{"id":107611,"date":"2025-05-17T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107611\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:03:09","slug":"melania-trumps-bronze-statue-mysteriously-vanishes-in-slovenian-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107611\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump’s bronze statue ‘mysteriously’ vanishes in Slovenian hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melania<\/p>\n

Melania Trump’s bronze statue ‘mysteriously’ vanishes in Slovenian hometown\u00a0<\/p>\n

A statue of Melania Trump, placed in her hometown in Slovenia in 2020 has disappeared shortly after she returned to live at the White House.<\/p>\n

The only parts left of the large bronze statue are its feet and the two-meter-high tree stump that the feet were attached to.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time a statue of Melania in her hometown Sevnica has been damaged, as per BBC.<\/p>\n

\"Melania<\/p>\n

The first statue made from one piece of wood by a local artist named Ales “Maxi” Zupevc in July 2019, lasted one year before someone unknown burned it in a bonfire.<\/p>\n

Brad Downey, the American artist who originally commissioned the wooden statue of Melania, had made a bronze copy of it to make it stronger and harder to damage. <\/p>\n

This bronze statue was placed in the same location but despite being made from durable material, someone cut off the statue at the ankles and stole it.<\/p>\n

\"Melania<\/p>\n

Artist hints at political motives behind disappearance:<\/p>\n

As per the outlet, the local police are considering this disappearance a theft and have begun investigating the case.<\/p>\n

The artist believe that statue’s disappearance “has something to do with Trump getting re-elected.”<\/p>\n

Local authorities in Sevnica said damaging property is wrong, but they also expressed that no one in their town felt proud of the statue of the US First Lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melania Trump’s bronze statue ‘mysteriously’ vanishes in Slovenian hometown\u00a0 A statue of Melania Trump, placed in her hometown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,49141,1757,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-melania","13":"tag-trump","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114520247898064509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}