{"id":20052,"date":"2020-07-11T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20052"},"modified":"2020-07-11T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T18:57:18","slug":"the-cultural-marxists-are-even-attacking-american-statues-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20052","title":{"rendered":"The cultural marxists are even attacking American statues in Europe."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Melania Trump Statue Set On Fire In Slovenian Home Town<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>On America&#8217;s Independence Day and a week after\u00a0President Trump signed an executive order to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-threatens-anyone-caught-vandalizing-federal-statues-ten-years-prison\">protect<\/a>\u00a0federal monuments from\u00a0vandalism,\u00a0a life-sized sculpture of first lady Melania Trump was burned\u00a0near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=l8mjJ6Fo\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=l8mjJ6Fo\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=MZJ6PAL5 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=MZJ6PAL5 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=MZJ6PAL5 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=MZJ6PAL5 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=MZJ6PAL5 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg?itok=l8mjJ6Fo 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/melania%20statue%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"359c9aa5-6741-46ea-ba4b-ecf4cad26269\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brad Downey, an American Berlin-based artist,\u00a0told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-slovenia-melania-trump-sculpture\/u-s-first-lady-melania-trump-statue-set-on-fire-in-slovenia-idUSKBN24933K\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0police contacted him on July 5th\u00a0about hooligans who torched his sculpture of the first lady. He said the statue was &#8220;blackened and\u00a0disfigured&#8221; &#8211; and police removed it the next day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1281406056963477504&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fmelania-trump-statue-set-fire-slovenian-home-town&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1281406056963477504\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I want to know why they did it,&#8221; Downey said, adding that he would like to interview the arsonist for an upcoming film he is working on.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokeswoman Alenka Drenik\u00a0said the investigation &#8220;has not been completed yet, so we cannot reveal details due to the interest of further procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The wooden statue of the first lady was unveiled last year\u00a0&#8211; it depicts the first lady as she stood at\u00a0President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration day &#8211;\u00a0wearing a light blue coat and waving her left hand.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Sevnica told Reuters in 2019 that the statue &#8220;does not look as beautiful as she normally is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downey told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-removed-scli-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0locals had been nothing but &#8220;supportive&#8221; about the statue.\u00a0They were really proud of this thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the virus pandemic, a\u00a0wooden statue mocking President\u00a0Trump was burnt in Slovenia&#8217;s city of Moravce.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/melania-trump-statue-set-fire-slovenian-home-town\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/melania-trump-statue-set-fire-slovenian-home-town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump Statue Set On Fire In Slovenian Home Town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}