During Donald Trump’s first term, there was a lot of chatter about how none of the major American magazines would put Melania Trump on their cover. You have to understand, the Obama era was the golden age of “political spouses engaging with print media and pop culture.” Michelle Obama was on all of the magazine covers, from Vogue to InStyle to Essence to Good Housekeeping. MO also regularly appeared on talk shows. Melania Trump was not and is not welcome in those spaces at all. It felt like such a small thing, but I’m grateful for it all the same, that magazine editors around the country all said “absolutely not” when it came to whitewashing or glorifying the Trumps. Well, in Trump’s second term, there is once again chatter about Melania appearing on various magazine covers. Well, Vanity

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