Posted on 03/08/2024 9:07:11 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Former President Trump signaled his opposition Thursday to legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. despite his previous support for banning the social media app.
In a post on Truth Social, the former president claimed a TikTok ban would benefit Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who serves as CEO of its parent company, Meta.
“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump said. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”
Facebook banned Trump in January 2021 in the wake of the Capitol riots, during which hundreds of his supporters attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election results.
The former president spent months spreading false claims about the election on social media in the lead-up to the insurrection.
Meta reinstated Trump last year.
The legislation Trump criticized, which the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously advanced Thursday, would require TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from the app or face a U.S. ban.
When Trump was in office in 2020, he vowed to ban the video-based social media app from operating in the U.S. and issued an order calling on ByteDance to divest from TikTok’s U.S. operations. However, the order was later blocked in court.
As TikTok has grown in popularity in recent years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have becoming increasingly concerned about the data privacy and national security risks posed by the app.
The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” that advanced out of the House committee on Thursday was introduced just two days earlier with more than a dozen bipartisan co-sponsors.
The White House, which has previously supported efforts to give the president the power to ban TikTok, called the legislation a “welcome step” on Wednesday.
“The Administration has worked with Members of Congress from both parties to arrive at a durable legislative solution that would address the threat of technology services operating in the United States in a way that poses risks to Americans’ sensitive data and our broader national security,” a National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement.
“This bill is an important and welcome step to address that threat,” they added.
TikTok has been fiercely opposed to the latest effort, calling it “an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it” and urging users to call Congress and oppose the legislation.
You’d be surprised how much Pro-Trump and MAGA stuff is posted these days.
ban everyyhing except youtube. why? MOST TIMES, postings are not produced by idiots ( including myself)!
There are not “places for adults to aggregate and pair off for AHEM whatever they are doing”.
Lastly, there are plenty of channels for all the political, spiritual, sports-indoor and outdoor, and handiworks that anyone might wish, and, as many things of nature and the Earth.
So pro-Trump Chinese-inspired propaganda earns Tik-Tok a reprieve from Trump?
Tik-Tok & Temu. Both are communist spyware. Come on Trump.
nevertrumper spinning things agaiin.
Trump is not stating opposition to a ban on tiktok, he’s making a statement.
The complete statement:
“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112058087970558736
Trump didn’t say he opposed banning tiktok, he says he doesn’t want zuckerberg to get more powerful and influence the election.
Just more lies and mis-representations from those that want to kill support for Trump
That’s absurd.
He could go after Facebook WITHOUT mentioning that a TikTok ban would do benefit Zuckerberg.
Do you truly believe that context means nothing?
....TikTok is an insidious Chinese threat....
You’re right! Ban TikTok!
Sure I checked the context....
and your history, as I thought you were anti Trump....
and by your history, that’s right.
Just more lies and mis-representations from those that want to kill support for Trump
Just more cogitative dissonance and willful blindness from the Trump cult when reality slaps them in the face.
A lot of it is posted on TikTok. Stuff like that is banned on Facebook/Instagram because it's Zuckerberg's plantation.
I’m here on 3/10. 12 replies. You can see how EverTrumpers want to ignore the hypocrisy and often liberal stances of Trump. See no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil. I just think of the monkeys with the hands on the eyes.
“Trump is not stating opposition to a ban on tiktok, he’s making a statement.”
Interesting he gives his support to TikTok and does not call the CCP the enemy.
-———————Trump—————
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,”
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