The Chinese are trolling the Trump administration.
A youtuber that used to make music videos of Parody about the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, produced “The Song of Maga”, a satire of President Trump’s vision for the United States.
A nationalist Tiktoker who enlarge the persecution of China’s uigures in Xinjiang made a video that mocked the use of vice president of the vice president JD Vance of the fashion -eyed eyeliner while demanding an apology for a comment that Mr. Vance had made about “Chinese peasants.”
In a publication on the Rednote social media platform, a video of Mr. Trump admiring a portrait of himself in the Department of Justice is accompanied by a song from North Korea, “The entire world sends us”, comparing it to the dictator Kim Il-Sung.
United for their disdain for the Trump administration, Chinese Internet users of different political views have created an impressive work collection. The images, videos and music, generated mainly by artificial intelligence, make fun of US leaders, so the Chinese believe they are ridiculous and scandalous policies.
The trolling reflects the changing perceptions of the United States in China. The Trump administration has provided rich material for the propagandists of the Communist Party; It has never been easier for Beijing to be on moral terrain. The Chinese of more liberal mentality, having overcome the initial shock in actions that reminded them of their own authoritarian government, are applying their creativity to Washington.
“I love the United States, but Trump has damaged American democracy and freedom, and harmed the image of the country on the international stage,” wrote the creator of “The Song of Maga” in a text message.
The music video generated by AI, based on a famous revolutionary song of the sixties, “We we we great road”, opens with characters that resemble Mr. Trump, Mr. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk with small red books in front of a large red flag that says: “Serve people.”
The letter goes:
We march on the wide road
High in spirit, strong in impulse every day
Directed by President Trump, we shout “Maga!”
Jury to make the United States again be great: Hurra!
In the video, the four men were represented marching in the manner of the Red Guards during the cultural revolution. The characters gathered iPhones, rode in scooters as Chinese blue collar workers and collected tomatoes like Chinese farmers under the scorching sun.
The creator of the video, who refused to reveal his identity to me for fear of compensation, assigned the four modest characters that millions of Chinese have to scrape. Trump’s character is a shoemaker. Mr. Rubio is a street seller who sells buns steamed. Mr. Vance sells products. Mr. Musk works on construction sites and, sitting on the sidewalk, sells socks and toys.
Mr. Vance has attracted the most brutal trolling. His comment from “peasants” offended many Chinese. In a video generated by the widely shared AI, a character that resembles Mr. Vance, with a pink jacket, pink nails and a strong pink lipstick, applies the eye eyeliner while saying in a promotional female tone, “sis, Hillbilly brand -eyed eyeliner, made in China, reliable quality.”
Another video shows a cartoon character that says: “Vice President Vance, I am a Chinese peasant. Do you realize that your tariff policy will lead to the high price of your eye eyeliner?”
There are so many publications on the subject that Mr. Vance is now known as “The Eyeliner Man” on Chinese Internet.
Mr. Trump makes fun of waiting for a call from Mr. XI, who is ghost, to make a commercial agreement. In an image generated by the widely shared AI, a character that resembles Trump is in a pink bed in a bedroom for pastel children. With his face resting on his hands, look at a smartphone. Behind him on the wall there is a great portrait of Mr. XI, smiling.
“Hahaha, who will call after a break?” He told a Weibo user with an Internet address in the northwest province of Gansu. “Trump, do you think you are filming a soap opera?”
There are reasons why the Chinese make fun of the four men. President Trump imposed 145 percent tariffs on Chinese products. Mr. Vance called the Chinese people “peasants.” Mr. Rubio is (or was) a well -known Falcon from China. Mr. Musk turned his influence with Mr. Trump into an official leading role in budget cuts in Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, whose programs influenced generations of Chinese. (On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked the administration of dismantling the transmission channels, and Musk said he would reduce his government work to spend more time with his electric car company, Tesla).
The four men are better for ridiculous because people there are less censorship restrictions to make fun of foreign leaders than their own. It reminds me of the Soviet joke that an American said he could stand in front of the White House and shout: “To the devil with Ronald Reagan,” to which a Russian replied: “That is nothing. I can stop in front of Kremlin and shout,” to hell with Ronald Reagan, “also.”
The censors seem to be in the trolling. When I tried to share with a small Wechat group an image of Mr. Trump, Vance and Musk working on a Nike assembly line, he failed to pass. Links to some of the images and videos I kept no longer work.
China’s strict censorship rules have helped the country’s internet users perfect their trolling experience. Ability is needed to simultaneously express the opinions that the Communist Party prohibits while evading the censors.
Mr. XI has been a favorite objective. His nicknames include Winnie The Pooh, for his physical similarity with the plump cartoon; “Baozi”, or Bun, for his advertising visit to a Bun restaurant at the beginning of his government; and “Mao II”, for his rebirth of some Maoist ideologies.
The national censor prohibited more than 35,000 sensitive words and combinations of words related to Mr. XI in 2016, according to China Digital Times, a media that focuses on censorship. In less than three months in 2020, Rednote, the social networks platform, compiled a list of 564 new sensitive words that refer to Mr. XI.
It is much safer to make fun of Mr. Trump.
A video blogger called Chen Rui has become a national phenomenon for its Trump supplantations.
From his frown eyebrows, his lips gathered and his head inclined, to the way he opens and closes his arms while he speaks, and his English intonation and accent, Mr. Chen is a maximum rate. It is known as the Chinese Trump.
He won some international fame after appearing in a recent live broadcast session with Chongqing’s YouTube influencer, Mr. Chen’s hometown in southwest China. He told Ishowspeed, whose name is Darren Watkins Jr., who would love to visit America one day.
Mr. Chen, whose alias online is Rui GE, has broad monitoring on social media platforms and does not talk about Chinese politics in his videos: he likes to show Chongqing and seems to enjoy doing food videos. But it often incorporates known Trump expressions, such as “you have no letters” and “you have not said ‘thanks'”.
In a video, while talking English, he told his mother after washing the dishes: “You are not thanking me. You will be better to be kind.” He continued: “Maybe tomorrow, I’m not going to wash the dishes. You don’t have letters.” Then he repeated it in Chinese.
His mother hit him with a bamboo scraper and shouted: “Do I have the cards now?”
The video title is “Mom has the cards.”
