Anna Wintour: Vogue editor endorses Joe Biden and blasts Trump’s response to coronavirus

Vogue editor-in-chief ‘appalled’ by US president’s handling of the pandemic

Anna Wintour on 24 November 2019 in London. (Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images)

Anna Wintour has endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election – while blasting Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Vogue editor-in-chief made her views known in an article shared on Monday on the magazine’s website.

“Like everyone else, I have been experiencing this Covid-19 crisis as a series of hurtling developments, where one never knows quite what each new day will bring,” she wrote.

“Through it all one fact, however, remains stubbornly unchanged: President Trump.”

Wintour added that “I, like so many of us, have been appalled” by Trump’s management of the pandemic.

“These weeks have been a reminder—as if we needed a reminder—that America must choose a new president.

And it is my belief that we should choose Vice President Joe Biden.”

She praised the vice-president for being ”a man of character and has so many qualities that we are in desperately short supply of in Washington right now: decency, honor, compassion, trustworthiness, and best of all experience”.

Back in 2016, Wintour supported Hillary Clinton. In 2012, she once again stuck to the Democrat candidate, raising funds for Barack Obama.

In the same article, Wintour announced that the 2020 Met Gala – of which she is the chair – has been postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing pandemic.