President Donald Trump mocked Vanity Fair’s attempt to apologize to Hillary Clinton and her supporters for a video that suggested she take up knitting in the new year, which many saw as sexist.
‘Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H,’ Trump’s tweet began. ‘Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!’
On Saturday, Vanity Fair tweeted a video made by its staffers that listed ‘6 New Year’s Resolutions for Hillary Clinton,’ which included suggestions to keep her from not running for president again.
President Trump mocked Vanity Fair for apologizing to Hillary Clinton and her supporters over a video that suggested she take up knitting in order to stay away from the 2020 presidential race
The president’s tweet also suggested that Conde Nast’s artistic director Anna Wintour (left), the editor-in-chief of Vogue, was ‘begging for forgiveness’ over a video that listed new year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton (right)
Among those ideas: writing a sequel to ‘What Happened’ entitled ‘What the Hell Happened’ and taking more photos with hikers in the woods.
The final suggestion was that Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, choose a new hobby, with a Vanity Fair writer listing volunteer work, knitting and improv comedy as options.
‘Literally anything that will keep you from running again,’ the staffer noted.
However, the knitting quip especially angered Clinton fans who took to the internet to proclaim that people should #CancelVanityFair over it.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Vanity Fair sent out an apology.
‘It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark,’ a representative for Vanity Fair said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Trump suggested that Wintour, a friend and fundraiser for Clinton, was ‘begging for forgiveness’ too.
Wintour, known best as being editor-in-chief of Vogue, also serves as the artistic director for Conde Nast, the parent company of Vanity Fair.
It was a title she received in 2013, but expanded upon this year once longtime Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter retired in September.
Throughout last year Wintour hosted a number of fundraisers for Clinton, including lavish soirees in London and Paris to attract the expat crowd to the Democrat’s campaign.
There were reports in late 2012 that President Obama was considering appointing Wintour as the United States’ ambassador to the United Kingdom, known formally in the U.K. as ambassador of the United States to the Court of St James’s – a move that never happened.
There was some speculation that if Clinton won, she’d put Wintour in that post.
HAPPIER TIMES: This undated image shows now President Trump (center) flanked by Melania Trump (left) and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (right)
President Trump has long had it out for Vanity Fair and the magazine’s former editor Graydon Carter, who nicknamed Trump a ‘short-fingered vulgarian’ when Carter was at the helm of the magazine, Spy
The president’s ire for Vanity Fair is nothing new, as former editor Carter – who famously labeled Trump a ‘short-fingered vulgarian’ when at the helm of Spy magazine – counted that he’d been tweeted about 42 times when retiring in September.
In October 2012, Trump wrote, ‘Can’t wait for @VanityFair to fold which, under Graydon Carter, will be sooner rather than later.’
Fourteen months later, Trump mouthed off again.
‘If Graydon Carter’s very dumb bosses would fire him for his terrible circulation numbers at failing Vanity Fair-his bad food restaurants die,’ the then-businessman said.
Even after winning last year’s presidential election, Trump still had a beef with Vanity Fair and Carter.
‘Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!’ he wrote during the presidential transition on December 15, 2016.