AI-generated videos depicting Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk as factory workers have gone viral on social media. The video shows the US President, Vice President and Tesla CEO working on a production line in an apparent dig at the White House’s attempt to revive American manufacturing.

His latest executive order directs the government to start using “beautiful, clean coal” to power AI data centers.

The evidence from the last time Trump imposed tariffs on trading partners, in 2018, shows no major increase in automation as a result. (Those tariffs did in fact lead to job losses in affected industries anyway, a Federal Reserve study found, due to higher production costs and reduced export competitiveness.)