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Trump joins TikTok years after trying to ban the app
NBC News ^ | June 2, 2024 | Megan Lebowitz

Posted on 06/02/2024 11:50:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Former President Donald Trump announced Saturday night that he has joined TikTok, even as many in his party criticize the popular app and call for its China-based parent company to divest.

Trump’s first post on the platform was a 13-second video, which appeared to be filmed at the UFC event in New Jersey he attended Saturday. In the first shot, Trump is joined by UFC President Dana White, who announces, “The president is now on TikTok.”

“It’s my honor,” Trump responds as the TikTok cuts to a montage of the former president greeting fans at the arena.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; commiespyware; propagandaapp; tiktok; trump
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1 posted on 06/02/2024 11:50:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Banning is a dumb idea. Blaming TikTok is like blaming a gun.


2 posted on 06/02/2024 11:52:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lots of young voters gonna see Trump being Trump for the first time!

Now known as Gangsta Trump!


3 posted on 06/02/2024 11:58:17 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: dfwgator

If the gun is held by the communist party of Chyna.


4 posted on 06/02/2024 12:12:19 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Mmogamer

Even if they did, so what? Do they ban Conservative content on TikTok?


5 posted on 06/02/2024 12:12:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

actually Trump has opposed the banning of Tik Tok in the recent past and said, “Facebook is probably worse”.


6 posted on 06/02/2024 12:16:23 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: MinorityRepublican
If you can't beat them, infiltrate them just as they have infiltrated us. Of course what we really need to do is infiltrate the app they use in their country which is a different entity, called Douyin.

But of course that is not possible, which is why Trump wanted control of Tik Tok.

But he is doing so now, to allow himself access to America's youth. A smart move if I say so myself.

7 posted on 06/02/2024 12:16:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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"Trump joins TikTok years after trying to ban the app"

.... Yup ... Like it or not, This is one of the only venues available for the conservative movement to reach the pop and new voter crowd. It's refreshing to see the Prez reaching outside of the usual Conservative Echo Chamber and beyond the usual stale social dwelling places of the Base.

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8 posted on 06/02/2024 12:19:16 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Can’t beat em join em. That goes for lawfare too.


9 posted on 06/02/2024 12:20:15 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: Robert DeLong

Speaking of infiltrating, why hasn’t the illegal border crossers been infiltrated to know who is directing them, and getting info from these millions coming here? I can’t believe the last 3 years no effort was made to get intel from infiltrating this group. It would be the perfect cover, so why aren’t we hearing of any chatter going on like we heard from terrorist orgs like Al Quaida, the Taliban and ISIS?


10 posted on 06/02/2024 12:20:17 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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But of course that is not possible, which is why Trump wanted control of Tik Tok.

Trump learned from his mistakes. Deep State gave him bad advice. Now he sees that there's no good reason to ban TikTok.

11 posted on 06/02/2024 12:20:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TermLimits4All

Can’t beat em join em.


An approach we need to take a lot more often.


12 posted on 06/02/2024 12:22:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ikemeister

Spot on he said it a few times


13 posted on 06/02/2024 12:22:41 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MinorityRepublican

If it exists use it to your benefit. All is fare in Love, War and Politics.


14 posted on 06/02/2024 12:25:34 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell)
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To: Mmogamer
If the gun is held by the communist party of Chyna.

According to the narrative by the Deep State.

15 posted on 06/02/2024 12:25:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Could be the case. I hadn’t thought it from that point of view.👍


16 posted on 06/02/2024 12:31:49 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tiktok absolutely should he banned... eventually.

No foreign power should have such an ability to coerce, manipulate and hypnotize our population, particularly our youth, like the chicoms do.

No domestic power either... Google, openAI, Microsoft, Facebook, all them should be subject to the same scruitiny and legislation should restrict their activities if they are trampling on our rights, especially if they are doing so as part of some sort of government operation.


17 posted on 06/02/2024 12:33:58 PM PDT by jz638
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To: jz638
No foreign power should have such an ability to coerce, manipulate and hypnotize our population, particularly our youth, like the chicoms do.

How does China do that with TikTok? Isn't it basically just people posting videos, does it limit videos to those videos that have a certain viewpoint, like YouTube does?

18 posted on 06/02/2024 12:35:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’ll get many a vote from tik tok this is good.


19 posted on 06/02/2024 12:37:02 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: Blue Highway

We know that already. It is you & I that are facilitating their illegal entry, because our tax dollars are being given to NGOs, by traitors from within who are in control via the Biden Administration & the stolen 2020 election for Obama’s third term, to help them reach our borers. I guess I was wrong to assume everyone knew this by now. But now you know.


20 posted on 06/02/2024 12:40:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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