I personally don't know anyone who cares what any of these people look like or are portrayed as looking like. I spent infinitely more time looking at Pat Summerall clutching a microphone than I ever will at his daughter.
And the most photogenic shot I've seen in my lifetime is an overweight old guy with blood gushing from his ear on a sunny July day in Butler, Pa.
That's who these people are, the ones who did that. And why we fight, fight, fight.
Let me get this straight; the left is lying and distorting factual information. OK, thanks for the heads up. I would have never ascertained this without your astute observation and and ascertainment of their methodology. LOL...
You’re a trolling loser desperate to matter in your insignificant, sorry-ass life where nobody respects you or anything you think. We see you through your comment. 🤣🤣
I totally understand why everyone on the right is bothered by this piece of “ journalism “ because it is a gross misrepresentation of this administration.
That being said, I keep thinking that if anyone is reading Vanity Fair to help form their political views they aren’t smart enough to matter.
He isn't lying about the improvements in the economy nor about the fact that the economy will keep improving.
We had just two choices for POTUS in 2024. Both candidates are flawed. Biden's 4 years were all I needed, in company with more than 70 million other people, to realize this country could not survive another Democrat President.
I have voted Dem in the past but that won't happen again unless the rational ones in the party can gain the majority and go back to the good liberal values they once were renowned for cherishing.
I always thought she looked like the minority version of a Raggedy Ann doll. That's not a dig. It's an interesting look. Looks shouldn't matter though unless it's the TV weather girl.
G*d sees us how we are, warts and all. And also in our random moments of pure love and kindness as well that we share with other folks that no one sees at all.
If I weren’t well aware of how evil and desperate these folks are, I would pity them. IN fact, living for such superficial attributes creates its own hell. Their boasting and glee at tearing down others stems from the worst sin of all—Pride. God help them. Perhaps in His grace someone that loves others, truly, will reach some of these sad sad cases.
I doubt that any of the Trump administration is fretting. They have happy families and have achieved real progress—despite the tantrums of the Left and their media/judicial/political handmaidens—for the American people.
There's a danger among the 7 deadly sins that has serious consequences. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins come into play with what we are experiencing today.
1. Pride is known as hubris or futility; it is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins—the most demonic—on almost every list. Pride is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Pride is viewed as the opposite of humility.
Pride is the state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: (Gay) Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. It severs the human spirit from God, as well as from the life and grace given by God's presence.
2. Lust or lechery is intense longing. It is usually viewed as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which may lead to fornication (including adultery, rape, or bestiality), and other sinful and sexual acts; however, lust can also denote other forms of unbridled desire, such as for money or power.
3. Wrath can be defined as uncontrolled feelings of anger, rage, and even hatred. Wrath often reveals itself in the wish to seek vengeance. The neutral act of anger becomes the sin of wrath when it is directed against an innocent person; when it is unduly strong or long-lasting; or when it desires excessive punishment. If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity. Hatred is the sin of desiring that someone else may suffer misfortune or evil, and it is a mortal sin when one desires grave harm. The wrath of God is a separate issue as it is earned wrath from the sins of man.
Better you look at the mental process of the string of murderers who are transgender.
Where were you as the Kennedy Center facilities and programming were going to shit? Trump is restoring it to something JFK would appreciate. Don't demonstrate your ignorance about his last two speeches or the timing of execution. You're becoming an embarrassment.
Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare, and in fact, those groups are far more likely to be the victims of violence.
JFK's relatives certainly don't like it. the Trump - Kennedy Center.
So hard for you to admit his speech was full of lies.
Actually we don’t need studies to document the number of disturbed transgenders committing horrific acts: 1)Covenant School in TN, 2) recent shooting in MN private Catholic school, 3) Tyler Robinson influenced by his trans/furry love interest just to name the last couple of years.
It is unnatural and the drug and surgical interventions have been shown by the study in UK to NOT be productive towards better health for these folks. We fail them when we whack off breasts and penises in a vain attempt to surgically. mimic a different anatomy. Have you read the testimonies of the many who regret these surgeries?
