Overview
- Vanity Fair published Christopher Anderson's extreme close-ups of senior White House aides alongside a reported feature on Trump's inner circle.
- The close-up of press secretary Karoline Leavitt drew heavy social-media attention, with users speculating about visible injection marks and reacting to unretouched skin details.
- Anderson told the Washington Post he used no Photoshop and aimed to show exactly what he saw rather than flatter his subjects.
- The package accompanied interviews in which Susie Wiles criticized the president and described Vice President JD Vance as a conspiracy theorist for years.
- Political opponents repurposed the images, with California Governor Gavin Newsom posting a mocking collage on X.