Chinese social media users have mocked Donald Trump with an AI-generated video showing overweight Americans working in factories.
A viral 30-second clip shows a series of miserable-looking rotund Americans slowly sewing garments and building smartphones on crowded shop floors.
The video, which is set to Chinese music, is called “make America great again” and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
edit: added youtube link
give them maga hats, made in china.
I swear to sweet little 9lb 5 ounce Baby Jesus…
I have zero idea why China hasn’t slapped a 1,000% tarrif on any MAGA goods or anything that supports American conservative movements.
China makes all that shit, it’s a no brainer
That would be an export tax, which companies would then pass along.
Tariffs are a gov taxing its own people for things they import, without the involvement of the foreign exporter or country at all.
But yeah.
because when the u.s. destroys its global reputation, the dollar’s stability, relations with every ally, and itself from within----the prc wins. big.
That’s not how tariffs work.
The chinese MAGA hats are going from China to the U.S., not the other way around.
Edit: That, it turns out, is how tariffs work as well. TIL.
https://www.fulfill.com/glossary/export-tariff
It never gets old having people with zero idea what Im talking about, confidently tell me they don’t know what I’m talking about…
Like, I fully understand that not everyone knows everything.
But why do you all assume that you personally know everything, so when you run into something you’re not familiar with, you just insist the other person is wrong?
Is public education the last couple decades just this cooked that kids don’t know how to Google anything?
You just say whatever is in your head in the moment, and if someone smarter takes the time you might learn something, but most of the time just downvote and stop replying?
It’s not just you, I’m fucking terrified for society. People acting like you is why trump is president and America sucks.
Fucking be better bro
This is hilarious except that the factories aren’t here, and to every MAGAts’ surprise, they can’t appear overnight.
But it’s more than just that. The factories will never be built if industry leaders aren’t sure the situation is stable.
No one will invest a billion dollars building factories and setting up supply lines if the tariffs could go away tomorrow. They would lose their investment. The only way they would commit all that money is if they know the tariffs are here to stay.
And if there’s one thing we know about Donny it’s that he’s a fucking idiot. And it’s there’s two things we know about him it’s that he’s inconsistent and will bow to flattery. Only his most stubborn followers believe he’ll actually stick to things as they are right now, meaning the desire to invest locally will never materialize.
Trump’s stated reason for the tariffs (bringing industry back to the US) will never happen under his leadership. The only thing this will cause is pain and poverty for the American people.
Edit: And to prove this, mere hours after typing it the tariffs have been ‘paused’ for another 90 days. There’s no stability. No one would invest that kind of money into building factories in the US only for this to happen… again.
Even if he would keep things stable for the remainder of his term that is still not even close to enough time for the majority of factories to be built, start production and reach profitability and it is extremely unlikely that his successor would keep the tariffs around unchanged too.
I don’t really understand the need to bring industry in your own country, if another country does it cheaper.
The only reason I can think of is independence. Limiting others their power over you.
But purely economically? It’s a waste of resources.
Who will do these jobs anyways? For what income? What can they learn at these jobs? Why would they waste their own opportunity of living in a wealthy economy just to do a job that someone without education and far lower costs can do?
These jobs are temporarily, the next generation won’t do those. Then the factories move again to another poor country.
Which is a good thing. This is how we develop the whole world.
When the whole world is developed, there will be no need for such braindead jobs.
If you need tariffs to get those jobs at your location, you’re just being inefficient.
But that’s economically. Can’t trust other countries until we’re all more united. And the current era is not making that look promising.
Which is why, generally, taxing wealth and having the state invest it in supportive infrastructure and subsidising is the preferred option for developed economies that want manufacturing (back).
Sweeping, protectionist tariffs are usually a painful measure of necessity, if you have an economy without any developed industrial or service sectors, where initial investments are basically impossible due there being no taxable wealth and no market incentives, because of global players always being more profitable and cheaper, than any beginning industry that has to go through growth processes and learning experiences. (More selective tariffs or outright import/export bans of course also have their place for a multitude of political reasons, e.g. the EU not wanting a lot of artificially cheap and lower-health-standards US meat)
Playing the long game bro. Things gonna be so dope in the US in 50 years. We will be an isolated Arian labor economy breathing in pure sulfur and working in factories to produce goods for oligarchs on their yachts.
FYI “Aryan” is the word you’re looking for. “Arian” is an early Christian sect decried as heretical in the later Roman Empire
I mean, if you’ve ever been in an american factory, this is pretty much what 90% of them look like. No need for lame AI.
Yeah I don’t think Cheeto and Elmo will see it the same. They’ll see this and think that this is awesome, this could be the American plebs slaving away to make wealth for the rich few, this is great!
Honestly I’m having a hard time “getting” this as a dig.
This looks like a lot of typical, existing midwest industrial work we already have in the US, with typical miserable midwesterners. I mean, we don’t do it on the same scale as China, but this isn’t some alien world being portrayed here. I’ve worked in places like this.
China trolls Trump with…
Oh damn
Chinese social media users
Eh.
The 2nd half of the article also mentions an AI generated song released by China’s state run media.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/-Liberation-Day-or-a-price-to-pay--1CgrB0bz7by/index.html
