After spending the past four years fawning over former First Lady Jill Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, who have both been featured on the cover multiple times, Vogue launched an attack on First Lady Melania Trump, comparing her to a “freelance magician.” “Trump look[ed] more like a freelance magician than a public servant,” Vogue fashion writer Hannah Jackson wrote of Melania Trump’s recently-unveiled official White House portrait. In her piece, published Tuesday, Jackson goes on to say, “Trump looked more like she was guest starring on an episode of The Apprentice than assuming the role of first lady of the United States,” adding that the black-and-white photo looks like as though the first lady is trying to convey, “You’re fired.
” “Trump’s clothing certainly didn’t help the boardroom pastiche,” the fashion writer continues, before critiquing Melania Trump’s Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo jacket and Ralph Lauren cummerbund and trousers, attacking her “choice to wear a tuxedo” over “a blazer or blouse.” “It’s perhaps unsurprising that a woman who lived in a gold-encrusted penthouse, whose fame is so intertwined with a reality-television empire, would refuse to abandon theatrics,” Jackson further lamented. The Vogue fashion writer went on to point out that the first lady’s portrait “is noticeably more toned down than her 2017 White House portrait,” which showed Melania Trump in color, “wide-eyed” and “smiling.
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