There's no masking the facts. As Reuters reports, one Chinese factory is expecting Donald Trump to beat his likely U.S. presidential rival Hilary Clinton in the popularity stakes..."I think in 2016 this mask will completely sell out," said factory manager Jacky Chen, indicating a Trump mask.
At the Jinhua Partytime Latex Art and Crafts Factory, a Halloween and party supply business that produces thousands of rubber and plastic masks of everyone from Osama Bin Laden to Spiderman, Reuters reports that masks of Donald Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton faces are being churned out.
Sales of the two expected presidential candidates are at about half a million each but the factory management believes Trump will eventually run out the winner.
The firm was already beginning to stockpile the de facto Republican candidate's mask, he said.
China has largely refrained from responding to Trump's barbs, but Finance Minister Lou Jiwei described him as "an irrational type" in an interview in April.
Such issues are far removed from the Trump mask production line at the factory in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai.
Asked if he knew whose face he was making, 43-year-old worker Liu Dahua told reporters: "It's the president of the U.S., right?".
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