Posted on 08/19/2025 6:46:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned platform to operate in the US despite a law requiring its sale.
“America we are BACK! What’s up TikTok?” read a caption on the account’s first post, a 27-second clip, on the popular video-sharing app.
The account had about 4,500 followers an hour after posting the video. Trump’s personal account on TikTok meanwhile has 110.1 million followers, though his last post was on 5 November 2024 – election day.
Trump has a soft spot for the popular app, crediting it with helping him gain support among young voters when he defeated Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, in the November 2024 presidential election.
“The Trump administration is committed to communicating the historic successes President Trump has delivered to the American people with as many audiences and platforms as possible,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said as the account went live.
A federal law requiring TikTok’s sale or a ban on national security grounds was due to take effect the day before Trump’s inauguration on 20 January.
But the Republican president, whose 2024 election campaign relied heavily on social media and who has said he is fond of TikTok, put the ban on pause.
TikTok is a tremendously popular social media app with 170 million users in the US. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, said in April that it had been in discussion with the US government regarding a solution for the app. It added that any agreement “will be subject to approval under Chinese law”.
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Tik Tok is an abomination, and anything Trump-adjacent should stay far away. Chinese spies.
We currently have a ban that Congress passed and a potus signed. Trump is ignoring current law, if that matters anymore.
That’s possibly a signal that they cut a deal to keep it going here with some type of partial US ownership.
Tik Tok is an abomination
“Do you know why TikTok became so popular in the United States? Unlike Apple, Google, and Facebook, it is out of reach of Washington’s censors.”
Yep, TikTok is about the freest Free Speech platform out there. That is also why TikTok has more than its fair share of silly, weird, just wrong, and purulent, near pornographic material on it. It sort of goes with the Free Speech territory. That said, it is, in my opinion, also a big reason that Trump won re-election.
The Guardian is run by deluded leftist children. Nothing from them has any value.
Hahaha, TikTok
Trump: “I am your voice”
Bow down beotches
Yep. They are just trying to illustrate hypocrisy, which is the “cardinal sin” of Leftists, even though they are the grand masters.
I don’t care. We are $37 Trillion in Debt. Crime is out of control. Illegal Aliens saturate this country. Our military needs rebuilding. We have to stay out of Ukraine. We have to punish the weaponization of the government and intrusions on our personal freedoms.
Those are things I care about. Trump is trying to address those things. If he bans Tik Tok, fine. But I am not losing any sleep over it or surrendering a nano-smidgen of support or respect for Trump if he doesn’t ban Tik Tok.
FTA-—Tik Tok has 170 million users in the US. Is now
in discussion with the US govt.....“subject to approval under Chinese law”.
That’s crazy talk. TikTok aggressively moderates, deletes videos, shadow bans, and removes accounts.
https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines/en
What does this sound like to you:
“it is natural for people to have different opinions, but we seek to operate on a shared set of facts and reality. We do not allow misinformation that may cause significant harm to individuals or society, regardless of intent. We rely on independent fact-checking partners, guidance from public health authorities, and our database of previously fact-checked claims to help assess the accuracy of content.”
TikTok is not a free speech platform at all.
The last time I checked, the Chinese did not censor Trump on social media.
Hope they only use it on a burner phone or a segregated VM.
“We currently have a ban that Congress passed and a potus signed. Trump is ignoring current law, if that matters anymore.”
I think there’s still a month before the ban is supposed to take effect - what’s wrong with using what’s out there in the interim? Besides, are we even sure Biden actually signed it?
Your panties seem to be wadding up.
Tik tok is in play because Barron says it is, I think.
Tik Tok = Tracker
Bad guy finder open for business.
Twitter was terrible before Musk, Tik Tok has always been. terrible, and is getting worse.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/tiktok-bans-misgendering-deadnaming-trans-people-rcna15386
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