His speech wasn't full of lies AND he got 200 million in donations to fix the crumbling Lincoln Center so his name should be on it. I would've had JFK's name first, as he came first, but that's just me.
Oh for goodness sakes. The Kennedy Center was moribund prior to reprogramming. Perhaps the new shows aren’t to your taste, not elite enough?
Even the NYT admits that there is no there there re. Trump and Epstein.
I didn’t see wrath in his speech—though it was rushed. Not sure what “lies” you are discussing, but honestly I doubt we’ll agree on anything about the “Orange Man Bad”.
Nearly nine months into the president’s oversight, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Some of his lies:
“Inflation is stopped.” - 3.0% in Jan, 2.7% now.
“when I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country.”- "US inflation rate hit about a 40-year high during the Biden administration in June 2022, 9.1% (remember Covid?), but even that was not close to the all-time record of 23.7%, set in 1920 – and it occurred more than two years before Trump returned. Inflation had plummeted before Trump’s inauguration."
Eggs are down & "And everything else is falling rapidly.” - Consumer Price Index data shows that a far greater number of grocery items have increased in price since he returned to office than have decreased.
“I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States.” - “White House’s own website said the figure was “$9.6 trillion,” and even that is a major exaggeration as it includes vague statements that don't rise to the level of pledges.
“25 million” migrants entered the country under Biden. - Through December 2024, the federal government had recorded under 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants including millions who were rapidly expelled from the country. Even adding in the so-called gotaways who evaded detection, estimated by House REPUBLICANS as being roughly 2.2 million.
If all the nighttime "ghost flights" were counted, the numer of migrants admitted before Trump took office may be well over the official 11 million reported. In addition to charter flights, the CBP One app allowed migrants to fly directly into the US, bypassing the southern border entirely.
Trump dumped Epstein before Epstein started his sexual assault ring, he was on Epstein's plane a couple of times WITH HIS FAMILY AT THE TIME, he was NEVER seen on Epstein's island, SO YOU ARE A LIAR AND SLANDERER for putting "Epstein" in your remarks.
And Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-logo in the early aughts. One head housekeeper said it was because Epstein was trying to get into the pants of a daughter of one of the members and she was "on the younger side".
Why are you ignoring all the liberals who took part in the "fun" at Epstein's Island?? If Trump had done anything nasty there the liberals would have already taken him down with it. Are you really that clueless, dumb or ignorant? I am guessing all three.
That statement was taken totally out of context! I read it. They intentionally twisted Trump's words as usual. And, as usual, the liberals bite on it every single time! Burst of that bubble you live in. It's for your own good...
I wonder how many males on the planet have said the words "grabbing p**y" or something very similar? And in all languages? I should probably say "How many billions?".
Not exactly sure where you are going here…always tough with these long threads.
But I do think we need to beware of MANIPULATION—which has been prevalent in the media even before social media, and now with AI may be turbocharged. This is one reason why I prefer reading and listening over viewing for podcasts.
Perhaps. But seems to me that video works on more receptors. Reading engages more critical facilities. Much like the research that shows that taking notes in a lecture helps engage different areas of the brain and enhances memory.
Yes the Left for the most part is far more engaged in their feelings…thus more easily maipulated.
At first I thought the White House was incredibly naive to participate in the Vanity Fair profile. Didn't they know this would happen? But maybe they they also knew that these pictures would bring out the worst in the Left and it would backfire on them.
Suzy Wiles and JD Vance are very smart, so they had to know. It's like "Trump is a felon" backfired so bad it helped get him elected. The article makes them look like upstart underdogs being mocked by the left which helps them politically.
Not only that, the serial impeachments and relentless attacks on Trump and his wealth by shyster judges made people realize: if they can do this to Trump, they can do it to me. When the Democrats weaponize the DOJ and the FBI, they show their true colors.
