Graydon Carter and Anna Wintour will meet with Donald Trump this week. | Getty Trump to meet with rival Graydon Carter on Friday The president-elect will sit down in New York with the Vanity Fair editor, who famously called him a 'short-fingered vulgarian.'

President-elect Donald Trump will have a sit-down meeting Friday morning at Condé Nast offices with his longtime nemesis Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who kicked off a decades-long rivalry with the real estate mogul when he dubbed him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine in 1988.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who had her own dust-up with Trump before she apologized last year, will also be present at the meeting, as will all of the top editors and digital directors at Condé Nast publications.


The off-the-record meeting, which was confirmed by Trump and Condé Nast sources, is due to take place at the publisher’s One World Trade Center offices at 10 a.m.

Spokespeople for the Trump transition team and Condé Nast declined to comment.

Carter, who has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992, has maintained his obsession with Trump’s finger size over the decades, and has continued to draw the ire of Trump.

Vanity Fair published a "historical analysis" of the “origin story” of the finger-related moniker in March 2016 that featured an NPR interview with Carter and his Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen.

Trump, for his part, has been relentless in taking potshots at Carter from his Twitter account. When Carter was still editor of Spy magazine, Trump predicted that the magazine would fail and rejoiced when it closed in 1998.

Since 2012, he has been predicting that Vanity Fair would fold under Carter's leadership. "Dummy Graydon Carter doesn't like me too much...great news. He is a real loser! @VanityFair," Trump tweeted in 2012.

"If Graydon Carter's very dumb bosses would fire him for his terrible circulation numbers at failing Vanity Fair-his bad food restaurants die," he said around the same time.

Carter wrote in Vanity Fair in 2015 that he still receives letters from Trump debating the length of his fingers.

"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine," he wrote in Vanity Fair's October 2015 issue. "On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers."

Carter notably attended Trump's second wedding to actress Marla Maples. He claims he was invited to two of Trump's three weddings.

As a way to insult Trump, Carter featured one of Trump's critical tweets about Vanity Fair under a photograph of comedian Amy Schumer's armpit.

Most recently, Carter offended Trump in December when Vanity Fair called his restaurant in the 5th Avenue Trump Tower "the worst restaurant in America."

Trump shot back on Twitter at the famous editor, saying, "Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!"

Trump was invited during the campaign to meet with all of the editorial leadership at the off-the-record meeting. Hillary Clinton had her own meeting with editors during the election season.

Wintour, a longtime Democratic donor and supporter of Clinton who was vying for an ambassadorship under President Barack Obama, visited Trump Tower last month for a meeting with Trump. In 2012, Trump said in a tweet that he was "happy to hear" that Obama was considering Wintour for an ambassadorship position.

Wintour famously reportedly ranted on a subway train about Trump’s foundation and his desire to use the presidency to enrich himself. She later apologized, saying: “I hope that President-elect Trump will be a successful president for us all."

Condé Nast publications include Allure, Glamour, Architectural Digest, GolfDigest, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ Style, Wired, Self, Brides, bon appetit, The New Yorker and Teen Vogue.