00:00Vanity Fair's new top editor is looking into featuring First Lady Melania Trump on the magazine's cover.
00:07And it's a decision that reportedly has some Vanity Fair staff threatening to quit.
00:15According to Simaphore, new editor Mark Guaducci is looking to expand the magazine's reach with how it covers public figures.
00:24And he told people he's potentially interested in collaborating with the First Lady.
00:30Melania Trump was not featured on the cover of either Vanity Fair or Vogue in their U.S. editions during President Donald Trump's first term.
00:38While others, like First Lady Michelle Obama, have made the covers, Melania is the only First Lady with a professional fashion modeling career.
00:48Rumors about a potential Vanity Fair and Melania Trump collaboration have some employees at the magazine speaking out and threatening a walkout.
00:59Some employees spoke anonymously to the Daily Mail, with one mid-level editor saying they would walk out of the door and half of their staff would follow them out.
01:10Another staffer wrote,
01:11We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife. We're just not going to do it. We're going to stand for what's right.
01:19Another staffer said they would work bagging groceries at Trader Joe's before standing by if the new editor did put Melania Trump on the cover.
01:29The First Lady has expressed no interest in being featured on glossy magazine covers.
01:34She told Fox News last winter she wanted to focus on other causes she says deserve attention.
01:40Look, I've been there on the covers, on the cover of Vogue, on the covers of many magazines before, and, you know, for me, we have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine.
01:59I think the life would not change for anybody if I'm on the cover of the magazine.
02:05Can I retract?
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