SHANGHAI - For Zeng Sheng, the manager at Shanghai Maiyi Arts, this autumn should have been a boon for business: with the U.S. presidential election, demand for the centre’s wax replicas of Donald Trump should have been off the charts.
“Tourist sites, amusement parks, houses of famous people are temporarily not open,” Zeng said. “Since they can’t resume work, we can’t get new orders.”Located in the outskirts of Shanghai, about an hour’s drive from the city centre, its exhibition hall also doubles as makeshift museum, where guests can pose next to replicas of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, martial arts star Jackie Chan, and others.
The virus, however, hit orders twice: first in China, when factories and tourist sites closed, and then overseas. Business remains about two-thirds its normal size, Zeng says.
Don't worry. Demand will pick when he loses in November!
Imagine the shame one must feel putting so much time into that.
The wax figure looks better
He looks like the vampires in that Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise movie in the 90s Totally got the neck wrong too
I’m not sure which is creepier, the fake Trump or the real Trump. A think it’s a tie! 😁
Now the effigy can begin.
Oh if this was the only reality we had to contend with where this monster appears: silent, waxy, lifeless - what a beautiful thought.
lol
The neck is all wrong.
not orange enough
Does anyone else wonder who in the world are buying these things?
He made him look too young, not enough wrinkles, not enough scowling, too much hair and not enough orange. Sorry, but if I (God forbid) wanted to buy something like that, I would want a less flattering, truer likeness.
Get a trump one, and have a wick put in it! A perfect effigy!
Reuters sustains the guillotine narrative.
It looks like the bastard son of a beeswax candle and Boris Yeltsin RadioFreeTom
I think we all lament the pandemic. More importantly, the lives lost. Not the money that could have been made exactly.
Haha !!
Yeah I’m sure that’s what everyone one wants. What an idiotic article!
Yes I have seen and laughed mostly....let the professionals do it London WAX!
Yes, I'd like to comment on an obvious oversight to that display as the Trump dummy isn't sucking the Putin one off in the slightest.
demand from who?
Trump made in China!
Insane Trump’s disembodied head... and felt uplifted...
I don't think lockdowns should be blamed for a drop in demand.
Didn't they put the head on a spike then on the battlements?
Gross.
Satin
And the wax figures are far more intelligent than him.
The only thing I find more frightening than wax Trump, is real Trump.
Honest question.... why the F*** do you need a full sized wax replica in your house/business?
Can I unsee this please?
Needs more orange
Looks nothing like him...
that thing lacks a lot of orange, also to much hair lol
Where oh where is that 'trumpy baby' balloon?
Trump put very high tariffs on Trump sex dolls that selling to the US. US consumers will pay for the tariff.
Thse are horrible a bad dream. But I really liked the part where all the chopoff ones were on display. Hard to figure out which one is the real one. 😜
His hair hat looks a lot better on the wax figure.
Maybe they shouldn't have tried to hide the truth about the virus until it spread out of their country. No sad for them here.
I bet trump-head pinatas would sell well in a pinch.
We did not miss this. You have ran this story a million times in the past 2 weeks. We just don't care.
The hair is all wrong. Trump has about 10% of that doll's hair. And who would want something so monstrous in their home?
Looks like a drunk Russian (which is the most accurate part). They were nice not to bleach a bird's nest and put it on his head. But the resemblance is scant, the face is too young and neither adequately fat nor orange enough. I'm guessing all Caucasians look the same? 😂
inb4 the Democrats claim China is supporting Trump
That wax looks exactly like Trump. It doesn’t have a brain either
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Also too much hair
Not fat enough and not enough greasy brown makeup.
so,Trump's elective stuff is made in China
That’s very creepy. It’s not even that close to Halloween yet. Ewww!
I bet he will be re-elected, with the current economy, 2/3 already much higher than expected..
A Chinese company profiteering off the Pedodent who owes the Chinese millions of dollars from his always awful business dealings. Go figure.
Trump-Made in China.😂
Stick a candle on his head would be more useful.
Oh my god that thing is ugly. Simply horrendous and very hard to look at. Fantastic likeness.
Holy poop this is freaky. I'm gonna try to wash this nightmare away from my eyeballs now, but thanks for the explainology...
Doesn't look like Trump.... needs a gallon of orange paint 🎨🍊
Are they going to have a wax statue of Joe Biden molesting and raping Tara Reade? Oh, that's right he is a Democrat. Joe Biden is above the law.
Always knew he was off his head
WTF wants a wax figure on that POS?
Can this Shanghai Maiyi make wax statues of Xi Jinping? or more accurately, will CCP allows it? Or the artist will go directly to jail? I bet they are not even allowed to make Winnie The Pooh!
trump is not operating near that much.
who is ordering this creepy puppet ?
He looks too much like Professor Snape.
Reason why realDonaldTrump is a good president
Thought it was him, until I spotted the glint of human warmth.
Is he putting together a diorama for DNC or JoeBiden attack ad?