{"id":80067,"date":"2024-06-02T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/trump-takes-off-on-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:36:37","slug":"trump-takes-off-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/trump-takes-off-on-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes off on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s TikTok account, which launched on Saturday night, features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@realdonaldtrump\/video\/7375744699140721963\">just one post<\/a> as of publication time on Sunday morning. In the video, UFC CEO Dana White declares, \u201cThe President is now on TikTok,\u201d then Trump chimes in to say, \u201cIt\u2019s my honor.\u201d The rest of the video consists largely of footage showing Trump walking among the crowd at a UFC event in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video has apparently been viewed more than 31 million times, while Trump has already amassed 1.7 million followers \u2014 more than 5x the followers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bidenhq?lang=en\">the Biden-Harris account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPolitical candidate creates social media account\u201d would not normally be big news, but the Trump campaign\u2019s move is a reminder that even as TikTok faces an uncertain future in the United States, politicians remain eager to reach its 170 million US users. The platform could be particularly valuable for Trump, who appears to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/24\/upshot\/trump-biden-polls-voters.html\">made inroads among younger, disengaged voters<\/a> \u2014 the kind of voter who might be on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s position on TikTok has seemingly reversed \u2014 after trying to ban TikTok while he was president, he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112412531049777512\">posted on Truth Social<\/a> in May, \u201cJust so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.\u201d (Biden recently signed a bill that will ban TikTok if its parent company ByteDance fails to sell the app within a year; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/07\/tiktok-sues-the-us-government-over-law-seeking-to-ban-app\/\">TikTok is fighting the bill in court<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Trump\u2019s old adviser Steve Bannon has accused the former president of flip-flopping due to the influence of billionaire Jeff Yass (who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/256a45c3-8c78-4448-9dbe-8382c0788457\">owns a major stake in TikTok<\/a>), Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-says-tiktok-national-security-threat-facebook-enemy-people-rcna142733\">insisted<\/a> that banning TikTok would only strengthen Facebook, which he describes as an \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, joining TikTok and attracting over 1 million followers is still just a footnote in Trump\u2019s big week \u2014 one where he became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/30\/nyregion\/trump-convicted-hush-money-trial.html\">the first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/06\/02\/trump-takes-off-on-tiktok\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. 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