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yaqubroliyesterday at 6:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

“Orange santa” in Chinese would be pretty unwieldy as a nickname. “橙黄圣诞老人” is 6 syllables.

But there has been a meme in China for ages that Trump is secretly a Chinese guy named “Chuan Jianguo” (Jianguo means “building the nation”) who was sent by China to destroy America from within.


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aseippyesterday at 6:14 PM

There was a good tweet after election day where someone wrote that a Chinese classmate was talking about their religious father in Beijing, who thought that Trump was chosen by God to win the election -- but only as part of a larger divine plan to destroy America. Pretty funny, to be honest.

kakacikyesterday at 6:53 PM

Agent Krasnov, now this, there seems to be competition for whom that guy is fucking up US more.

Although answer is probably simplest - for himself and his ego.

I cant imagine the mental gymnastic any half decent republican must be going through daily to keep avoiding utter debiliating shame for voting him when doing the proverbial look in the mirror.