To the Editor:

The votes have been counted, and recounted, and the results are in. Our next First Lady will be (again) Melania Trump. She is beautiful, she is kind, she is intelligent, multi-lingual, successful (in her own right) and she is brave. All characteristics we women admire and should, in some small part, seek for ourselves, our daughters and our sisterhood.

But what else is the lovely Mrs. Trump? As of November 2016, she is canceled. Throughout the entire first Trump presidency, she was featured on the cover of one magazine once, and it wasn’t American – – it was Italian.

Let’s run through the numbers. At last count, the dwindling US circulation numbers for the print editions of Cosmopolitan were 940,514. Women’s World 800,848. Conde Nast 723,298. Town and Country 449,569. Vogue 1,250,845. Vanity Fair 1,239,473. Elle 1,036,617. In the UK, the numbers per periodical don’t get above 300,000.

You get the point, right?

If even half of the 74 million people who voted for Donald Trump are women, I imagine that putting his beautiful, kind, intelligent multi-lingual, successful and brave wife on the cover of their magazines might sell a few issues. The continued dismissal of her popularity with and appeal to the many smart and strong (sorry, Mark Cuban) women in the United States and beyond is nothing short of a breach of the fiduciary duty those magazines have to their ultimate shareholders. The object is, after all, to sell magazines.

Trust me, if she is on the cover, we’ll buy the magazine. If the article that is included is without undeserved criticism and ire, we may even subscribe. And I bet that even some of those brooding Democrat women secretly wish for a peek inside of the life of the lovely Melania Trump.

Catherine Ledyard

Thomasville, GA