“She should have been on the cover years ago – Jesse Watters and Brian Kilmeade ERUPT over Vogue staff walkout after Melania’s feature, mocking the meltdown as a complete collapse of ‘common sense’ in the fashion world”

Jesse Watters and Brian Kilmeade took direct aim at the editorial chaos after reports surfaced that staffers walked out upon learning Melania Trump would grace the cover of Vogue. Their fiery exchange lit up the airwaves, blasting what they called the absurdity of the reaction. With sharp mockery, they tore into the decision-makers, questioning how far bias and outrage had crept into the fashion elite. Their words left many stunned – is the fashion world truly collapsing under its own double standards, or was this a one-off meltdown that exposed deeper cracks in the industry’s core? The clash not only rattled media circles but also reignited a larger debate over cultural hypocrisy and selective outrage that refuses to die down.

The full story uncovers every tense moment of the tirade, the explosive reactions behind closed doors, and the shocking fallout. Don’t miss the details that have everyone talking.

Jesse Watters and Brian Kilmeade went back and forth Wednesday about the appearances of presidential spouses, with Kilmeade ultimately declaring Melania Trump the “most attractive first lady ever.”

On The Five, the two co-hosts discussed the merits of an idea floated by Mark Guiducci, the new editor of Vanity Fair: having Melania on the cover of the publication. That notion reportedly received a hostile welcome in-house, with a “mid-level editor” telling the Daily Mail that they and half their staff would walk.

After Kilmeade led off the segment by agreeing with Guiducci’s proposal in the name of “maximizing the viewership,” Watters began to explain why he was in the same boat.

“Was Jill [Biden] on the cover?” Watters asked. “Was Michelle Obama on the cover?”

Brian Kilmeade dubbed Melania ‘the most attractive first lady ever.’Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS

Kilmeade informed him that Jill appeared on the cover of sister publication Vogue twice, and Michelle three times. (Hillary Clinton did so once, too.)

“Okay. Do you think those two women are prettier than Melania Trump?” he asked. Kilmeade declined to answer.

But Watters soon got a response out of him.

“No, do you think they’re prettier?” Watters pushed. “Is it not about pretty? Is it about fashion? Because Melania’s also more fashionable.”

Obama appeared on Vogue’s cover in 2009, 2013 and 2016. Biden did so in 2021 and 2024.POOL New/REUTERS

“Right,” Kilmeade agreed. “She’s the most attractive first lady ever, let’s be honest.”

Melania last appeared on the cover of Vogue in 2005. In December, she told Kilmeade on Fox and Friends that she wasn’t concerned with being on any more covers, saying there are “so many other important things to do.”

Later on The Five, co-host Harold Ford Jr., a Democrat, said he wouldn’t mind seeing Trump on the cover of Vanity Fair if she revealed in an interview more about the letter she had written to Russian President Vladimir Putin that her husband hand-delivered during the Russia-U.S. summit in Alaska earlier this month.

“I just want to know: do she and her husband see on this thing eye to eye? What more would she be doing?” Ford said.

“This is a very serious woman who is working on AI, who is working on mental health issues, who is now working on children’s issues. Whether you agree with her husband or not, I’d love to hear that or read about that. That’s why I want to see it.”