{"id":28009,"date":"2024-06-03T04:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2024-06-03T04:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:20:53","slug":"trump-joins-tiktok-the-app-he-once-tried-to-ban-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28009","title":{"rendered":"Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban as president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former President Trump has joined TikTok, the embattled Chinese-owned social media platform that he once tried to ban during his years in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s first post on TikTok was a launch video on Saturday night on a verified account \u2013 @realDonaldTrump \u2013 showing him waving to fans at an Ultimate Fighting Championship\u2002<\/u><\/a>(UFC) fight in Newark, New Jersey, that he attended a couple of hours earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The president is now on TikTok,” UFC CEO and Trump friend Dana White said as he introduced the former president in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s my honor,” Trump responded in the video. The song “American Bad A–” by Kid Rock can be heard in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move appears to be an effort to connect with younger voters who frequent the app, as Trump faces off with President Biden<\/u><\/a> in the 2024 election rematch. The main super PAC supporting Trump, MAGA Inc., joined TikTok a couple of weeks ago. The site has roughly 170 million users in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app appears to be friendly ground for the former president, with roughly twice as many pro-Trump posts compared to pro-Biden posts on the site, according to recent reports from the New York Times and Puck, which cited internal analysis from TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign joined TikTok\u2002<\/u><\/a>in February, but the president signed a law in April forcing TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app within a year or face a ban in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, in 2020 during his last year as president, tried to ban the app in the U.S. market over national security concerns. His executive order was eventually blocked in federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump changed his mind this year, and came out in opposition to Biden’s potential ban on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some former top Trump advisers \u2013 including former senior adviser Kellyanne Conway and David Urban \u2013 have been speaking out in favor of TikTok on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, many Republicans continue to criticize the popular app and urge its Chinese-based parent company to divest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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