Vanity Fair may soon have more drama in its offices than on its glossy pages.The magazine’s new global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, has reportedly floated the idea of putting US First Lady Melania Trump on the cover, a move that has left woke staffers fuming and threatening to storm out of Condé Nast headquarters if it goes ahead, according to Semafor.‘I’ll bag groceries at Trader Joe’s’One furious editor unleashed to the Daily Mail: “I will walk out the motherf****** door, and half my staff will follow me. We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s, I’ll do it.”The outrage stems from long-simmering tensions over how fashion magazines treated the Trumps. Melania, a former model, was conspicuously left off Vanity Fair and Vogue covers during her husband’s first administration. By contrast, Michelle Obama appeared on Vogue’s cover three times as First Lady.‘It’s all talk’Not everyone at the glossy is buying the meltdown. Another staffer coolly dismissed the tantrums, “It’s all talk. People will protest and gripe about it, but I don’t see anyone quitting such a prestigious job over that. Honestly, it’s Mark’s decision. He’ll sink or swim on it, not the rest of us.”Guiducci, who took over the top job earlier this year, appears eager to make his mark, though whether that involves a Trump cover shoot remains to be seen.Melania’s indifferenceAs for Melania herself? She has shrugged off the snubs in the past as well, insisting she has “no interest” in glossy covers. “Look, I’ve been there on the covers, Vogue, many magazines… We have so many more important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine,” she told Fox News, adding that her appearance wouldn’t “change life for anybody.”
