Glam MAGA partygoer’s identity revealed after controversial magazine cover
The identity of a dazzling Trump supporter featured on a controversial cover of New York Magazine has been revealed.
The dazzling partygoer on the cover of the ridiculed New York Magazine issue, taken at a pro-Trump party on the eve of the inauguration, has been identified as a sorority bigwig often referred to as “Madam President.”
Anna Claire Howland, 21, a junior at Southern Methodist University who was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was prominently featured on the magazine’s cover story last week, which was titled “The Cruel Kids’ Table.”
Howland quickly gained notoriety for her stunning beauty, radiant smile, and elegance — despite the headline — while critics slammed the magazine for allegedly cropping black people at the Trump inauguration party in Washington, DC.
Howland — a native of Mountian Brook, Alabama — majors in psychology and minors in business at SMU and has aspirations of attending law school after graduation, her sorority said in an Instagram post last year.
Howland has served as chapter president for the Gamma Phi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at SMU since January 2024, according to her LinkedIn.
She called the title “both an honour and a privilege” and said she “lead and represent 243 collegiate women and manage an executive board of 24 members.”
The glamorous sorority sister said she enjoys trying new restaurants, reading, crocheting, going on walks with her friends, and cooking in her free time, according to a post by her sorority chapter.
‘Kappa has transformed my entire college experience, and I know it will only continue to positively impact my life in the years to come,’” she told the chapter.
“‘This chapter gave me a group of girls who I share values and countless memories with, which is irreplaceable. I’m proud and so so grateful to be sisters with girls who are this loving, supportive, and bold!’”
Comments on the post praised her as “perfect” and “the best ever” as one user even referred to the 21-year-old as “MADAM PRESIDENT.”
Her family’s breathtaking 6,800-square-foot mansion was prominently showcased in Birmingham Home & Garden, celebrated for its captivating “dominant arcades and striking limestone exterior” that create an unforgettable impression of sophistication and elegance.
Her mother, Mary Beth, and real estate developer father, Rob Howland, purchased the mansion in 2015.
Her sister, Mary Louise Howland, was also at the event and appears alongside her on the cover.
Howland gained much attention across X when Barstool’s Jack Mac shared the New York Magazine cover, writing, “Bottom left is my Roman Empire.”
“Gonna sound like a simp but the most fascinating part of her to me is she is legit beautiful,” one user wrote.
“Yep,” Jack Mac replied.
“Do we know who that is? I’m interest in sliding in her DMs and getting left on delivered,” another user jokingly wrote.
“God is good,” another chimed in.
Why the magazine cover created such controversy
Howland has yet to comment on taking the internet by storm after being featured on the cover of New York Magazine.
The cover image shows a room full of white revellers at a TikTok-sponsored party called the “Power 30 Awards” on the eve of the inauguration in DC.
The article, penned by Brock Colyar, claims that “almost everyone” at the Trump inauguration party was “white” and failed to mention that the party’s host was black.
However, conservative commentator Christopher Barnard on X posted the full photo, which accompanied the story inside the magazine and revealed a number of black attendees that were cropped out of the cover.
“Almost everyone is white,” Colyar wrote, followed by a descriptive flourish about the shindig. “The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces. The women are almost all out of their league.”
“This is insane,” GOP Youth Advisory Council co-chair CJ Pearson shot back on X Monday. “I hosted this event and @NYMag intentionally left me out of their story because it would have undermined their narrative that MAGA is some racist cult.”
Pearson, who hosted the event and is black, pointed out that other black Republicans were also there, and posted a photo of him with another black attendee.
He added: “.@NYMag accused me of hosting a white-only inauguration rager. I guess none of these black people got the memo?”
Other black attendees included former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, rapper Waka Flocka Flame and PragerU’s Xaviaer DuRousseau, among others.
Rob Smith, a black political commentator and consultant at Right Turn Strategies, chimed in: “I was at this party as were MANY other Conservative media influencers who are Black, Latino, Asian, etc.”
Smith continued: “@NYMag used a whites only photo to push the media narrative that diverse Republicans don’t exist and weren’t welcome. You don’t hate the media enough.”
Although the New York Magazine piece did quote DuRousseau, it didn’t declare his race, and only described him as a “28-year-old conservative influencer.”
Later in the story, Colyar goes to the All American Inaugural Ball, and describes it as a “more familiar scene of MAGA commoners.”
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Colyar interviews an “older woman in an updo and a silver sequined gown,” who asks the journalist: “Have you noticed the entire room is white?”’”
A New York Magazine spokesperson told The Post: “The magazine’s most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives taking Washington by storm, through the lens of inauguration weekend. The cover was cropped to the centre of a picture that was published in full online, and we believe both the cover and story provide an accurate impression of the weekend.”
This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission
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