There's a debate raging in Sevnica, Slovenia, the hometown of America's first lady, Melania Trump. Is a newly unveiled statue of Trump a tribute -- or the work of a troublemaker?
There's a debate raging in Sevnica, Slovenia, the hometown of America's first lady, Melania Trump. Is a newly unveiled statue of Trump a tribute -- or the work of a troublemaker?
For Sevnica, a tiny industrial town with 5,000 inhabitants, Trump's likeness is the latest acknowledgement that the local girl's fame has become a tourist attraction, luring many Americans and other foreign visitors to the quiet, mostly rural area in the eastern part of the central European country. But the two have taken hugely different life paths. Downey provided Maxi with a life-size photo of Trump and left the rest to him.
"It’s really a cultural shock for us," Mirjana Jelancic, a Sevnica school principal and a close childhood friend of Melania Trump, told ABC News, refusing to elaborate further.
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