Wide-eyed gazes and blotchy skin. Plump lips and powdery make-up. Extreme close-ups of President Trump’s inner circle — including Karoline Leavitt, Susie Wiles, JD Vance and Marco Rubio — have set the internet alight since leaving the bounds of Vanity Fair and its bombshell White House tell-all yesterday.
It’s not hard to see why. The unvarnished look at some of the most powerful people in the country is an increasingly rare sight. With Leavitt, for instance, the White House press secretary is most often seen at the same even distance from the camera and, by extension, the American public.
The photographs were taken by photojournalist Christopher Anderson to accompany a major two-part story by…