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President-elect Donald Trump may be on his way to the White House, but Mexican politicians from the Party of Democratic Revolution are not too fond of him.
During a Christmas party Tuesday, the left-leaning organization took turns smashing a Trump piñata to show how they feel about soon-to-be American president.
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Mexican Senator and Party Leader Miguel Barbosa insisted that smashing Trump piñata was done in good humor.
“They are popular and spontaneous forms of expressing the rejection that we have toward Trump,” Barbosa said. “That is the feeling that is held for someone who has aggravated Mexico. Donald Trump is a person repudiated not only by Mexico, but by the world.”
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“We must not take it as a provocation but as it was, a Christmas pre-fiesta that showed the rejection and a way of thinking of many Mexicans,” he added.
Smashing Trump piñatas has been a popular form of protest against the president-elect. During a Guns N’ Roses concert, the band invited fans onstage to take turns hitting a much larger version of one.
Former Mexico President Vicente Fox has even participated in taking a swing at the Republican businessman, while appearing on a Spanish talk show.
“Empty, totally empty,” Fox said when the piñata broke. “He doesn’t have a brain.”
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Trump piñatas can also be found online from a variety of retailers.
Trump’s ill-fated reputation with Mexico was cemented with his presidential announcement speech in June 2015.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” Trump said at the time.
The news media was quick to capitalize on the comments Trump made, even though he clarified he wasn’t referring to all Mexicans.
“I am personally offended by the mainstream media’s attempt to distort my comments regarding Mexico and its great people,” Trump later said. “I have many successful business relationships with Mexican companies and employ and am close friends with many Mexican people. I also have tremendous respect for the leaders of Mexico, who, frankly, are much smarter and tougher than our politicians here in the United States.”
