The media are having a difficult time smearing candidates without damning themselves in the process.
For her latest piece, entertainment editor Sara Boboltz gushed over a new creation: the Donald Trump "sex doll." “Now You Can Buy Your Own Trump Blow-Up Sex Doll (For A Good Cause),” her Huffington Post headline advertised Monday.
Because a good cause legitimizes turning someone into a sex object. Although this “sex doll” looks anything but:
The doll was created by Syrian artist Saint Hoax when he could no longer ignore “the vitriol that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth,” Boboltz reported. The GOP presidential candidate recently commented on the European refugee crisis saying that, if elected, he would send back Syrian refugees located in the U.S.
Likewise, Boboltz marketed the “satirical project” that was “made to look like” Trump.
“For $39, you can own a Trump of your very own, to do with as you see fit,” she highlighted, before adding that the proceeds will go to the UN Refugee Agency.
In an email correspondence with the Huffington Post, the artist detailed how useful his doll could be.
"I'm hoping to raise enough money to show people how a blow-up Donald is actually more useful than the actual Trump," Saint Hoax told Boboltz.
As a plus, you can “pop” the Trump doll – with extra accessories.
"People can fill him up with air and deflate him at any minute," he explained. "It's a symbolic representation of how a political leader is made. Each box includes a Trump doll and a needle for you to pop him whenever you feel like it."
Boboltz concluded, “Find them on Saint Hoax's website.”
Saint Hoax’s site did not explicitly label the Trump model as a “sex doll,” like the Huffington Post. Instead, he called the imitation a “blow-up Trump.”
His one reference to a “sex doll” came from a poem he posted on his site:
"Political leaders are our own personal sex dolls. We need them to fulfill a certain undisclosed pleasure. We purchase a humbled vinyl body and blow it up into a leader.
With each breath, we exhale expectations.
With each expectation, we exhale power.
Then that power shapes into a figure.
As we stare directly into the painted eyes of our new saviors, we realize that they cannot see us. Although we’d like to think more of them, our blown up leaders are filled with nothing but air, and they are a needle POP away from going back to the hollow vinyl exterior they once were."
