A giant rooster statue resembling U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has been erected in China’s Shanxi Province.
The sculpture was inspired by Trump’s iconic hairstyle and gestures.
Described as the perfect blend of Chinese and Western cultures, it heralds the upcoming Year of the Rooster in China and the start of a new Trump presidency in US.
The giant rooster figure appears outside a shopping mall in downtown Taiyuan, in north China’s Shanxi Province.
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CNN.com reports:
The sculpture was commissioned by the company that owns the mall and will be its mascot, Cao Mingliang, the deputy director of planning department from N1 ArtWalk Mall, told CNN.
Cao said a series of products and smaller replicas will be available for sale in the future, though some are already being sold on Taobao, the Chinese e-commerce giant owned by Alibaba.
Wei Qing, whose Shenghe Yangtai Business is selling replica roosters, told CNN he thought sculpture was hilarious.
“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,” he said.
At least four stores are selling the Trump rooster, with prices starting from $57 to a whopping $1,739 for a statue that’s 32 feet tall.
This isn’t even the first avian doppleganger Trump has had in China this year.
State-run People’s Daily tweeted out an image of a bird sporting a similar hairdo to the President-elect last month.
Meet the pheasant-elect: Bird sporting ‘Donald Trump’s hairstyle’ soars to internet fame in China https://t.co/qYUbMcDYmV pic.twitter.com/VTPlDcaBcp
— People’s Daily,China (@PDChina) 14 November 2016
Trump-related products and gag gifts have proliferated since the real estate mogul announced his candidacy for president.
The most iconic — the “Make America Great Again” hat — would eventually go on sale on the Trump campaign website.
maybe like the little banty rooster that talks big and puffs out his chest, but folds under the weight of the global powers.
I hope im wrong