On Wednesday, Vanity Fair published an unflattering review of NYC's Trump Grill(e) restaurant (yes, it's spelled both ways on signage), Donald Trump got wind of it, and … you probably know where this is going to end up. To be fair, the review of the steakhouse in Trump Tower was pretty brutal: Critic Tina Nguyen describes a waiter "determined to gaslight us into thinking we were having a good time," points out the "French-ish paintings that look as though they were bought from Home Goods," and, when it comes to the overall culinary experience, notes it "could be the worst restaurant in America." Fast-forward to Thursday's Twitter feed, where Trump fought back with a defiant post that didn't exactly address the points made in the review, but did take issue with Vanity Fair, and editor Graydon Carter, in general.
"Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @Vanity Fair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!" the president-elect tweeted. Politico notes Trump and Carter have had a long-standing battle dating back to when Carter mentioned decades ago that Trump had tiny hands (his exa ct words in Spy magazine: Trump was a "short-fingered vulgarian"). Colin Campbell, a Yahoo politics editor, notes Trump has also had a longtime habit of tweeting that Vanity Fair is failing, tweeting about five minutes after Trump's Thursday tweet that "for more than four years, Donald Trump has been tweeting about Vanity Fair supposedly dying." Politico throws VF onto the pile of other media Trump has rampaged against, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.
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One of Donald Trump's latest targets on Twitter appears to share his belief that there's no such thing as bad publicity. The Week reports that after Trump slammed Vanity Fair as "dead" following its terrible review of the Trump Tower steakhouse, the magazine "totally owned" the attack by adopting a new tagline: "The Magazine Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to Read." The magazine's Twitter feed was also updated with links to many of its more scathing Trump articles, including an illustrated history of his hair and a piece comparing his mansions to Saddam Hussein's palaces.
The feud between Trump and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter goes back many years, with Carter describing Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" back in 1988, when Carter was an editor of Spy magazine, CNN reports. "I can't wait for Vanity Fair to fold which, under Graydon Carter, will be sooner rather than later," Trump tweeted in 2012. Politico notes that CNN, along with the New York Times, NBC, and many others have also been frequent Trump targets, though none of them have adopted Vanity Fair's policy of bragging about it yet.
"Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @Vanity Fair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!" the president-elect tweeted. Politico notes Trump and Carter have had a long-standing battle dating back to when Carter mentioned decades ago that Trump had tiny hands (his exa ct words in Spy magazine: Trump was a "short-fingered vulgarian"). Colin Campbell, a Yahoo politics editor, notes Trump has also had a longtime habit of tweeting that Vanity Fair is failing, tweeting about five minutes after Trump's Thursday tweet that "for more than four years, Donald Trump has been tweeting about Vanity Fair supposedly dying." Politico throws VF onto the pile of other media Trump has rampaged against, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.
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One of Donald Trump's latest targets on Twitter appears to share his belief that there's no such thing as bad publicity. The Week reports that after Trump slammed Vanity Fair as "dead" following its terrible review of the Trump Tower steakhouse, the magazine "totally owned" the attack by adopting a new tagline: "The Magazine Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to Read." The magazine's Twitter feed was also updated with links to many of its more scathing Trump articles, including an illustrated history of his hair and a piece comparing his mansions to Saddam Hussein's palaces.
The feud between Trump and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter goes back many years, with Carter describing Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" back in 1988, when Carter was an editor of Spy magazine, CNN reports. "I can't wait for Vanity Fair to fold which, under Graydon Carter, will be sooner rather than later," Trump tweeted in 2012. Politico notes that CNN, along with the New York Times, NBC, and many others have also been frequent Trump targets, though none of them have adopted Vanity Fair's policy of bragging about it yet.
