Rogue at Vogue; Ivanka Trump met with editors at Conde Nast on June 12, 2017 (above in NYC on that date)
Ivanka Trump and rogue Vogue editrix Anna Wintour organized a secret meeting between the first daughter and Conde Nast editors.
A new profile of the magazine publisher – which houses titles including GQ, Bon Appetit, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and the aforementioned Vogue – reveals that Wintour did not tell the guests the reason for the meeting, only saying there would be a surprise guest.
‘The message was: Be polite,’ an editor who attended the meeting told New York.
Many were ‘taken aback’ however when Wintour introduced Ivanka, noting how ‘brave’ it was for her to face the room.
It is unclear if Trump-family foe Graydon Carter was at this meting, but less than three months alter he announced he would be stepping down as editor of Vanity Fair after 25 years,
Wintour was also using the meeting to make a clear show of her power at Conde Nast, something that Carter did soon after when Vanity Fair published a piece about Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.
‘Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka were Repelled by Washington Elite,’ was the headline.
That story included a quote from one former West Wing staffer, who said: ‘There’s nothing more obstructive and distracting and unhelpful than to have a bunch of stupid apolitical family members calling all the shots.’
A little over a week after it went online, Carter shared the news of his exit.
Regal immigrants: It is unclear if Graydon Carter was the meeting, abut the Vanity Fair editor announced his departure soon after (Wintour left, Carter right)
Carter said when that he thought of stepping down earlier at the time, but decided to stay on after President Trump won the election.
He first made a foe of Trump with a column for his magazine ‘Spy,’ referring to him as a ‘short-fingered vulgarian.’ded the magazine’s annual Oscar party on three occasions, most recently in 2011.
TVanity Fair then became a harsh critic during the election, with Carter personally writing a searing piece on Trump in the November issue.
In that piece he wrote about a number of things, including dining out with Trump.
‘Dinner with Trump is generally a one-sided affair. He talks so much and with such velocity that it can make your hair flutter. Whatever wife he has at the time tends to say nothing,’ wrote Carter.
The magazine editor later wrote: ‘He has touched – embraced – every third rail in American politics. He has offended (and I apologize if I’ve left some group out): African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, war heroes – war heroes! – families of war heroes, the disabled, women, and babies. Babies! Through word or action, Trump has promoted gun violence, bigotry, ignorance, intolerance, lying, and just about everything else that can be wrong with a society.’
Carter also detailed the night he took Trump as his guest to the 1993 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Halfway through the evening the guest next to him, the model Vendela Kirsebom, came over in tears.
‘It seems that Trump had spent his entire time with her assaying the ‘tits’ and legs of the other female guests and asking how they measured up to those of other women, including his wife,’ wrote Carter.
”’He is,’ she told me, in words that seemed familiar, ‘the most vulgar man I have ever met.”’
Kirsebom, 49, spoke about that interview during an interview with DailyMail.com back in October of last year.
‘Everything he said was so vulgar. I couldn’t listen to his nonsense for an entire night so I asked if I could be moved,’ she said.
‘He talked about big breasts, small breasts, how one was better than the other and the differences between them.
‘His main focus was breasts and the sizes of women’s bodies. Fat women were not real women in his opinion.’
She added: ‘He basically said if you are not attractive and beautiful, then you don’t have any purpose as a woman.’