Posted on 07/26/2018 8:21:28 AM PDT by simpson96
SEVNICA, Slovenia — Melania cake. Melania cream. Melania wine. Melania tea. Melania slippers. Melania salami. Melania chocolate-coated apple slices.
There are few products that the enterprising burghers of Sevnica, a small, rural Slovenian town where Melania Trump spent her formative years, have not sought to brand in honor of the first lady of the United States.
Copyright restrictions mean that most of the items merely allude to her identity: The wine is called “First Lady,” while the slippers (a silvery number garnished with a fluffy white rabbit’s tail) are called “White House.”
But legal kerfuffles aside, Mrs. Trump has been good for Sevnica (pronounced SEH-oo-nee-tsa) — a town of around 5,000 that sits in a forest-lined river valley some 90 minutes by car from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
The town’s only hotel reopened earlier this year. The annual tourist traffic — helped, of course, by Melania-themed tours — has risen by 15 percent, to 20,000 visitors, in the three years since Mrs. Trump’s husband, then a real estate mogul and a star of reality television, became a front-runner for the presidency.
“After Melania, things really changed,” said Srecko Ocvirk, the town’s mayor. “Now we have tourists from all over the world.”
At Kopitarna, the shoe company that makes the Melania-themed slippers, staff members saluted Mrs. Trump for putting Slovenia on the map. “Many other people,” said Marija Balinc, an export manager, “thought we were called Slovakia.”
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I was watching a different movie a while ago and I thought - the music reminds me of Doctor Zhivago - and sure enough the composer of the score was Maurice Jarre.
I hear the wailing, knashing of teeth and rending of garments from “female” leftists because they realise that Melania could easily be one of them but they can never be her.
I’m strange that way.
Maybe that’s what is going on, plain old jealousy.
With Mrs. O, one could always chose to pity her due to her homely appearance and sour disposition. Very different with Mrs. Trump.
She has a sister
I would like to see Slovenia, it looks like it has some really pretty scenery.
And I don’t know if Melania was intending to look like some kind of Greek or Roman goddess, but this look came very close.
Yes. Very much so.
The fact that she is beautiful inside and out and was successful on her own drives them batty.
Most women on the left, if they have physical beauty, let their inner darkness seep out and they can’t stand that Melania has beauty, grace and humility to spare.
She lets her total beauty shine through and yes they are very jealous.
OMG! Lovely!
Thx for the ping? :)
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