White House opens doors to Anna Wintour despite Melania Trump feud
Donald Trump has opened the White House to Anna Wintour despite her long-running feud with his wife Melania.
The Vogue editor-in-chief met Susie Wiles, Mr Trump's chief of staff, in Washington DC on Thursday to discuss tariff relief for the fashion industry.
However, there is tension between Wintour and Mrs Trump because Vogue never featured her on its cover during her time as first lady, unlike several of her predecessors.
She did, though, appear on the magazine's front page in Feb 2005 when it covered her marriage to Mr Trump.
At her meeting with Ms Wiles, Wintour claimed that fashion was 'already one of the most heavily tariffed industries in the US', and argued further duties would place it at a 'disproportionate advantage'.
It is unclear whether the first lady was at the White House during Wintour's visit, but by and large her stays in Washington DC have been brief in favour of her homes at Trump Tower in New York or Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
According to Amy Odell, a biographer of Wintour, Vogue made two attempts to photograph Mrs Trump during her husband's first term, but she refused both because it would not guarantee her a spot on the cover.
When Wintour visited Mr Trump in New York in 2016 following his first election win, Mrs Trump is said to have been so 'offended' that she was not informed beforehand that she 'didn't even say hello'.
Mrs Trump, a former model, apparently believed she was resented by figures at the magazine, according to a book by her former confidant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
'I don't give a f--- about Vogue or any other magazine. They would never put me on the cover. All these people are so mad,' she is reported to have said.
When Mrs Trump's official portrait was released in January, Vogue ran an opinion column declaring she looked 'more like a freelance magician than a public servant'.
Jill Biden, Mrs Trump's immediate predecessor as first lady, was featured on the front of the magazine last year during the presidential race, and in 2021 with the caption: 'A first lady for all of us'.
Michelle Obama made the cover twice – in 2009, shortly after Barack Obama's inauguration, and in 2016 as they prepared to leave the White House – while Hillary Clinton appeared in 1999.
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