Trump, in reversal, opposes TikTok ban, calls Facebook "enemy of the people"

He may have led the initial charge to ban TikTok while in office, but former President Donald Trump, in a reversal, is now warning against banning the app, saying it would only empower Facebook, which he called the "enemy of the people."

"There's a lot of good and there's a lot of bad with TikTok, but the thing I don't like is that without TikTok, you're going to make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media," Trump said about the controversial app on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Monday morning. TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

"I'm not looking to make Facebook double the size," Trump added. "I think Facebook has been very bad for our country."