Donald Trump gets statue in wife's homeland of Slovenia

There's no mistaking it depicts Donald Trump: a large wooden statue of the US president has been erected in Slovenia, the homeland of his wife Melania.

The nearly eight-meter high (26 feet) construction shows Trump with his trademark hair style, blue suit, white shirt and a long red tie.

His right arm fist clenched is raised high like that of New York's Statue of Liberty.

When triggered, a mechanism opens a red-painted mouth and shark-like teeth appear.

"Like all populists, the statue has two faces," its creator, Tomaz Schlegl, said.

"One is humane and nice, the other is that of a vampire."
"But now this huge thing has grown, and everyone tells me it's a provocation."
Schlegel, an architect, defended his project, saying it is "provocation against populism that the world is full of."
"The pose is that of Superman. He can do and say whatever he wants without consequences."
"But maybe it's a metaphor of the Statue of Liberty which would make some sense since he seems to be doing everything in his power to negate the beauty and the spirit of the Statue of Liberty."