Over the weekend President-elect Donald Trump tweeted about his number one anti-BFF China, again, this time telling it to keep the US underwater drone it seized in the South China Sea even though the country said it'd return it.
(The US has the drone back now, so the Pentagon clearly disregarded Trump's advice.)
It was all set to be just another surreal tweet from Trump. And it would have been, if the Chinese internet didn't finally break its silence —
"Raise the national flag, play the national anthem," wrote user "the flower of the state."
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— by VPNing over to Twitter from Weibo and starting to spam his account.
"thanks and we take it with thankful," reads one tweet's English portion.
They thanked him for his intended Christmas gift...
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...and showed the president-elect just how much he'd given them a fright.
In an article published on Sunday, the Global Times, a state-run tabloid, suggested that prior to the election Chinese people considered Clinton to be the more anti-China president candidate.
That seems to have changed, the article notes, now that Trump is the president-elect. Trump's tweets, including accusing China to be a currency manipulator, threatening to impose a higher tax on China imports when he takes office, and touching the "most sensitive spot" of the country by talking to the Taiwanese leader, according to the article, "have angered many in China."
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It's true that any fandom that they had for him before he was elected was discarded.
"What material are you made of, you know the best yourself," reads this caption.
But the Chinese trolls gathered on the PEOTUS's Twitter seem to be...delighted. "You will be the first leader who govern the whole country through Twitter. Grow up, OK?"
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Some of the trolling tweets are, well, just weirdly pleasing to look at tbh.
Also: cats. Because this is the internet.
"That being the case, I'm still your father," reads the caption.
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Unmemeable subjects inside the country are suddenly fair ammunition in launching a meme war in the name of the country.
(Left to right) Xi Jinping: “isn’t being alive good?” Jiang Zeming: “Right?” Hu Jintao: “Why do you attempt to seek death?"
But they spared some sympathy (emphasis on "some") to the lame duck administration.
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Some specifically registered new accounts to troll him — "Old Don, I climbed across the firewall and came to Twitter specially for you! Don't you let me down, produce lots of jokes! I have faith in you!"
Others urged Trump to open an account on Weibo — the Chinese social platform that is the equivalent of Twitter — so that they can troll each other more easily, without the hassle of VPN.
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