The Trump family were once mainstays on the Met Gala’s invitee list. Donald and his wife Melania attended the New York Gala many times, rubbing shoulders with models, editors, and designers.
However, the former president has been banned from the event for a number of years.
US Vogue editor and chair of the Met Gala Anna Wintour made the revelation in a game of “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” with James Corden.
He asked the editor who would not be invited back to the Met Gala in October 2017.
Rather than eat pickled pigs feet, the editor quickly replied “Donald Trump”.
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Donald Trump, who became president in January 2017, attended the famous event as far back as the 1980s with his then-wife the late Ivana Trump.
He took his third wife Melania Trump with him from 2004 onwards, the year before they wed.
Trump is not the only celeb to be banned from the event. Tim Gunn, a fashion pundit, was banned for claiming he saw Anna Wintour being carried down two flights of stairs by bodyguards.
The last time Trump attended with Melania was in 2012. The former model wore a sparkling white dress with dramatic shoulders and a sky-high hem.
In 2011 she attended the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” Met Gala, wearing a golden down covered in crystals. In 2010 Melania opted for a dramatic navy ball gown.
In 2004 Trump attended with his future wife and his daughter Ivanka. Melania wore a dramatic black ballgown with cutout details, while Ivanka wore an apricot silk number.
It’s not clear why Anna Wintour decided to ban Trump from the Met Gala. It could have been his political views.
It could have been, as was claimed in a book, the reported incident in which Melania is claimed to have “ignored” Wintour when she visited Trump Tower.
In her 2016 book Anna: The Biography by journalist Amy Odell, ut was claimed Melania was “offended” that Wintur did not inform her that she would be visiting and so Melania “didn’t even say hello.”
Anna had previously featured Melania on the cover of Vogue magazine in her wedding dress when she married Trump in 2005.
Odell wrote: “Melania didn’t understand that she had been invited to Anna’s events not because she was a friend, but simply because she had appeared on the February 2005 cover of Vogue.”
