Melania Trump appears to be EATING jewels like pasta in the most awkward Vanity Fair cover ever… and people are taking the mick
LIKE the American working classes her billionaire businessman husband continues to proclaim himself the champion of, Melania Trump has shown she too understands the struggle to put food on the table.
Especially when that “food” is a bowl of eye-wateringly expensive diamonds.
The newly-installed First Lady has appeared on the cover of Mexican Vanity Fair posing with the multi-million pound dinner, twirling a string of jewels the way common folk would eat a bowl of spaghetti.
Melania Trump, 46, is dressed in a V-neck sleeveless white dress, which has ivory stones embroidered near the collar, multiple platinum bangles and enormous jewelled rings.
Her brunette hair is blow dried to the side and her smoky eye make-up and nude lip colour is immaculate.
But in a case of unfortunate timing, the edition hit newsstands on the day her partner Donald Trump said his controversial border wall between Mexico and the US would be paid for by Mexicans.
He also floated the idea of paying for it by charging a 20 per cent tax on Mexican imports, a move that would result in a dramatic escalation in poverty among the country’s working class.
Soon after, the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, cancelled his first scheduled meeting with Mr Trump.
“This morning we have informed the White House that I will not attend the meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with the @POTUS,” he said on Twitter.
On the day he also signed an executive order to ban Muslims from seven countries entering the US.
Social media reaction to the simulated diamond degustation, as with all things Trump-related, was swift.
One outraged Twitter user commented: “Melania’s just gonna munch on some diamonds while hubby is busy tearing our nation to pieces #letthemeatcake.”
Another shared a photograph of the glossy magazine cover next to Michelle Obama on the front of Newsweek: “Michelle: let them eat healthy food. Melania: let them eat diamonds #vanityfairmexico #resist.”
One angry user shared the shocking shot of the Syrian child pulled from the Aleppo rubble and wrote: “@realDonaldTrump You deny safety for children such as this boy while Melania eats diamonds on the cover of Vanity Fair. You are a disgrace!”
Photographs of the Trump family posing with a stuffed lion and a gold-plated pram were also posted online, with one user sarcastically commenting: “What I like about them is that they are relatable.”
The photograph used by the Conde Nast owned Vanity Fair was actually a recycled image.
It first appeared in a fellow member of the Conde Nast stable, GQ, in April 2016, a time when many thought a Donald Trump presidency impossible.
Vanity Fair deleted the tweet promoting the issue after the backlash.
The Trump family’s unabashed elitism has provided a continual supply of social media fodder, both
in the lead-up to last November’s election and post-inauguration.
Meanwhile, Number 10 has rejected calls to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK despite a petition against it gaining more than one million signatures.
A Downing Street source said it would “undo everything” after Theresa May’s talks with the US President last week.
It comes after the row over his Muslim travel ban has escalated, with protests planned across the UK for today amid growing calls to ban Mr Trump from Britain.
A petition saying it would “cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen” if he were to be welcomed here has raced to a million signatures in just 24 hours, and could now be debated by MPs in Parliament.
Theresa May initially failed to condemn the policy – which sees individuals travelling from one of seven mainly Muslim countries banned from entering the US – and has since been urged to rescind the invitation made during her visit to Washington.