Mexicans to burn Donald Trump effigy in Easter ritual

[WhiteTara]

http://news.yahoo.com/mexicans-burn-donald-trump-effigy-easter-ritual-220248624.html

Mexico City (AFP) - Some Mexicans have found a new way to blow off steam over Donald Trump -- creating an effigy of the White House hopeful to burn in an Easter ritual.

It took Felipe Linares a week to make the more than six-foot (two-meter) papier-mache likeness of Trump wearing a blue suit, white shirt and red tie in his Mexico City workshop.

The smiling figure will go up in flames on Saturday during the "Burning of Judas," a tradition in which Mexicans torch effigies of the devil, politicians and others they dislike on the eve of Easter Sunday.

"We are going to burn Trump now because we don't like him. He speaks ill of Mexicans," Linares said, referring to the real estate tycoon's description of Mexican migrants as criminals and rapists.

He attached fireworks to the figure's feet to add noise to the pyrotechnics.

[0rganism]

1. has this ever happened before?

i do not remember any other presidential candidate being burned in effigy 7 months prior to an election.

[WhiteTara]

2. they say it is a ritual, not necessarily with a candidate.

People in Mexico have their own sense of humor.

[0rganism]

3. i'm imagining a Trump-shaped Zozobra situation

now substitute in a Trump head and tiny tiny fingers...

[WhiteTara]

4. that's great!

[Land of Enchantment]

6. LOL, we both thought about the same thing at the same time! nt

[Cali_Democrat]

9. I don't think so.

This is a first.

[Land of Enchantment]

5. Here in NM we burn 'Zozobra' (Old Man Gloom)

and I think our friends to the south will do a FINE job of it!

Nothing says 'Easter' like a flaming Trump!

[WhiteTara]

8. The original Burning Man festival!

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Make them pay for it.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Trump: "I'm not goin' to Effigy ! No way ! Terrible, terrible place !"

(I know, they didn't say they would burn him "in effigy" -- but they should have !)