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China fuels trade war with AI-generated posts of Trump, Musk lacing up Nikes in a factory
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1:51Now PlayingChinese social media accounts are leaning into Beijing’s trade war with the US by putting out AI-generated posts of Americans clocking in for factory jobs — including one showing President Trump and Elon Musk on the production line for fresh pairs of Nike sneakers. NY Post politics reporter Josh Christenson shares this story.
Videos and memes boosted by Chinese media and posted by government officials are mocking Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan while displaying the expected higher price of goods either made in US-based facilities or imported there under punishing 125% tariffs.
Trump and Musk are sitting side by side wearing blue jumpsuits and working on the Nike shoes, while Vice President JD Vance pieces together an iPhone, sporting denim and a red hat conspicuously missing its MAGA letters, according to a compilation of the AI videos from a Chinese TV station’s account.
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