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Statue of Melania Trump set on fire in Slovenia | TheHill

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  4 years ago  •  12 comments

By:   Rebecca Klar (TheHill)

Statue of Melania Trump set on fire in Slovenia | TheHill
A wooden sculpture of first lady Melania Trump near her hometown in Slovenia was set on fire the night of July 4, according to the artist who commissioned the piece.

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A wooden sculpture of first lady Melania Trump near her hometown in Slovenia was set on fire the night of July 4, according to the artist who commissioned the piece.

Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, told Reuters the wooden sculpture near Trump's hometown of Sevnica was torched.

"I want to know why they did it," Downey told Reuters.

He told the newswire the sculpture was removed as soon as police informed him on July 5 of the incident.

Downey reportedly said he filed a police report and that he would like to interview the people behind the incident, if they're found, for a film he is preparing ahead of his exhibition that is set to open in September.

Police spokeswoman Alenka Drenik told Reuters the police can't reveal details since the investigation into the case is ongoing.

The wooden statue was unveiled in Slovenia last year. It depicts Trump in the blue outfit she wore to her husband's inauguration in 2017, raising her left hand as if to wave. It became the butt of some jokes last year after it was revealed, but Downey defended the artwork at the time.

"People might laugh at the aesthetics of the monument, but the context plays a very important role," Downey told The Washington Post at the time. "This is not the random positioning of a monument. People may laugh, but the context still resonates."

The statue's burning comes as President Trumphas taken a tough stance on people destroying and toppling statues across the U.S. During a Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore, he announced an executive order to create a "National Garden of American Heroes."

Statues, often of Confederate figures and white supremacists, have been targeted amid nationwide protests over police brutality and racial inequality sparked by the death of George Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes at the end of May. Activists have renewed calls for monuments honoring such figures to be removed, and in many cases officials have removed or slated statues for removal.


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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    4 years ago

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @1    4 years ago

From the looks of it before it was burned, I think Donald Trump paid someone to set it on fire. 

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.1.1  Tacos!  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1    4 years ago

If so, he deserves credit for doing a nice thing for his wife.

 
 
 
JBB
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3  JBB    4 years ago

A statue of Melania? HAHAHAHA! Why? Just why...

 
 
 
Tacos!
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4  Tacos!    4 years ago

I know art is in the eye of the beholder or something, but that's terrible.

People may laugh, but the context still resonates.

The only thing resonating to me is that this guy is an unskilled artist. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5  Buzz of the Orient    4 years ago

But shouldn't a statue of Melania be more like the way the people of Slovenia knew her, so why is it clothed?

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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6  Trout Giggles    4 years ago

It's not a very good likeness...unless he was going for the "inner beauty"

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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7  Paula Bartholomew    4 years ago

Burning it only improved its look.  That thing was simply butt ugly.

 
 
 
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8  Account Deleted    4 years ago

See it's really not that big a deal, Slovenian Druids just postponed their Summer Solstice party a couple of weeks because of Covid-19 restrictions.

They were all out gathering wood to build their Wicker Man to burn when what did they see ...

Nothing political - just a little "ole time religion".

 
 
 
Raven Wing
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8.1  Raven Wing  replied to  Account Deleted @8    4 years ago
Nothing political - just a little "ole time religion".

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