Archinect - News 2024-11-24T04:47:25-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149960678/melania-trump-s-website-disappears-after-architecture-degree-claim-is-debunked Melania Trump's website disappears after architecture degree claim is debunked Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-07-29T18:01:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mv/mvzelhr4onqxz6x0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As you may remember <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149958855/yeah-so-about-melania-trump-s-architecture-degree" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">from last week</a>, Melania Trump's (and the RNC's) claim that she has an architecture degree was debunked, after scrutiny from multiple news sources:</p><p><em>The ensuing wave of critical attention towards Melania Trump [for plagiarizing Michelle Obama] dug up other questionable details about her position in the campaign&mdash;among them, its claim that she obtained &ldquo;a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia&rdquo;, according to her bio in the&nbsp;<a href="http://convention.gop/post/147558746375/2016-gop-convention-program-announced" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GOP Convention&rsquo;s program</a>. The same information appears on Melania Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.melaniatrump.com/my-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">official website</a>.</em></p><p><em>An obvious red flag, pointed out by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.snopes.com/melania-trump-architecture-degree/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">snopes.com</a>, is that &ldquo;There is no &lsquo;University in Slovenia,&rsquo; nor is there a &lsquo;University of Slovenia.&rsquo;&rdquo; Previous to the RNC, multiple profiles of Melania Trump (including those for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GQ</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/who-is-melania-trump" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a>) had looked into her academic background and reported that she did indeed attend the school of architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, to become a designer, but dropped out to pursue modelin...</em></p>