And what are the Dems doing now? Doubling down on trying to make him look bad. They are so narcissistic, they don't realize the damage they are doing to their own party. Who's the most popular Democrat senator now? John Fetterman, who the Dems are stupidly planning to primary, to drive him out.
Not sure if they thought this far ahead, but this is a bonus for the Trump team. The Vanity Fair crowd is giong to think what they think, but for everyone else it makes them look utterly atrocious, petty, and wildly unprofessional. Give a point to the Trump Administration for this one (if they were actually laying a trap).
I subscribed to Vanity Fair for years. At some point I vaguely realized it had changed and stopped subscribing. But since I like reading magazines, I checked back a few times hoping to like it again. Each time it had gotten worse!
Thank you Sasha. I haven’t bothered to follow any of this online, so now I know. What rubbish. I used to enjoy VF but I haven’t read it in years. Same with Vogue, which used to be great. I still have my original copy of Vogue with Melania Trump on the cover in her wedding dress. I knew I should keep it all those years ago, and I’m glad that I did. It has a very nice editorial inside too.
I think one of our dear Sasha's podcasts is worth more than a 10 year subscription to Vanity Fair. Her ability to put together video and text and Tik-Tok and blend it all into a seamless and compelling narrative is outstanding and very entertaining. She's a genius. And we love her.
I guess Georgia will be returned to the redneck rube state column now that it's been revealed in court that 315,000 Fulton County absentee ballots were run through the counting machines twice in 2020. Even that level of cheating only got an 11k win for Biden.
Vanity Fair will last as long as the employees there are sufficiently lickspittle to whomever is covering the red ink. There is always the danger that their Mackenzie Scott, whoever it is, may become bored.
Meanwhile us rubes just keep ticking along. Alabama doesn't need Neil Young, to borrow the lyric. Neither does a majority of America. Nor does it need VF or NYT.
I actually think I would lean-in to some of these photos. I really like one of Rubio
These look like real people.
They look like people you see in your city or town.
They look like they're under pressure.
They look like they're imperfect.
They look human.
I don't think this as big a win for the left as you might think.
People are tired of voting for politicians who look polished and fake. I mean Trump, even if you love him, he's got a wacky look. People don't care, actually they like it, because it's the real him
I personally don't know anyone who cares what any of these people look like or are portrayed as looking like. I spent infinitely more time looking at Pat Summerall clutching a microphone than I ever will at his daughter.
And the most photogenic shot I've seen in my lifetime is an overweight old guy with blood gushing from his ear on a sunny July day in Butler, Pa.
That's who these people are, the ones who did that. And why we fight, fight, fight.
Let me get this straight; the left is lying and distorting factual information. OK, thanks for the heads up. I would have never ascertained this without your astute observation and and ascertainment of their methodology. LOL...
Ohhhh, how clever of name change to sneak back in. What a boring loser you are. Go away
Uh, are you naturally a dope and unfunny, or are you a self-made person who's worked at it long and hard?
Let's see a magnified closeup of your face, RH.
It seemed like sarc to me
You’re a trolling loser desperate to matter in your insignificant, sorry-ass life where nobody respects you or anything you think. We see you through your comment. 🤣🤣
I totally understand why everyone on the right is bothered by this piece of “ journalism “ because it is a gross misrepresentation of this administration.
That being said, I keep thinking that if anyone is reading Vanity Fair to help form their political views they aren’t smart enough to matter.
DId you listen to trump's speech which was full of lies?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/17/trump-presidential-speech-angry-rant/87818778007/ Trump's crazed address was as unnerving as Biden's debate |
Inflation numbers came out today and they are lower than they have been for a long while.
Headline CPI-U inflation was 2.74 percent. Food price inflation was 2.65 percent. Energy price inflation was 4.24 percent. Has "inflation stopped"?
We're always going to have some inflation, in normal circumstances. And 2.74 and 2.65 is pretty normal, so the abnormal high inflation HAS stopped.
Since covid abatement 2022 when it was very high
It continued thru 2022 and COVID ended early 2022.
