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A new AI-generated video believed to have been created by a Chinese TikToker depicts a depressing America under Donald Trump's tariffs. The video shows morbidly obese Americans in sweatshops and factories performing low-skilled labor work with somber Chinese music playing in the background. Each 'American' in the video looks depressed and exhausted by the amount of labor - feeding into many stereotypes about the nation's work ethic.
The clip fades out by taking a shot at Trump's campaign slogan, showing 'Make America Great Again.' The 32-second clip focuses on the stereotypical manufacturing jobs that have moved overseas in the last few decades, but could be return to US soil amid Trump's tariff frenzy. Insults like this viral video have started spreading online amid the tit-for-tat tariff fight between Washington and Beijing, with both sides threatening the other with stiff fees on imported goods in recent days.
Along with the retaliatory tariffs, a war of words has broken out after US Vice President JD Vance claimed China's economy was fueled by 'peasants' during an interview with Fox News last week. The humiliating video mocking Americans was posted by a TikTok user named Ben Lau on Monday. A viral TikTok meme using AI-generated 'Americans' mocked the US government's desire to bring manufacturing jobs back to American soil To this point, Lau's TikTok has been fairly unused, with only 1,000 followers and three other videos posted.
One X user reposted the inflammatory video and it's already been viewed more than five million times. 'Low skilled manufacturing will..
. Chris Melore.
