After Twitter and Facebook kicked President Donald Trump off their platforms, and his supporters began comparing his social media muzzling to Chinese censorship, the president won support from an unexpected source: China.

"Legally he’s still the president. This is a coup,” said one comment, which included an expletive, that was liked 21,000 times on Weibo, the Chinese social media platform.

"A country as big as the United States can’t tolerate Trump’s mouth,” another popular comment said. "U.S. democracy has died.”