AI-generated videos depicting Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk as factory workers have gone viral on social media.
The video shows the US President, Vice President and Tesla CEO working on a production line in an apparent dig at the White House’s attempt to revive American manufacturing.
Chinese accounts have been promoting the video amid an increasingly bitter trade war between Washington and Beijing.
AI-Generated videos depicting MAGA supporters - including Trump himself - working in warehouses sewing and manufacturing are going viral after the trade war between Beijing and Washington kicked off. pic.twitter.com/7L58XWnFGb
— Briefly (@Brieflybynewj) April 9, 2025
It comes after the US president's surprise announcement of a 90-day pause to hefty tariffs imposed on some countries brought respite to battered stock markets across the globe, including London's FTSE 100.
But Trump has kept the pressure on China, the world's No. 2 economy and second-biggest provider of US imports, by increasing tariffs on Chinese imports even higher to 145% in response to Beijing's own 84% counter-tariffs.
China has rejected what it calls threats and blackmail from Washington.
Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yongqian told a regular press briefing on Thursday that China's door was open to dialogue, but this must be based on mutual respect.
Beijing may again respond in kind after already imposing 84% tariffs on US imports on Wednesday to match Trump's earlier salvo.
Trump, who claims the tariffs aim to fix US trade imbalances, said at Thursday's Cabinet meeting that he thinks the US and China will work out "something that's very good for both countries."
China's yuan hit its lowest level against the dollar on Thursday since the global financial crisis.
Last week, China's state-run media shared AI-generated videos featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers to mock Trump over his tariffs.
"'Liberation Day', you promised us the stars. But tariffs killed our cheap Chinese cars," an automated female voice sang in a video of China’s CGTN, a state-run English language broadcaster, over a shot of a woman at a kitchen table staring at an empty fork.
