“I find her to be the Jackie Kennedy of her time – the beauty, the elegance, the soft-spokenness. I think she'll deliver a powerful message to the American people,” Navarro told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, referring to the first lady, who is set to speak at the RNC later in the evening.

The comparison sent heads exploding on Twitter, where critics of the president vehemently objected to any likeness between the two first ladies.

“[Navarro] should be arrested for making such a horrific and untrue comparison,”wrote one outraged commenter.