If the intention was to pay homage to America's First Lady Melania Trump the week before Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto was meeting in Washington with her husband, the Mexicans are not amused.

Melania Trump's pose really doesn't channel former First Lady Jackie Kennedy. She would never pose in such a vulgar, ostentatious image for an American publication or -- worse yet -- a magazine outside of America. This is, of course, the contradiction with the self-professed working man's populist president Donald Trump, who acts like he's Louis XVI.

In terms of historical folklore, Melania Trump is more likely channeling Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution. Her alleged famous words are much more in keeping with the theme of Vanity Fair Mexico's cover: "Let them eat cake!"

This famous, disparaging quote may be akin to one of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway's alternative-facts, the ones believed by massive numbers of people and therefore true. History.com sets the record straight on the veracity of the queen's famous exclamation.

The Vanity Fair Mexico cover story is a reprint from a spring 2016 GQ story by writer Julia Ioffe. The piece received such blowback from pro-Trump forces that Ioffe was deluged with death threats. In an interview with Dujour magazine, Melania Trump explained that Julia Ioffe 'provoked' the Trump backlash, not approving of but understanding an anonymous caller who played an Adolf Hitler speech on her phone and others who shared photos of Ioffe as a Holocaust victim. in our story, two paragraphs remain chilling the day after Trump chief strategist launched a full frontal attack against the media:

Interviewed by The Guardian Ioffe said that she has experienced this kind of harassment in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Her family fled Russia when she was a child due to anti-Semitism. The writer, who is now working for Politico magazine, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine and other media sees a frightening future for a free press under a President Trump.

“What happens if Donald Trump is elected?” Ioffe said. “We’ve seen the way he bids his supporters to attack the media, his proposal to change libel laws to make it easier to sue journalists.”

We Know the Truth. He's Not Hitler

As part of her Dujour interview with Mickey Rapkin, Melania Trump was aggressive in batting down comparisons with her then presidential candidate husband with Adolf Hitler, prompted by her GQ interview: "We know the truth. He's not Hitler. He wants to help America. He wants to unite people."

The people of Mexico don't agree, as they launch a boycott against American-made products in protest against Trump's executive order to start building yet another wall on America's southern border. The administration made news yesterday, threatening to impose a 20% tariff on goods made in Mexico entering the US.

Circulating back to America's new First Lady Melania Trump, Mexican author and columnist Guadalupe Loaeza said: "It's a lack of sensitivity on the part of the publisher. I started reading this and I couldn't finish. I didn't want to know anything about the wife of our country's No 1 enemy."

The Guardian contributes great analysis about the Mexican response to Melania Trump's vulgar plate of jewels in a country where over half the people live in poverty. :

“Thank you @VanityFairMX for putting Melania Trump on the cover. Great example of sensitivity, empathy, patriotism and editorial intelligence,” tweeted Denise Dresser, a prominent public intellectual.

Mexican magazine covers frequently offer outlets of escapism, portraying the privileges, excesses and tacky tastes of celebrities and the upper crust.

“Large proportion of Mexicans are culturally programmed [by media] to worship the fair-skinned and famous,” said Andrew Paxman, a professor at the Center for Research and Teaching of Economics, who studies Mexican media.

“It plays into the escapist fantasy, perpetuated in Mexico by decades of Cinderella-style telenovelas, that a good girl of modest means can fulfill her dreams by marrying a Prince Charming.”

One of America's most famous and worldly First Ladies, Jackie Kennedy was never charged with such vulgar insensitivity. Melania Trump has a lot to learn.