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’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
Daddy, chill.
I stand corrected.
I thought tariffs were on imports only. Can there be export tariffs? Well, TIL.
And lol no. You can’t say that Trump is in power because of me. And so for assuming that much, I’ll say that this is why Trump won - because of pointless emotional reactions that cause division, like yours. So, let’s say we’re even.
Do consider that regardless of a tariff being export/import companies will generally pass the cost onto the consumer. So in general all tariffs are import tariffs by proxy.
I think it’s fair to say most people didn’t know shit about tarrifs until recently, then got told “no, tariffs are paid by the IMPORTER, not the exporting country”. The word “tariff” right now is assumed to mean “import tariff” as that’s how the word is commonly being used, so if you mean “export tariff” it may be a good idea to explicitly say it instead of getting upset when people don’t know what you mean.
trump himself has put a tariff of like 130% on those hats already.truly dngaf.
This is hilarious except that the factories aren’t here, and to every MAGAts’ surprise, they can’t appear overnight.
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.
It’s not quite to this level, but yeah. Being a sedentary worker like this makes it easier to become overweight or obese. It’s not just America, though, I’ve seen it in Mexico too, and I have no reason to believe Canada would be any different.
Another reason moving factory jobs here wouldn’t make any sense is that we don’t have universal healthcare so the employer has to pay the workers insurance costs.
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
Now we’re talking
Are they trying to say it’s inherently miserable to work in a factory? So let Chinese workers do it instead of Americans?
It shouldn’t be miserable to work in a factory. The overhead pneumatic drill shown towards the end is just like a drill I used when I worked in a factory one summer in Chicago. It was perfectly safe, and the people I worked with were well compensated. (I was not, because I was only 16.)
I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it’s always bad.
In 2019, when I visited a Chinese factory for work, the assembly line was tight enough that all the workers bumped elbows constantly. One person had a very loud compressed air tube to clean off components, and wore hearing protection and safety glasses. The person next to them had no hearing protection. Another person was testing blindingly bright LED shop lights, and wore sunglasses, but the people next to them had no protection. This would have been considered totally unsafe in the US.
I doubt much manufacturing will return to the US, but if it does, then even by 2025 standards it wouldn’t be as bad as in China. With OSHA gutted by the current Republican administration, it’s getting worse, but we still have more worker’s rights than workers in China.
I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it’s always bad.
Do you really think Trump won’t be shipping union organizers off to CECOT? “Next they came for the trade unionists,” after all.
Yes, I think he will (except the ones that fall over to threats, and give in to 47’s demands).
But that’s not the point. It’s possible to have a safe factory staffed by happy, well-paid workers. If it were actually true that manufacturing would return to the US as a result of the tariffs, that manufacturing shouldn’t be considered an inherently bad thing.
And the thing is, when magats talk about manufacturing, that’s what they’re envisioning.
That said, sewing is generally understood to be shit work in manufacturing
The black guy in the video just does not give a fuck.
I mean, what sort of a psychopath do you have to be to give a single fuck about working in manufacturing?
Yeah, he definitely has the right idea.
Mocking MAGA is fine with me, but fucking China was once the leader in obesity and cancer growth. I am uncertain if they still lead.
The goal is to use AI and robotics to bring manufacturing back, they never promise jobs so much as building it here. The wealthy classes don’t need you anymore like a horse after the car was invented.
