This Isn't The First Time Donald Trump Picked A Fight With Vanity Fair

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America awoke today into the only mildly surprising reality of President-elect Donald J. Trump directing his early-morning Twitter spotlight at the circulation rate of Vanity Fair magazine and the fate of its editor-in-chief, Graydon Carter, and not at, well, literally anything else occurring in the world. The reason for Trump’s ire was quickly hypothesized to be a story published on the magazine’s website yesterday (and prominently displayed on the homepage today) written by staff reporter Tina Nguyen, whose headline wonders if Trump Grill might be “the worst restaurant in America.”

Trump’s feud with Vanity Fair is, at this point, decades old; more to the point, it’s beef with Carter personally. In the mists of the late ‘80s, Carter started to refer to Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in the pages of now-defunct Spy magazine, and he brought his jovial disdain for the celebrity businessman with him when he took over Vanity Fair in 1992. The famously thin-skinned Trump has always thrown pebbles at Carter’s publication, but it wasn’t until Carter began moonlighting as a restaurateur that Trump could stop relying primarily on the magazine as a metonymic crutch, and instead could take shots at Carter’s personal endeavors.

Carter has had his hands in three New York restaurants over the last decade, beginning with The Waverly Inn in 2006, Monkey Bar in 2009, and most recently a revamp of the Beatrice Inn in 2015 (which he recently sold to its chef, Angie Mar). All of them are — or, at their peak, were — posh, expensive, power-and-fame-attracting revivals of beloved old New York City haunts.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/donald-trumps-restaurant-feud-with-vanity-fair-goes-way-way-back/ar-AAlBIU6

Trump does all his best Tweeting at 3:00 AM. Keep digging that hole!

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1. Whats Up With How Teen Vogue Is So Badass Lately?

Please excuse my uncharacteristically naughty language.

Whats Up With How Teen Vogue Is So Badass Lately?

There was a thread here a few days ago about Teen Vogue:

Teen Vogue: Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America

it's the new Sassy!

What’s Up With How ‘Teen Vogue’ Is So Badass Lately?

By Evan Hurst - December 12, 2016 - 11:44am

This is the world we live in right now: Donald Trump is going to be the president of the United States, Prince and David Bowie are dead, and also Teen Vogue is somehow contributing some of the most important journalism commentary on the rise of Donald Trump that exists. Oh, and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. But yeah, about Teen Vogue, what’s up with how it’s all of a sudden SO GOOD?

This weekend, if you are on the Facebooks or the Twitters, you probably have seen somebody share this Teen Vogue piece on gaslighting written by editor Lauren Duca. It’s a great piece that explains the origin of the term, and applies it to the behavior of Donald J. Trump, whose relationship with the truth is nonexistent as far as we can tell. It’s important because the art of psychological manipulation known as “gaslighting” is exactly what the president-elect does to people. It’s not just that he’s a pathological liar — he actually uses his lies to abuse people. Go read it! It is in Teen Vogue, for some reason!

Monday morning, contributor Lily Herman published a piece about Trump’s insane and terrifying belief that his “smart” brain alone will keep us safe, and that he therefore doesn’t need to attend any stinkin’ intelligence briefings. It’s a smart piece that includes Trump tweets from 2012 and 2014 where, SURPRISE, he criticizes President Obama for not attending intelligence briefings. Of course, Trump was lying when he tweeted those things, and there’s no evidence that he actually cares about learning what he needs to know to protect America as president, since he’s pretty sure the U.S. intelligence community is fake and in the tank for Hillary. Also, Vladimir Putin hasn’t given Trump marching orders to keep America safe, so it’s not on his to-do list. That piece, again, is in Teen Vogue.

Yes, there are still pieces about fashion and items at the H & M store that “KEEP SELLING OUT,” but right there in the middle, highlighted all big league, is “This Is What I Learned from DAPL Protestors as a Woman of Color.” Teen Vogue is WOKE these days, you guys! And not in the gross sarcastic sense! ... Part of that might be because back in May, the magazine hired Elaine Welteroth, a 29-year-old black woman who is the youngest editor ever, and also only the second black editor ever, in the Condé Nast family of publications, which also includes Grown Lady Vogue and also Vanity Fair and also some other magazines. You’ll remember, of course, that the longtime editor of Vanity Fair is Graydon Carter, a man who has hated Donald Trump since the very founding of America. Our point is that Condé Nast publications, in general, are probably going to be responsible for A LOT of good journalism over the next few years.

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