July 9, 2020

"A quirky wooden sculpture of US First Lady Melania Trump is reported to have been set on fire near her hometown in Slovenia, prompting its removal."

"... The sculpture of Mrs Trump, which could be described as only bearing a crude likeness to the US first lady, was carved out of a tree trunk on the outskirts of Sevnica, her hometown in central Slovenia. The statue, which depicts Mrs Trump dressed in a blue coat similar to one she wore to her husband's inauguration and with a club-like hand gesturing to the sky, received mixed reviews when it was erected in July 2019. Some residents branded the statue a "disgrace", complaining it looked more like the Smurfs character Smurfette than the first lady.... Since Mr Trump was elected US president in 2016, Sevnica has become a tourist magnet, as visitors search for an insight into Mrs Trump's early years Residents have brought out ranges of Melania-branded merchandise, including slippers, cakes, and Trump-like burgers with fly-away cheese 'hair.'"

BBC reports.

As a statue of Melania, the Sevnica artwork was kind of like the notorious "scary Lucy" statue. It's just really hard to understand why the artist would depict the person that way. As for why someone would set it on fire, presumably it's politics, but it could be aesthetics.

And I just want to repeat the phrase "Trump-like burgers with fly-away cheese 'hair.'" Something delightful about that. "Fly-away cheese" alone would have intrigued me.

8 comments:

rehajm said...

Yet another data point this trendy statue wrecking isn't a spontaneous uprising from Americans but a Euro funded and coordinated political ploy...

Darrell said...

With Lefty artists it's always political--even when you're doing a home-town girl.
But I assure you, the statues of George Soros and Hillary Clinton that I install in latrines are perfect likenesses, respectfully done.

Sean Gleeson said...

I needed to see this flyaway cheeseburger myself, so I found a photo of one at the bottom of this article.

Howard said...

I blame spontaneous combustion since she is hotness personified.

mikee said...

Darrell, are the mouths open on the statues? I ask because I hope so.

Otto said...

She still is the most beautiful FLOTUS.

rcocean said...

So it probably wasn't set afire by someone who hated her, but by someone who liked her. Some artists are stuck on the weird and ugly. Or just have bad taste.

Sam L. said...

Vitchs!!!!! Burning Melania in effigy!!