Despite fear about dire economic consequences from tensions between her husband and Mexico, the country’s edition of Vanity Fair featured First Lady Melania Trump chowing down on jewels.
Many Mexican social media users lambasted the decision to put the smiling former supermodel on the cover, which labeled her the “new Jackie Kennedy.”
President Trump has previous vilified Mexicans as “rapists” and recently signed an executive action to build a wall along the southern U.S. border possibly paid for by a 20% tariff on Mexican imports.
However, it may be wise not to judge the magazine’s decision by its cover.
In a statement on Friday, the magazine said that it understands that its cover comes at a “complicated moment,” but that it is only trying to provide “an independent and critical point of view of the present and the characters that star in it.”
Flawless… bellisimo, mucho Bonita