When I saw Chinese Trump impersonator Ryan Chen (Chinese: Chen Rui) on TikTok, I thought it was dubbed—the speech patterns, the mannerisms, the occasional malapropisms were just that good. He has hundreds of videos. In addition to that first link, here are a few favorites:

• Let’s Make Content Creating Great Again
• “Interviewing” Dutch sci-fi author Roderick Leeuwenhart
• I’m Back, Let’s Celebrate, with dancing
• Soup

Lastly, here’s Chen in his “natural” English voice.

Via a write-up about Chen by Andrew Higgins in The New York Times (gift link), who notes:

Ryan Chen has never set foot in the United States. He learned English at high school in the western Chinese city of Chongqing and from watching pirated versions of “Friends,” “Two and a Half Men” and other sitcoms in college.

This bit caught my attention:

Chinese law bans the commercial use of the names and images of party leaders, a rule that landed a Mao Zedong impersonator in trouble in 2018.

No doubt the real Donald Trump would approve.