Koh Phangan expat can wait no longer to bash Donald Trump into paste

Five years ago, Ryan Anderson bought a Donald Trump pinata “as a joke,” thinking he would smash it after Hillary Clinton won the election. 

But she did not, so Anderson set the effigy aside, waiting for the right time to annihilate it. And now, years later, that wait is over. 

To celebrate the end of Trump’s impeachment trial, Anderson will finally tear into the paper mache Donald on Thursday at his Mexican restaurant on Koh Phangan, an event that the American owner Anderson said he has been waiting for this opportunity since 2016. 

“I’m really glad that he’s gone,” said Anderson. “As the election loomed, I knew the pinata and the world could not survive another four years of Trump, so I was confident this year we would get swinging.”

The 44-year-old Chicago native, who came to Thailand about 20 years…