We have a saying around here, “You can’t hate the media enough,” and the reason it resonates is because every time you think they’ve sunk to a new low, they sink just that much lower. On Tuesday, the fashion magazine Vogue unleashed such a bitter, elitist, nasty critique of First Lady Melania Trump’s official portrait, which was released Monday, that it made your jaw drop. It was a story about a portrait, for Pete's sake. 

Many, including our own Becky Noble, thought Melania was stylish and gorgeous and showed “her trademark class and elegance.”

Melania Trump's Official White House Portrait Is Out - and It Speaks Volumes (VIP)

But Vogue, the trash rag best known for sucking up to Hollywood celebrities and progressive Democrats, didn’t like it. They said the First Lady was "cosplaying":

Melania Trump opted for a tuxedo for her black-and-white boardroom pastiche. https://t.co/4Gr8n5LvN2

— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) January 28, 2025

Wow, feminism and support for women sure have some weird angles.  As someone of the male persuasion, forgive me if I sometimes just don’t get it. 

Talk about catty:

Indeed, 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.

Trump’s clothing certainly didn’t help the boardroom pastiche. The first lady wore a black Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo jacket with satin-trimmed lapels over a white button-up, which she paired with a Ralph Lauren cummerbund and trousers. The choice to wear a tuxedo—as opposed to a blazer or blouse—made Trump look more like a freelance magician than a public servant. 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—even when faced with 248 years of tradition.

Remember, this is the same magazine that put Jill Biden—whose outfits often looked like 1950s curtains—Kamala “pantsuit” Harris and Michelle Obama on the cover multiple times, relentlessly chiding us to profess that they’re all stupendously beautiful, but the former model and still stunning Melania is a “freelance magician.” 

Meow.

Oh look. A magazine for women tearing pieces out of ...women.@voguemagazine https://t.co/EriylyYwNK

— Kathy Gyngell (@KathyConWom) January 29, 2025

The article, written by some childish mean girl named Hannah Jackson, continued on in that snotty, elitist tone, but I don’t think we need to sully our pages with any more of her drivel. The piece perfectly summarizes why so many Americans despise much of our media—no, Vogue isn’t a newspaper, but you can find it on every coffee table in the Hamptons, and for some reason that escapes me they carry significant influence in power circles—and find the progressive class to be so out-of-touch and unappealing.

Yes, it’s just a glossy magazine, but this kind of vitriolic output over a simple photograph shows you once again how unhinged and truly loathsome many Trump detractors routinely become in their desperate attempts to delegitimize the president and his family.

It’s not working anymore. 

When you think you’ve come to hate the media as much as you can... they always find a way to make you detest them that much more.