A giant rooster ,with gold Trump features, three-toed feet and a blood-red wattle has been erected in a Chinese shopping centeri n the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, just three weeks prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration.
US President-elect was immortalized this week in China — though perhaps not in a way that he would like.
This statue, with Donald J. Trump’s golden quiff, bushy eyebrows and preening gestures, was installed outside a shopping mall was built to celebrate the coming Year of the Rooster in the Chinese lunar calendar .
Global Times, a state-run tabloid, said on Tuesday that onlookers in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, had praised the statue as a “perfect blend of Chinese and Western cultures.”
Inflatable “Trump chicken” replicas were on sale at Taobao, an online shopping bazaar, with a 32-foot version advertised for $1,725.
Casey Latiolais, an illustrator and animator in Seattle, said in a telephone interview that he completed the design in early November for Beijing Reliance Commercial Land, a real estate company that had contacted him through Behance, a website where artists post their portfolios. Mr. Latiolais said the company had asked only for a statue to commemorate the Year of the Rooster and did not mention Mr. Trump.
“This was way more yuge than I expected,” he wrote on Twitter.