It’s not easy being Melania Trump. Not only is she married to one of the most despicable men in the world, she’s become a laughingstock herself.
A private school in Croatia has Trump up in arms after it displayed billboards offering English lessons that used a photo of her in front of a waving American flag. The sign reads, “Just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English.”
Trump, who is from neighboring Slovenia and speaks with a heavy accent, was not amused. The billboards were removed this week.
The school has apologized and they swear they didn’t mean it as an insult.
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“We are very sorry that the billboards were misunderstood as something intended to mock the U.S. first lady,” Ivis Buric, a spokeswoman for the school, told the Associated Press. “It was meant to be something positive, to show her as a role model.”
Trump fled Slovenia’s poverty in her 20s to become an international model. She became Donald Trump’s third wife in 2005 and quickly became a United States citizen; she is decades younger than the lecher-in-chief.
Trump’s first wife, Ivana, was also a foreign-born model who was naturalized after marrying him. Looks like learning English helped her too. Maybe she’s available for endorsement deals.