Nope, the above picture is not the statue. That’s the inspiration for the statue.

The actual statue exceeds even my high expectations.

Before we head on over to AOL for some details on how a tribute to American First Lady Melania Trump is the funniest thing on the internet this week, let’s take a moment to appreciate all those terrible football statues that have been erected recently.

George Best, Mo Salah, Cristiano Ronaldo – never forget.

Back to Melania. A statue of FLOTUS was unveiled near her hometown in Slovenia on Friday.

The life-size wooden sculpture was made from the trunk of a linden tree and stands in a field next to the Sava River in the village of Rozno, which is about five miles from the first lady’s hometown of Sevnica.

The statue’s face bears no likeness to her, but the piece does feature Trump wearing a blue coat, similar to the one she had on at her husband’s presidential inauguration in 2017.

This person on Twitter disagrees:

The piece was commissioned by Berlin-based American artist Brad Downey, and is part of his exhibition examining the First Lady’s ancestry in Slovenia.

If the statue is anything to go on, that Botox has worked some serious magic to erase that ancestry. More on the statue:

Let’s hear from the Slovenian people:

Three whole days, you say? It shows.

The unorthodox piece has caused a stir. Residents called it “a disgrace” and a “Smurfette,” while noting “it doesn’t look anything like Melania,” reported the BBC.

More from Twitter:

The statue is even inspiring poetry now:

I think it’s wonderful.

[source:aol]