--- title: Fake Donald Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China description: In China, internet users are embracing “alternative tweets” to mock Donald Trump’s infamous social media presence. canonical: https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T14:50:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:50:54.531Z article:section: Politics og:title: Fake Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China og:description: More than 1 million 'tweets' were created in four days og:url: https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5b4d0a2551e1a03/6988b757fb4eacd0ce8908d0/donald-trump-us-president-china-tweets-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4679 og:image:height: 2632 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-HOMELAND SECURITY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fake Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China twitter:description: More than 1 million 'tweets' were created in four days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5b4d0a2551e1a03/6988b757fb4eacd0ce8908d0/donald-trump-us-president-china-tweets-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fake Donald Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China > Sponsored content. 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NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Jan 26, 2017 2:50 PM UTC In the United States, President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link1)’s administration is taking heat for its use of the term [“alternative facts,”](http://time.com/4642689/kellyanne-conway-sean-spicer-donald-trump-alternative-facts/?iid=sr-link1) but in China, internet users are embracing “alternative tweets” to mock Trump’s infamous social media presence. A new Chinese website lets people create fake tweets that look like they were sent by Trump’s personal twitter account, the [Associated Press reports](http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/fake-donald-trump-tweets-are-the-new-internet-fad-in-china/). The tweet generator creates images featuring the @realDonaldTrump Twitter handle, the president’s avatar and an accurate time stamp. In just four days, users have created more than 1 million fake Trump tweets in Chinese and English, the company behind the website told the AP. Twitter is banned in China, but the AP reports the fake tweet images are spreading across Chinese social networking sites. Many of the fake tweets use [Trump’s tone](http://time.com/4589807/snl-donald-trump-twitter/?iid=sr-link10) and love for exclamation marks as users make jokes, sell products and send Lunar New Year greetings in the voice of America’s 45th president. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/"},"headline":"Fake Donald Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China","datePublished":"2017-01-26T14:50:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:50:54.531Z","description":"More than 1 million 'tweets' were created in four days","url":"https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Tech","twitter","China","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5b4d0a2551e1a03/6988b757fb4eacd0ce8908d0/donald-trump-us-president-china-tweets-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5b4d0a2551e1a03/6988b757fb4eacd0ce8908d0/donald-trump-us-president-china-tweets-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-HOMELAND SECURITY","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-HOMELAND SECURITY","creditText":"NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4650079/donald-trump-fake-tweets-china/","name":"Fake Donald Trump 'Tweets' Are Taking Over the Internet in China"}}]}] ```