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  • FORD
    ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

    • Jan 2004
    • 59099

    Orange Is The New Buddha




    newsweek.com
    Donald Trump Buddha Statues Are Being Sold Across China
    John Feng


    A Chinese furniture maker made headlines this week after it began selling Donald Trump Buddha statues online, spawning a string of competing copycats.

    Buyers on Alibaba-owned e-commerce site Taobao can order a 6-inch pensive statuette of the 45th president of the United States starting at 999 Chinese yuan ($150).

    The figurine features former President Trump meditating in a lotus position with his eyes shut. The miniature sculpture, which can be made in either porcelain or resin, is listed on Taobao as "Ancient India Know-All Buddha Trump."

    The toy is accompanied by the phrase "Make Your Company Great Again," a play on the president's 2016 campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."


    While the statue comes in only one pose, it is offered in two sizes—a larger 18-inch version of the president in Buddhist monk robes is available for 3,999 Chinese yuan ($615)

    The five-star Taobao carpentry business named "Buduo" has already sold 36 of the statuettes, including two of the big ones. It has promised customers delivery in April.

    According to China's state-owned tabloid Global Times, which said it spoke with the unnamed owner, most buyers are purchasing the figurine for fun.

    There appears to be a larger market for Trump memorabilia in China. Several businesses on Taobao are now listing copycat Donald Trump Buddha statues—some even offering a seven-day unconditional refund policy.

    Other related merchandise on the retail website includes T-shirts and hoodies bearing the president's likeness, as well as mugs shaped like his face.

    For a discounted price of 16 Chinese yuan, shoppers can even get their hands on a Trump-themed toilet brush, which features his iconic orange hair as the bristles.



    The Chinese government had a complex relationship with the Trump administration. It began with a diplomatic faux pas and led to a phase-one trade deal before disagreements over Beijing's early handling of COVID-19 plunged bilateral ties to an all-time low.

    Officially, Beijing is still blaming President Joe Biden's predecessor for fraught U.S.-China relations, but the Chinese public seemed to enjoy watching much of the controversy he created in domestic American politics, right up until his high-profile Twitter ban in January.

    "Trump" was the most searched term on Chinese social media and microblogging website Weibo in 2020, according to local media reports.

    Between January 1 and December 24 last year, the former president found himself on Weibo's trending list 589 times—nearly 60 percent more than the celebrity who placed second on the list: singer/actor Wang Yibo.

    Trump was the only non-Chinese person and the only politician to appear among the 20 most-searched individuals of the year.
    Eat Us And Smile

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  • Jérôme Frenchise
    ROTH ARMY SUPREME
    • Nov 2004
    • 7190

    #2
    Oh, it seems the article you posted doesn't please evrybody, FORD.
    posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
    posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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    • FORD
      ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

      • Jan 2004
      • 59099

      #3
      Well, that's normal for me. Though I'd rather they objected in English so I knew what the fuck they were saying. Suspect this was just a random spam attack though. Just a coincidence that they hit a thread with "Buddha" in the title.

      I'm OK with the real Buddha... not so much the Orange one.
      Eat Us And Smile

      Cenk For America 2024!!

      Justice Democrats


      "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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