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		</div><p>A wooden statue mocking US President Donald Trump has been burned to the ground in Slovenia, the birthplace of his wife Melania, authorities said.</p>
<p>The nearly eight-metre (26ft) high construction, erected last year in a village in the north east of Slovenia, showed Mr Trump with his trademark hairstyle, blue suit, white shirt and a long red tie.</p>
<p>His right arm – fist clenched – was raised high like that of New York’s Statue of Liberty.</p>
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<p>Slovenian police are looking for the arsonist.</p>
<p>When triggered, a mechanism inside the statue opened a red-painted mouth and shark-like teeth used to appear.</p>
<p>“Like all populists, the statue has two faces,” its creator Tomaz Schlegl said when he unveiled the statue last August.</p>
<p>“One is humane and nice, the other is that of a vampire.”</p>
<p>Although the construction quickly became a tourist attraction,</p>
<figure id="attachment_147577" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-147577" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-147577" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2E0F88FC-0199-4127-9124-11BF028BFDA8.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="405" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-147577" class="wp-caption-text">The wooden statue before the fire</figcaption></figure>
<p>some local villagers were unhappy with its appearance, pledging to torch it by Halloween, October 31.</p>
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<p>It had to be moved to another village in the area.</p>
<p>Milan Balazic, the mayor of Moravce, where the statue ended up, said that unknown arsonists burned it.</p>
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<p>He said the torching of the statue “is a symbol of intolerance towards artistic projects in our society”.<br />
It is not the first time in Slovenia that a member of the Trump family has been carved in wood.</p>
<p>A life-size sculpture of the US first lady cut from the trunk of a linden tree was unveiled in her home town Sevnica last June, drawing mixed reactions from residents.</p>
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<p>The first lady, born Melanija Knavs, changed her name to Melania Knauss when she started modelling.<br />
She settled in New York in 1996 and met Mr Trump two years later.</p>
<p>There are mixed feelings about Mrs Trump in Slovenia, where hopes were high that she would promote her picturesque Alpine home country after Mr Trump took office.</p>
<p>But she has rarely mentioned Slovenia in her public appearances and has not visited the small central European country since Mr Trump’s inauguration.</p>
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