Politics & Government
Donald Trump Meeting With Conde Nast Brass At NYC HQ
The president-elect will pow-wow with some of the company's top leaders Friday morning.
MANHATTAN, NY — President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to meet Friday morning with some of the top editors and leaders at Conde Nast at the company's 1 World Trade Center headquarters.
Pool reporters following Trump spotted him in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning. A heavy police presence was reported in the area. He was spotted leaving about an hour later.
NEWS ALERT: President-elect @realDonaldTrump leaves meeting at @CondeNast. pic.twitter.com/4YfksPQ4Xs
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 6, 2017
The pow-wow with the media company was off-the-record, unlike his meeting with The New York Times shortly after the election.
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Trump has shown a particular disdain for Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who was expected to attend Friday's meeting. Their feud goes back decades after Carter called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine in 1988, an insult that has stuck with the president-elect since.
Last month, after the magazine wrote a scathing review of Trump Grill, Trump blasted Vanity Fair on Twitter, calling it "way down," "big trouble" and "dead." He said Carter has "no talent."
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The magazine saw record subscriptions after the president-elect's comments.
Carter kept his lips sealed about the contents of the meeting:
Graydon Carter keeping his lips sealed about today’s Trump meeting at Conde Nast. “It was off the record, and I will abide by that.” Sigh!
— Joe Pompeo (@joepompeo) January 6, 2017
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was also expected to be in attendance at the meeting.
Anna Wintour came to my office at Trump Tower to ask me to meet with the editors of Conde Nast & Steven Newhouse, a friend. Will go this AM.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
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