Mexicans beat American billionaire Donald Trump over criminal remarks

Mexicans beat American billionaire Donald Trump over criminal remarks

Days after billionaire Donald Trump accused Mexico of sending criminals to live in the United States, a Mexican artisan has given angry Mexicans an outlet – a Trump pinata they can stuff with candy and beat with a stick.

In the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Dalton Ramirez works at his family’s pinata shop where they create a variety of paper mache figures to be filled with treats and broken open with sticks on birthdays and holidays.

Last week, he heard about Trump’s Tuesday speech in which the real estate mogul and television personality announced his U.S. presidential bid and said Mexico was not a friend of the United States, describing Mexican migrants to the country as drug-runners, criminals and rapists.

Ramirez said the comments made him angry and inspired him to create a pinata in the form of ‘The Donald’.

“Normally I don’t care if the pinatas I made will be broken, but especially this pinata, we could say, is the one that everyone want to break. When we were making it, we said, ‘Let’s break it, let’s do something to it,’ because we’re angry because of what he said,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez said the billionaire’s words took aim at a group of people who are essentially voiceless and subject to discrimination and human rights violations.

“Most of the people who visit us here, because we’re at the border, are people (with Mexican roots) who live in the U.S, and yes they suffer, we can say from a type of discrimination, a lack of rights and many things. So when this man talks about them, publicly, he promotes discrimination and it is something serious for us,” he said.

Featuring Trump’s hallmark hairstyle, the pinata shows him wearing a suit while gesturing with his left hand and talking out of an open big mouth.

But it is not the first celebrity pinata Ramirez has made. For years, his shop has made and sold pinatas in the form of other public figures alongside the traditional animal shapes, soccer balls and stars.

Traditionally, pinatas are filled with candy on holidays and birthdays and blindfolded children use sticks to break them open before rushing to gather up all the sweet treats.

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