While Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are battling, it appears some Chinese manufacturers are taking advantage of this growing frenzy surrounding this year’s US election by making various products from T-shirts with the Republican candidate’s portrait, to badges and hats.
One specifically Chinese company is cashing in on Trump’s image by printing his face on toilet paper.
Qingdao Wellpaper Industrial Co., based in north China’s Shandong province, said sales of its “Dump with Trump” rolls are on the rise since mid-February.
“At the start, orders were for around 100 rolls a time, but now we’re getting orders for 5,000 rolls,” a saleswoman from the company told China Daily
on Tuesday.
Rolls sell for about 50 cents each, and are available in three prints based on Trump’s facial expressions: smiling Trump, pointing Trump and pouting Trump, as New York Post.
Many of its buyers are based in America, including US women’s national soccer team star Sydney Leroux, who posted a photo of it on Instagram in May.
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