He isn't lying about the improvements in the economy nor about the fact that the economy will keep improving.
We had just two choices for POTUS in 2024. Both candidates are flawed. Biden's 4 years were all I needed, in company with more than 70 million other people, to realize this country could not survive another Democrat President.
Good to see you again HL3...please enlighten us more.
Believe it or not, there is more than one democrat in the US.
Very few I would ever vote to be POTUS.
Well,, there are also around 70 M dems. I might vote repub but not anyone associated with maga.
I have voted Dem in the past but that won't happen again unless the rational ones in the party can gain the majority and go back to the good liberal values they once were renowned for cherishing.
One of his best speeches ever!
Yes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62_0amje204
La la la la la la lies? Have a nice day 😎
I am not bothered by this. My only question is who looks at the filth that VF produces.
Most of us are manipulated. In that sense, this is just one more narrative building manipulation.
Karine checked off 3 of the Left’s boxes: she’s a “minority”, a lesbian and woefully retarded.
I always thought she looked like the minority version of a Raggedy Ann doll. That's not a dig. It's an interesting look. Looks shouldn't matter though unless it's the TV weather girl.
Nice to see the word retarded making a comeback . But please, dont ever go full retard.
Lol
No worries Sasha.
G*d sees us how we are, warts and all. And also in our random moments of pure love and kindness as well that we share with other folks that no one sees at all.
Merry Christmas Sasha.
As my grandmother use to say, “Ugly is as ugly does “
If I weren’t well aware of how evil and desperate these folks are, I would pity them. IN fact, living for such superficial attributes creates its own hell. Their boasting and glee at tearing down others stems from the worst sin of all—Pride. God help them. Perhaps in His grace someone that loves others, truly, will reach some of these sad sad cases.
I doubt that any of the Trump administration is fretting. They have happy families and have achieved real progress—despite the tantrums of the Left and their media/judicial/political handmaidens—for the American people.
There's a danger among the 7 deadly sins that has serious consequences. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins come into play with what we are experiencing today.
1. Pride is known as hubris or futility; it is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins—the most demonic—on almost every list. Pride is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Pride is viewed as the opposite of humility.
Pride is the state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: (Gay) Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. It severs the human spirit from God, as well as from the life and grace given by God's presence.
2. Lust or lechery is intense longing. It is usually viewed as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which may lead to fornication (including adultery, rape, or bestiality), and other sinful and sexual acts; however, lust can also denote other forms of unbridled desire, such as for money or power.
3. Wrath can be defined as uncontrolled feelings of anger, rage, and even hatred. Wrath often reveals itself in the wish to seek vengeance. The neutral act of anger becomes the sin of wrath when it is directed against an innocent person; when it is unduly strong or long-lasting; or when it desires excessive punishment. If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity. Hatred is the sin of desiring that someone else may suffer misfortune or evil, and it is a mortal sin when one desires grave harm. The wrath of God is a separate issue as it is earned wrath from the sins of man.
Quite. Always worth it to view current events from the standpoint of either Scripture or Dante.
Well, Trump checks all those boxes.
Pride: changing the name to Trump - Kennedy Center
Lust: Epstein, Stormy Daniels, sexual assaults...
Wrath: displayed in his recent speech ( along with numerous lies,
Better you look at the mental process of the string of murderers who are transgender.
Where were you as the Kennedy Center facilities and programming were going to shit? Trump is restoring it to something JFK would appreciate. Don't demonstrate your ignorance about his last two speeches or the timing of execution. You're becoming an embarrassment.
https://cssh.northeastern.edu/policyschool/fact-focus-no-incredible-rise-in-transgender-shooters/
Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare, and in fact, those groups are far more likely to be the victims of violence.
JFK's relatives certainly don't like it. the Trump - Kennedy Center.
So hard for you to admit his speech was full of lies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/17/trump-presidential-speech-angry-rant/87818778007/ Trump's crazed address was as unnerving as Biden's debate
Actually we don’t need studies to document the number of disturbed transgenders committing horrific acts: 1)Covenant School in TN, 2) recent shooting in MN private Catholic school, 3) Tyler Robinson influenced by his trans/furry love interest just to name the last couple of years.
