We should just come out and say it — Donald Trump has a thing for Eastern European women.

I remember Trump’s first wife Ivana well — Polish magazines praised her, and thousands of Dynasty-watching post-Communist women, who saw their aspirations reflected in the Czech immigrant and successful businesswoman, adored her. Though New York’s high society never fully accepted her, Eastern Europe — then in the throes of a brutal capitalist transition — admired Ivana’s entrepreneurialism.

Today, her ex-husband marches on Washington accompanied by another Eastern European woman — ex-model Melania Knauss, born Melanija Knavs in 1970 in Nove Mesto, Slovenia, which was then part of Josip Tito’s Yugoslavia.