White House Starts TikTok Account Ahead Of App's Looming Ban
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Trump relied on the app during the 2024 election even though at one point he wanted it banned.
The White House launched a TikTok account Tuesday, just weeks before the deadline President Donald Trump gave the app to sell to a non-Chinese-owned company or face a ban in the United States.
The account’s first video shows clips of Trump at different events, and the video’s narration seemingly comes from Trump’s 2016 Republican National Convention speech in which in part he says, “Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation. I am your voice.”
Another video is a montage of Trumpisms, like when he said, “I was the hunted, and now I’m the hunter” or, “Everything’s computer” when checking out a Tesla. Other clips show him dancing to “YMCA” by the Village People.
In June, Trump signed an executive order to delay the mandatory sale of TikTok another 90 days, his third time changing the deadline. The first delay was his first day in office. TikTok went dark in the United States for a few hours; when users had access to it again, a message appeared thanking Trump for the deadline delay.
Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok in the United States, saying in 2020 it was a national security concern because the app shares data with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. However, ahead of last year’s election, Trump flipped his stance, calling TikTok a “unique medium for freedom of expression.”
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