It is unnatural and the drug and surgical interventions have been shown by the study in UK to NOT be productive towards better health for these folks. We fail them when we whack off breasts and penises in a vain attempt to surgically. mimic a different anatomy. Have you read the testimonies of the many who regret these surgeries?
His speech wasn't full of lies AND he got 200 million in donations to fix the crumbling Lincoln Center so his name should be on it. I would've had JFK's name first, as he came first, but that's just me.
Three of the Seven Deadly Sins torture the transgender.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UBcF7auDKrh8p1hiimAw6G3u6oOwAxAhuXr6ma0LN-0/edit?usp=sharing
Not hard at all to see the truth in his program and its execution.
Oh for goodness sakes. The Kennedy Center was moribund prior to reprogramming. Perhaps the new shows aren’t to your taste, not elite enough?
Even the NYT admits that there is no there there re. Trump and Epstein.
I didn’t see wrath in his speech—though it was rushed. Not sure what “lies” you are discussing, but honestly I doubt we’ll agree on anything about the “Orange Man Bad”.
Please ignore this mook looking for attention in the only place it will ever get any.
The mute and block controls are a godsend.
Nearly nine months into the president’s oversight, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Some of his lies:
“Inflation is stopped.” - 3.0% in Jan, 2.7% now.
“when I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country.”- "US inflation rate hit about a 40-year high during the Biden administration in June 2022, 9.1% (remember Covid?), but even that was not close to the all-time record of 23.7%, set in 1920 – and it occurred more than two years before Trump returned. Inflation had plummeted before Trump’s inauguration."
Eggs are down & "And everything else is falling rapidly.” - Consumer Price Index data shows that a far greater number of grocery items have increased in price since he returned to office than have decreased.
“I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States.” - “White House’s own website said the figure was “$9.6 trillion,” and even that is a major exaggeration as it includes vague statements that don't rise to the level of pledges.
“25 million” migrants entered the country under Biden. - Through December 2024, the federal government had recorded under 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants including millions who were rapidly expelled from the country. Even adding in the so-called gotaways who evaded detection, estimated by House REPUBLICANS as being roughly 2.2 million.
If all the nighttime "ghost flights" were counted, the numer of migrants admitted before Trump took office may be well over the official 11 million reported. In addition to charter flights, the CBP One app allowed migrants to fly directly into the US, bypassing the southern border entirely.
wow....what is it like to be so consumed with another person? i feel sorry for you
To paraphrase El Rushbo, "Trump is living rent-free in NWCitizen's head".
Trump dumped Epstein before Epstein started his sexual assault ring, he was on Epstein's plane a couple of times WITH HIS FAMILY AT THE TIME, he was NEVER seen on Epstein's island, SO YOU ARE A LIAR AND SLANDERER for putting "Epstein" in your remarks.
He & Epstein were best buds for 15 years. https://www.wlrn.org/light/south-florida/2025-07-20/a-15-year-bond-between-trump-and-epstein-parties-jets-and-women
And Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-logo in the early aughts. One head housekeeper said it was because Epstein was trying to get into the pants of a daughter of one of the members and she was "on the younger side".
Why are you ignoring all the liberals who took part in the "fun" at Epstein's Island?? If Trump had done anything nasty there the liberals would have already taken him down with it. Are you really that clueless, dumb or ignorant? I am guessing all three.
A very serious case of TDS! There is a vaccine, you definitely should inquire!
Make Intelligence Great Again!
Trump has never been convicted of sexual assault(s)....
Several women have accused Trump of groping and assaulting them, then there are Trump's own words about "grabbing p***y".
That statement was taken totally out of context! I read it. They intentionally twisted Trump's words as usual. And, as usual, the liberals bite on it every single time! Burst of that bubble you live in. It's for your own good...
