The show — which begins with an appearance by an actor playing Trump’s daughter Ivanka — is based on a dream she has in which Trump has a fictional twin brother in China, Chuan Pu, whose name is a transliteration of Trump’s name in Chinese.
It traces the history of U.S.-China relations starting in 1972, when then-President Richard Nixon made his historic visit to Beijing that paved the way for the two countries to establish diplomatic relations. But in this version, a young Donald Trump was also in China as Nixon met with Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai.
Chuan Pu, disillusioned by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, makes his way to the U.S., where Trump is now president, hosting world leaders such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
At the White House, Ivanka Trump asks Chuan Pu to pose as her father at a rally in Pennsylvania because Trump has been kidnapped by aliens from Mars.
At that fateful rally, it is Chuan Pu, not Trump, who survives an assassination attempt as a bullet whizzes past his ear — although the rally ends quite differently than it did in real life.
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