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El Trump-o starts spilling candy after getting his legs knocked off by a baseball bat.
Donald Trump-o returned to St. Louis for the annual Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo celebration this weekend.
No, not Donald Trump, the businessman-turned-reality TV star-turned-Republican presidential candidate. He hasn’t been back to St. Louis since March, when he held a rally downtown. (See more: Why It’s Weird That Trump Talked About Football in St. Louis)
Rather, Saturday’s Cinco de Mayo celebration featured El Trump-o, the Trump-inspired piñata built by Cherokee Street restaurant Yaqui's Fine Wine and Pizza out of magazines, wheat paste, and pizza boxes. Yaqui’s built the first El Trump-o for Mexican Independence Day in September, and, like any good piñata, it was a big hit.
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Richard Rodriguez, Yaqui’s owner, says he reprised the piñata for Cinco de Mayo as a pushback against the billionaire Republican presidential candidate who’s criticized Mexican immigrants for being drug users, criminals and rapists.
“Any working man or woman that would feel they have a kinship with Donald Trump is I think insane,” Rodriguez says in a video about the event. “He got all of his money from his father, who is a notorious slumlord in New York City. Why would you have any kinship with somebody from the one percent like that? If the one percent had the chance they’d grind us into powder and sell us by the pound. I’m not interested in his message.”
El Trump-o was a guest of honor for the People’s Joy parade down Cherokee Street during the daylong celebration. Then Yaqui’s strung him up and let neighborhood children take turns whacking at his legs with a baseball bat.
“It’s a traditional thing for Mexican people to do,” Rodriquez said of the piñata. “It’s just an effigy. Nobody should lose their damn minds over this, after all, come on, it’s a paper-mache effigy of Donald Trump.”
What the video of El Trump-o here:
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