>"US gov shoots down Chinese little girl science project"

"Cool balloon Mei, want to bring it to the White House?"

And then they it turns out they just bought the balloon from like Alibaba and painted it or something?

I believe they are referencing Former President Barak Obama's tweet.

>Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

https://twitter.com/POTUS44/status/644193755814342656

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440890750...

I just looked up the conclusion of that. So awful. His whole family ended up moving to Qatar because of harassment.

Moving to Qatar is a very common response to harassment and a failed lawsuit against local government for $15M

It’s quite likely that was an extension of the joke, the repurposing of a comercial off the shelf item that already does the job the young inventor set out to do.

A nice idea, but the size of three double decker buses??