Mexicans in Mexico will get to respond to what they see as “anti-Mexican” comments by Donald Trump by beating up a piñata made by an artist in the likeness of the toupee’d presidential candidate.
Artesan Dalton Avalos Ramirez created a Trump piñata after the outspoken mogul bashed Mexico on Tuesday during a speech when he announced he was running for president. During his kickoff speech, Trump accused Mexico of illegally sending drugs, crime and rapists across the border.
Avalos Ramirez, who lives and works in Reynosa, Mexico said Mexicans on both sides of the border are quite angry at his comments and are embracing the new piñata gladly.
He has sold five piñatas since he put out the first one on Wednesday, he said. He has also in talks for a bulk order of 50 Donald Trump piñatas for a customer based in McAllen, Texas.
In its most basic version, the Trump piñata goes for 500 pesos, or $40.
“It’s something metaphoric, people bashing him for the comments he made,” he told Fox News Latino over the phone.
“We thought [Trump’s comments] were very wrong because we are a working country, we go to the United States to work, but unfortunately we face a lot of racism,” he added.
Let me say as an American of Mexican descent that I didn’t find Trump’s comments racist at all. He simply said that some illegals from Mexico are criminals, and some are rapists and drug dealers. How is that not simply true? He didn’t say all were, and he actually admitted that many are good people. SO what the hell is the problem here?
I still think Trump is a dope though.
Also I thought we had established that piñatas cannot be used for political purposes in the movie “Napoleon Dynomite”?!?
En mi cumpleaños quiero la piñata de Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/6DbRlh4AX8
— Emmanuell (@emmanuell_s) June 19, 2015