Unflattering Trump Masks Are Yuuuge Business for This Mexican Retailer Olivia Niland - Mashable
go to original April 9, 2016

A latex mask bearing the image of GOP frunt-runner Donald Trump has become a top-seller at a Mexican mask factory. (CNN Money)

Despite his comments about Mexican immigrants and ideas about how he'll make the Mexican government pay for "the wall," Donald Trump's GOP front-runner status has managed to be positive for Mexico in at least one way: locally-made masks of his face are selling like hotcakes.

Caretas REV, a mask-making company in central Mexico, has produced tens of thousands of Trump masks since last fall, CNN Money reported.

The majority of those masks are sold in the United States, and the company expects orders to increase in coming months, co-owner Ricardo Esponda told CNN. The deluxe version of the latex mask, which comes with artificial hair, retails for $23 in the U.S., and the standard all-latex version is $19.95.

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Related: FACT CHECK: Donald Trump Claims Undocumented Immigrants Send Most Mexican Wire Transfers (ABC News)

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