The irony of a Breitbart editor seeming to crave a trigger warning for a magazine cover didn’t go unnoticed. Some people cheekily asked if he needed a safe space. Others just wanted clarity about whether or not he was joking.

“Just a thought, but maybe if you’re triggered by the Statue of Liberty the United States of America is not the right place for you,” one response read.

Another person asked: “Just to be clear here — the Statue of Liberty is now a microaggression against conservatives?”

In response to the backlash, Mr. Carney posted on Twitter, “The reaction by leftists to my criticism of Vogue’s cover is all the proof you need about its political content.” In a subsequent post, he wrote, “If you want the Statue of Liberty to be a non-partisan symbol of America, don’t make her central to your case against immigration reform.”