People Are Pissed at Vanity Fair Mexico for Featuring Melania on Their Cover Abby Norman - Romper
go to original January 30, 2017

Just after Mexico's president canceled a meeting with President Trump, Mexico's version of Vanity Fair magazine came out with a cover featuring first lady Melania Trump. Take a look. (CBS News)

Just a week into his presidency and it seemed Trump had made an enemy of Mexico, which makes his wife's latest press more than a little awkward. Melania Trump is on the Vanity Fair Mexico cover for February, and the timing couldn't be worse.

Obviously, given the tension between Mexico and the U.S. that's been brewing since Trump starting talking about a wall while he was still campaigning, the fact that the first lady is gracing the magazine's cover just as her husband is making good on his promise is more than awkward. And the internet, of course, immediately took notice of the ill-timed publication.



Mexico's Vanity Fair article — which actually originally appeared in GQ back in April, along with the photos — adoringly refers to Melania as "the new Jackie Kennedy", a comparison that has been made frequently by the media since the inauguration. The tweet announcing the cover girl came out on the same day that Trump made his statement regarding the construction of the $20 billion wall. Twitter was awash with objection toward Trump's plans for the wall and a somewhat ironic appreciation of his wife's cover shoot.

Ok, I'm lost: why is the First Lady of a supposedly populist administration on the cover of Vanity Fair Mexico eating jewelry out of a bowl? pic.twitter.com/KULspH9IYf

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) January 27, 2017

Some have postulated that the move may have been intentional of Vanity Fair's part. Mexico certainly hasn't been in the dark about Trump's plans, nor have they been quiet about their mounting lack of respect for the Trump administration. Several Mexican journalists have pointed out that such a grandiose cover is fairly insensitive to a country with marked poverty, and certainly whose people are not exactly feeling the love toward the U.S. at the moment.

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