And at least a dozen women have accused Bill Clinton of assaulting them, including rape. Biden has been accused a few times too.
I wonder how many males on the planet have said the words "grabbing p**y" or something very similar? And in all languages? I should probably say "How many billions?".
Not exactly sure where you are going here…always tough with these long threads.
But I do think we need to beware of MANIPULATION—which has been prevalent in the media even before social media, and now with AI may be turbocharged. This is one reason why I prefer reading and listening over viewing for podcasts.
Perhaps. But seems to me that video works on more receptors. Reading engages more critical facilities. Much like the research that shows that taking notes in a lecture helps engage different areas of the brain and enhances memory.
Yes the Left for the most part is far more engaged in their feelings…thus more easily maipulated.
We don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are — William Blake
they really are Cinderella's ugly stepsisters. Ick.
At first I thought the White House was incredibly naive to participate in the Vanity Fair profile. Didn't they know this would happen? But maybe they they also knew that these pictures would bring out the worst in the Left and it would backfire on them.
Suzy Wiles and JD Vance are very smart, so they had to know. It's like "Trump is a felon" backfired so bad it helped get him elected. The article makes them look like upstart underdogs being mocked by the left which helps them politically.
Not only that, the serial impeachments and relentless attacks on Trump and his wealth by shyster judges made people realize: if they can do this to Trump, they can do it to me. When the Democrats weaponize the DOJ and the FBI, they show their true colors.
And what are the Dems doing now? Doubling down on trying to make him look bad. They are so narcissistic, they don't realize the damage they are doing to their own party. Who's the most popular Democrat senator now? John Fetterman, who the Dems are stupidly planning to primary, to drive him out.
Not sure if they thought this far ahead, but this is a bonus for the Trump team. The Vanity Fair crowd is giong to think what they think, but for everyone else it makes them look utterly atrocious, petty, and wildly unprofessional. Give a point to the Trump Administration for this one (if they were actually laying a trap).
Yeah, I'm not at all sure that this was planned but I think it will end up being a net positive.
I subscribed to Vanity Fair for years. At some point I vaguely realized it had changed and stopped subscribing. But since I like reading magazines, I checked back a few times hoping to like it again. Each time it had gotten worse!
Didn’t know Vanity Fair was still in print
Thank you Sasha. I haven’t bothered to follow any of this online, so now I know. What rubbish. I used to enjoy VF but I haven’t read it in years. Same with Vogue, which used to be great. I still have my original copy of Vogue with Melania Trump on the cover in her wedding dress. I knew I should keep it all those years ago, and I’m glad that I did. It has a very nice editorial inside too.
Thank you Sasha. These media outlets believe that they are more relevant than what they actually are: a display of their own mediocrity.
I think one of our dear Sasha's podcasts is worth more than a 10 year subscription to Vanity Fair. Her ability to put together video and text and Tik-Tok and blend it all into a seamless and compelling narrative is outstanding and very entertaining. She's a genius. And we love her.
Sasha, great piece. You totally nailed it. Your missives are like love letters to America. Always a joy to hear what you have to say.
Nothing hates success more than failure…
I guess Georgia will be returned to the redneck rube state column now that it's been revealed in court that 315,000 Fulton County absentee ballots were run through the counting machines twice in 2020. Even that level of cheating only got an 11k win for Biden.
Vanity Fair will last as long as the employees there are sufficiently lickspittle to whomever is covering the red ink. There is always the danger that their Mackenzie Scott, whoever it is, may become bored.
Meanwhile us rubes just keep ticking along. Alabama doesn't need Neil Young, to borrow the lyric. Neither does a majority of America. Nor does it need VF or NYT.
I actually think I would lean-in to some of these photos. I really like one of Rubio
These look like real people.
They look like people you see in your city or town.
They look like they're under pressure.
They look like they're imperfect.
They look human.
I don't think this as big a win for the left as you might think.
People are tired of voting for politicians who look polished and fake. I mean Trump, even if you love him, he's got a wacky look. People don't care, actually they like it, because it's the real him