Trump Jabs Vanity Fair For Apologizing For Video Mocking Hillary Clinton

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands next to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Phot... Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands next to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) MORE LESS
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In prime President Trump form, the leader of the free world took to Twitter Thursday morning to mock Vanity Fair for apologizing for publishing a video that poked fun at Hillary Clinton.

Trump said the publication “looks like its on its last leg” and insulted an executive of Vanity Fair, Anna Wintour, who he claimed was “beside herself in grief and begging for forgiveness!”

While Wintour does serve as the artistic director for the publishing company, she is editor-in-chief of Vogue, not Vanity Fair.

Trump’s unsolicited input could reignite a debate that Vanity Fair sought to extinguish with a statement of apology Wednesday evening. The publication said it “missed the mark” when it published a video featuring Vanity Fair editors offering Clinton ideas for a New Years resolution. In the video, which Vanity Fair said was meant to be funny, the editors offered Clinton suggestions on new hobbies that would prohibit her from running for president again, like taking up knitting or volunteering.

Online outcry ensued quickly over the remarks, which were perceived by many as anti-feminist. A-list celebrities like Patricia Arquette even weighed, suggesting the publication stop telling women what they should or can do.

Many journalists, however, defended the publication and the editor who made the knitting comments, saying the backlash was being blown out of proportion.

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  1. Being presidential, err, pestilential as always.

  2. Ya know ya really get to the point where you just don’t give a fuck what he has to say.
    The North Koreans nailed it .
    “Yapping Dog”

  3. …“beside herself in grief and begging for forgiveness!”

    Ironically, that’s exactly how I picture Donald when the verdicts are returned from the Mueller indictments.

  4. Breaking news: He’s golfing again today. Will he hide behind the truck again? That totally fooled everyone yesterday.

  5. I really, really, really despise most millennial women. They’re assholes. Totally entitled jerks who have no clue about the struggles of the women who came before them, the women who paved the way.

    I was so glad yesterday to see Vanity Fair dragged through the streets of Twitter yesterday with many people canceling their subscriptions. The comments were sexist as hell. We don’t do this shit to men.

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