>> There was an oddly shaped statue erected of Melania Trump, in the hometown she grew
up in, in Slovenia.
Now, the statue was ugly, let's just keep it real it was misshapen.
And now it turns out, that someone has attempted to set it ablaze, and to some extent succeeded
in doing so.
But the end product doesn't really look that different from the original version, and I
suspect that the person who set this on fire was Melania Trump, herself, for obvious reasons.
Now the person who commissioned the statue is Brad Downey, he's actually from the United
States and he has filed a police report.
He says, that he will not press charges against the individual who has set the statue on fire,
he just wants to know why they did it.
Now, keep in mind that there's also a Trump statue, that was set on fire in January.
So, I think maybe it's easy to figure out why someone would do that, at this point especially.
Now Brad Downey, again, the person who commissioned the statue, said, the face is burned but the
features are intact,.
We can still see the face, the blue dress is still all blue, okay?
So, he doesn't want locals to distribute photos of the scorched figure, because he doesn't
want it to turn into a violent meme.
And he's also confused about, whether the left or the right were responsible for the
burning.
Let me give you a quote he says, there's a lot of buzz around the destruction of monuments,
so it could come from left-leaning people.
Or it could come from right-leaning people, because they don't like how it looks or think
it's disrespectful, aesthetically.
>> I love that, I hadn't seen that quote.
So finally we get an acknowledgement of how ugly it is.
Even he knows it, he's like, I mean, look, we just pace it, how brutal we made Melania
look.
I don't know if he intended it, I don't know if it was trolling.
One of the articles said, that he commissioned a local artist, a conceptual artist, to do
the face.
If that was a picture, like if I'm Melania, I'd pay someone to burn that.
I mean, that's brutal is the worst depiction I've ever seen.
And I'm being fair Melania is, like infinitely, better looking than that statue.
>> No, I mean look if that were a statue of me, forget paying someone to do it for me
like, this is the kind of matter you need to take into your own hands.
And you need to like, watch it burn yourself, okay?
Like it's like, being beyond insulting, when the statue was first erected, I was like,
I saw how people are making fun of it.
I don't think we ever talked about it, maybe we did briefly, but, I felt a little bad,
because there is an artist who did this, right?
And you don't want the artist to feel bad, but it's really bad, it was really bad.
And, I do think that someone probably set it on fire for political reasons, considering
that Trump statue, was also burnt in January of this year.
And by the way, it reminded a lot of people about the Ha homo, that was from 2012, while
someone attempted to restore a painting of Jesus and they failed.
>> Okay, no, no, sorry, look, I hold out hope that the artist was trollling.
But if he wasn't trolling brother, I love you but you gotta get another job.
Okay So and by the way, who's likely to burn it?
Yeah, far more likely that it was people on the left, it was burned during the 4th of
July.
I mean, I don't know left right in Slovenia and exactly what their politics is.
But certainly an anti American and anti Trump message, but I think they did the world their
favor.
So, I know Trump hates it when people take down statues, but if they showed him that's
what Melania, looks like in that statue.
There's some chance Trump, took a trip on Air Force One, and he burned it himself.