The White House Now Has A Tiktok Account

The White House has joined TikTok, nan societal media app that President Trump wanted to prohibition during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump successful various events pinch Kendrick Lamar's way playing successful nan background. The New York Times notes that it references a celebrated video edit of Creed, a boxing movie starring Michael B. Jordan, connected nan app. In nan TikTok post, Trump could beryllium heard saying "I americium your voice," while nan caption sounds "America we are BACK! What's up TikTok?"

Trump's management believes TikTok helped him triumph complete young voters successful nan 2024 Presidential election, pinch nan relationship he utilized to run having complete 15 cardinal followers. "President Trump's connection dominated TikTok during his statesmanlike campaign, and we're excited to build upon those successes and pass successful a measurement nary different management has before," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement.

The president wasn't ever fond of nan platform. He erstwhile vowed to ban nan app successful nan US and signed an executive order to outlaw immoderate transaction betwixt nan app and its China-based genitor institution ByteDance for nationalist information reasons. TikTok's "data postulation threatens to let nan Chinese Communist Party entree to Americans' individual and proprietary accusation — perchance allowing China to way nan locations of Federal labor and contractors, build dossiers of individual accusation for blackmail, and behaviour firm espionage," nan executive bid read.

After taking agency earlier this year, however, Trump quickly put a pause connected nan rule that was expected to prohibition TikTok successful nan US. He moreover delayed nan prohibition a couple much times to springiness ByteDance much clip to waste its US business. Trump antecedently claimed that a "very wealthy" group is poised to bargain TikTok, but nan management has yet to uncover nan identities of nan group successful it.