He’s attended the gala in the past and once even proposed on the way there. This year, sadly, Donald Trump was not welcome at the Met Gala – and reportedly hasn’t been for a long time.Each year on the first Monday in May, the biggest names in fashion and Hollywood gather on the Met Gala red carpet in New York City. Yet despite the event laying claim to being one of the most prestigious of its kind in the world, one of the most famous individuals on the planet was missing from this year’s guest list: President Donald Trump.
One doesn’t have to look very far at all to find out just why Trump wasn’t welcome. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who has chaired or co-chaired the Met Gala every year since 1997, outlined a few years ago that the two-time POTUS would never attend another gala. “He will never be invited again,” she told The Late Late Show with James Corden back in 2017.
