President-elect Donald Trump took another shot at the media Thursday, this time declaring Vanity Fair is “way down, big trouble, dead!”
Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFairMagazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!
Graydon Carter has been the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. The tweet is presumably a reaction to two stories the outlet ran on Wednesday about Jackie Evancho performing at the inauguration, with the headline, “Someone Has Finally Agreed to Perform at Donald Trump’s Inauguration,” as well as a review of Trump’s restaurant, titled “Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America.”
TheWrap reported that Trump’s campaign has had such difficulty finding a performer for the inaugural festivities that it offered ambassadorships to at least two talent bookers if they could deliver marquee names.
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However, Carter and Trump’s feud goes back further than that. Politicoreported that in the 1980s, Spy magazine — a magazine which Carter co-founded — called Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
“There was a threatened lawsuit, resulting in a lot of back-and-forth legal letters between him and me. And we printed all of those,” Carter wrote in a first-person essay for Vanity Fair in November, chronicling the declining relationship. “Our relationship, never strong, progressively went sour. Like others who have not kissed the ring on his tiny finger, I have been subjected to a flurry of damning and awkwardly worded tweets.”
And Trump’s hands were a big conversation topic during the election. When Sen. Marco Rubio made a joke about Trump’s hands during the Republican presidential primary, Trump held up his hands and said, “Look at these hands. Are these small hands? And he referred to my hands if they’re small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”
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