Like Americans, a lot of Chinese do not like U.S. President-elect Donald Trump especially when he tweeted about the South China Sea dispute.
So it is not surprising that Chinese people are poking fun at him by making a huge rooster statue that looks like Trump, complete with the signature bird’s nest hairdo. The statue was adopted by the N1 ArtWalk Mall in Taiyuan City to welcome the Year of Rooster in Chinese horoscope.
Mini Versions for Sale
Besides the giant statue, smaller versions of it are selling at four stores in the mall, ranging in price from 11,907 yuan for the 32-foot version and 400 yuan for a smaller one. “I think the rooster is very cute and funny, the hairstyle and eyebrows look very much like Donald Trump. I'm sure it will attract a lot of customers,” Wei Qing, spokesperson for Shenghe Yangtai Business, the seller of the Trump rooster statue, said, The Telegraph quoted.
Cao Mingliang, deputy director of the mall’s planning department, said the mall commissioned the creation of the Trump rooster statue, CBS reported. In mid-November, a photo of a golden pheasant at the Hangzhou Safari Park became viral because of its similarities with the look of Trump. The bird, called “Little Red,” is not alone since the park has 50 other pheasants that is endemic to China’s mountain areas which also sports the golden hair.
Phone Call
Trump’s accepting the telephone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen after the Republican candidate was declared winner in the November presidential election also angered China. Following what Beijing considers a diplomatic insult, a Chinese daily, Global Times, wrote on its strongly worded editorial, “Trump is not behaving as a president who will become master of the White House in a month. He bears no sense of how to lead a superpower.”