Statue mocking Donald Trump torched in Slovenia
Wooden statue mocking Donald Trump is burned to the ground by arsonist in Melania’s native Slovenia
- A 26-foot high wooden statue of President Trump erected in a Slovenian village
- Structure in the First Lady’s home country showed Trump with his trademark hair
- But the unpopular statue was burned down by an arsonist, according to police
- Life-size wooden statue also unveiled last year of Melania Trump in hometown
A wooden statue mocking President Donald Trump in the home country of his wife Melania was burned to the ground today.
The nearly 26-foot high construction, erected last year in the village of Sela pri Kamniku in Slovenia, showed Trump with his trademark hair style, blue suit, white shirt and a long red tie.
His right arm – fist clenched – was raised high like that of New York’s Statue of Liberty.
When triggered, a mechanism inside the statue opened a red-painted mouth and shark-like teeth used to appear.
Slovenian police are looking for the arsonist, authorities confirmed today.
The statue (right) mocking President Donald Trump that was constructed last year, has been destroyed by fire in the homeland of his wife, Melania Trump and (left) firefighters battling to extinguish the blaze
The wooden statue resembling Donald Trump near Kamnik, Slovenia. The wooden statue nearly 26 feet of President Trump that was constructed in 2019 but was destroyed by fire today
Although the construction quickly became a tourist attraction, some local villagers were unhappy with its appearance, pledging to torch it by Halloween.
As a result it had to be moved to another village, near Kamnik, in the area, around 50 miles from Melania Trump’s home town of Sevnica.
Tomaz Schlegl, the statue’s creator, said when he unveiled the piece last August: ‘Like all populists, the statue has two faces. One is humane and nice, the other is that of a vampire.’
Milan Balazic, the mayor of Moravce where the statue ended up, said that unknown arsonists burned it.
He said the torching of the statue ‘is symbol of intolerance toward artistic projects in our society’.
Suspected vandals burned the wooden statue of Donald Trump, which was built last year by a group of villagers to criticise populist politics
It’s not the first time in Slovenia that a member of the Trump family has been carved in wood.
A life-size sculpture of the US first lady cut from the trunk of a linden tree was unveiled in Rozno near her hometown, Sevnica, last June, drawing mixed reactions from residents.
The first lady, born Melanija Knavs, changed her name to Melania Knauss when she started modelling. She settled in New York in 1996 and met Trump two years later.
There are mixed feelings about Melania in Slovenia where hopes were high that she would promote her picturesque Alpine home country after Trump took office.
But she has rarely mentioned Slovenia in her public appearances, and has not visited the small central European country since Trump’s inauguration.
A life-sized wooden sculpture of First Lady Melania Trump being officially unveiled in Rozno, near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, in July last year
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