Dressing up as Donald Trump used to be hilarious for Halloween, say Canadian businesses that rent or sell costumes, but they say hardly anyone is finding the joke funny in 2025.

“Certainly I haven’t set up somebody dressing up like Trump in a very long time,” says Christy Greenwood, owner of Theatre Garage in Edmonton.

“And I think a lot of it very much has to do with the rhetoric of the 51st state.”

Back in October 2016 when Trump was still the Republican nominee for running against Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, Greenwood says lots of people were looking for blond Trump wigs. Her shop even managed to figure out what makeup to use to replicate Trump’s unusual orange skin tone — she says the colour is called auguste and it’s a standard colour used by clowns.

But the costume’s

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