By Alexandra Mendoza

San Diego, Aug 7 (EFE).– Since Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump made his controversial remarks about Mexicans, the piñata fashioned to look like him has been a must-have at Latino parties, where it is given a few whacks for what the magnate thinks about immigrants.

“In the 14 years we’ve been making piñatas, this is the first time we’ve had one that is so much in demand,” Gustavo Magaña, owner of the family business Mini Bazar Yamima in San Diego where this model is selling like hotcakes, told EFE.

The first customer to order one at this store did it two days after the real estate mogul and reality show celeb announced his candidacy last June in a controversial speech in which he harshly criticized Mexico and immigrants from the Aztec nation.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” Trump said.

Since then the demand for Trump piñatas has soared so much it’s hard to find one unless the order is placed in advance.

“They’re constantly asking for them – those we have fly off of the shelves, there are never any left,” the merchant, a native of the western Mexican state of Jalisco, said.

About the piñata itself, Magaña pointed to the well-known hairstyle of the Republican hopeful, the big mouth and annoyed expression that recalled the Dantesque scene of The Donald making his incendiary speech against Mexicans.

Despite that, the Hispanic merchant said that Trump’s diatribe only makes him laugh.

“By wanting to do us harm, he only does our business good because he has us selling tons of piñatas,” said Magaña, who markets this product at between $30 and $45, depending whether it is covered with papier-mache or is hand painted. EFE