There’s a saying when politicians spend any time with the press — “nothing is ever off the record.” Perhaps that lesson never reached some in the Donald Trump administration when they agreed to what may be their first (and perhaps last) glossy magazine profile, where Vice President JD Vance had a mask-slipping moment and revealed just how much these colleagues don’t like each other.
Most of the chatter online has focused on the White House chief of staff’s disparaging comments about people in the inner circle of the Trump administration. But there’s a seldom-discussed aspect of the story that centers solely on the pictures — and considering we already know how critical, and somewhat vain, Trump has always been about which photos a publication chooses to run of him, it turns out the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
