This Mexican Artist Made an Uncanny Donald Trump Piñata

For reasons that still aren’t that clear, 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump doesn’t like Mexico. I mean, he really doesn’t like Mexico.

He bashed the country when he bashed the Oscars back in February, claimed he’d build a wall to curb illegal immigration and make Mexico pay for it, and characterized its citizens as “rapists.” So yeah, it’s apparently not his favorite country.

But that’s okay, because if artist Dalton Avalos Ramirez are shared by the country in question, then they don’t like “The Donald” all that much either. But what did Ramirez do to demonstrate this? Claim that American-made Oscar-bait films are trash? Refuse to pay for Trump’s anti-immigration wall? Call his Toupé a visual rapist?

No, Ramirez made a Donald Trump piñata:

The Donald’s doppelgänger took the Internet by storm not too long after Ramirez posted the photos on Friday. And for good measure, as Trump’s anti-Mexico comments set off a media firestorm that he rightly deserved. As Ramirez explains, he created the piñata “because of the hatred Trump expressed for the Mexican people.”

Just in case you don’t know what a piñata is, it’s a traditional paper-mache toy that’s filled with candy, hung aloft, and beset upon by blindfolded and sugar-starved children. It has deep historical roots in Mexico, but like almost everything on Taco Bell’s menu, has long since been adopted and Americanized.

[h/t The Guardian]
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