vanity Fair Mexico in 2017, and she was previously featured in Vogue in 2005, shortly after marrying now-President Donald Trump. At the time, Trump was best known as a wealthy New York real estate developer and a household name as the star of NBC’s hit reality show “The Apprentice.”
Another Vanity Fair staffer told the Daily Mail that their objection was wholly political.
“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.” A despot is a ruler with absolute power and authority.
The staffer emphasized that they would even go as far as to risk their career over the decision, and predicted that many in the writer’s room would do the same.
“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,” the editor asserted.
However, not everyone agreed with the idea of a walkout. Another employee told the Daily Mail that the work chatter and backlash would be short-lived — suggesting that the other staffers were just being dramatic.
“It’s all talk. If they put her on the cover, people will protest and gripe about it, but I don’t see anyone quitting such a prestigious job over that,” the staffer said.
“Honestly, there will be people who push back, but it’s ultimately Mark’s decision. He’s the one who will sink or swim over that choice, not the rest of us,” they added.
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