Critics slammed New York magazine for cropping black people out of a photo of a pro-Trump party it ran on its cover this week — with the story inside claiming that the crowd was almost entirely white.
The magazine’s cover story this week, called “The Cruel Kid’s Table” penned by Brock Colyar, claims that “almost everyone” at the Trump inauguration party was “white” and failed to mention that party’s host was black.
The cover image shows a room full of white revelers at a TikTok sponsored party called the “Power 30 Awards” on the eve of inauguration, but conservative commentator Christopher Barnard on X posted the full photo which accompanied the story inside the magazine and revealed a number of black attendees.
“Almost everyone is white,” Colyar wrote, followed by a descriptive flourish about the shindig. “The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces. The women are almost all out of their league.”
“This is insane,” GOP Youth Advisory Council co-chair CJ Pearson shot back on X Monday. “I hosted this event and @NYMag intentionally left me out of their story because it would have undermined their narrative that MAGA is some racist cult.”
Pearson, who hosted the event and is black, pointed out that other black Republicans were also there, and posted a photo of him with another black attendee.
He added: “.@NYMag accused me of hosting a white-only inauguration rager. I guess none of these black people got the memo?”
Other black attendees included former Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones, rapper Waka Flocka Flame and PragerU’s Xaviaer DuRousseau, among others.
Rob Smith, a black political commentator and consultant at Right Turn Strategies, chimed in: “I was at this party as were MANY other Conservative media influencers who are Black, Latino, Asian, etc.”
Smith continued: “@NYMag used a whites only photo to push the media narrative that diverse Republicans don’t exist and weren’t welcome. You don’t hate the media enough.”
Although the New York magazine piece did quote DuRousseau, it didn’t declare his race, and only described him as a “28-year-old conservative influencer.”
Later in the story, Colyar goes to the All American Inaugural Ball, and describes it as a “more familiar scene of MAGA commoners.”
Colyar interviews an “older woman in an updo and a silver sequined gown,” who asks the journalist: “Have you noticed the entire room is white?”’”
A New York magazine spokesperson told The Post: “The magazine’s most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives taking Washington by storm, through the lens of inauguration weekend. The cover was cropped to the center of a picture that was published in full online, and we believe both the cover and story provide an accurate impression of the weekend.”
