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The wife of the most ridiculous man in world politics is the daughter of a card-carrying communist.

Somehow, OTT Republican candidate Donald Trump ended up married to a woman whose dad was a registered member of the Communist party.

And not only is Melania Trump’s dad left-wing, he also looks… eerily similar to The Donald.

In fact we reckon, with a little extra hair wax here and there, they could be twins…


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Yikes.

As you can imagine, Melania’s life with mega-capitalist Trump is a world away from her socialist upbringing.

The 45-year-old former model grew up in the small town of Sevnica, which before the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s was under the dictatorship of Marshall Tito and satellite state of the USSR.

Records of Viktor Knav’s Communist Party membership (Picture: Archives of the Republic of Slovenia)

Although her dad Viktor Knavs was a registered Communist, her mum Amalija wasn’t.



But it is pretty exceptional, as at that time only around five per cent of Slovenians were Communist party members.

Melania Knavs Trump, right, with her childhood friend Nena Bedek, centre (Picture: Chris Warde-Jones)

In line with their father’s officially atheist beliefs, Melania and her sister Ines weren’t baptised and didn’t make their first holy communion with the town’s other children.

But Viktor’s party membership came in handy when it came to securing a job for himself and Amalija, and allowed them access to good that others couldn’t get hold of.

‘Viktor was in the Party which helped you to get government jobs or higher positions,’ one relative in Sevnica told Mail Online.

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She added that he may not have really believed in the party line, but just joined to keep their lives comfortable.

‘Maybe he was just being pragmatic. Being in the Party made things a bit easier and meant he could help his family,’ the relative added.

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‘He had connections. He could always get little luxuries or essentials like car parts that other people couldn’t get their hands on.’

If that’s true, at least the world makes sense again.

Seven of the least communist things Donald Trump's ever said ‘Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich.’

‘I’m the number one developer in New York. I’m the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we will keep it that way.’

‘Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.’

‘I’m really rich. And by the way, I’m not saying that in a bragging way, that’s the kind of mindset you need for this country. We gotta make this country rich.’

‘It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.’

‘The point is that you can’t be too greedy.’

‘Rich people are rich because they solve difficult problems.’