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President Donald Trump falls in love with a White House cleaner, for whom he is determined to leave his wife—it’s the plot of a fake micro drama that supposedly took U.S. housewives by storm and raked in $203 million in revenue.
The micro drama, its supposed popularity, and its massive revenue, reported by multiple Chinese media outlets in late July, all turned out to be fake news. However, as viewers become increasingly obsessed with micro dramas, China experts told The Epoch Times, the mobile-first entertainment format has become a key propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to direct nationalist sentiment in China and to influence overseas viewers.
