Donald Trump creates an account on TikTok, the application he wanted to ban when he was president of the United States

To reach out to younger voters as he seeks re-election in November against Democratic President Joe BidenTrump posted a 13-second clip on Saturday night showing him in his usual blue suit and red tie attending a fight of the popular Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in Newark, New Jersey.

In the video, recorded to blaring music, Trump is introduced by UFC CEO Dana White and leans toward the camera saying, “I’m honored.”
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Trump greets the people present in the stands of the UFC stadium and concludes the clip by saying: “That was a good walk, right?”

Until noon on Sunday, The former president already had two million followers on his @realDonaldTrump network account.

While in power (2017-2021), Trump attempted to ban TikTok on national security grounds with an executive order, but the effort stalled in court when a federal judge questioned how the move would affect the platform’s free speech and blocked it. the decision.
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In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law approving a ban on TikTok in the United States if its Chinese owner, Bytedance, fails to find a local buyer for the app within a year.

The US government and legislators have expressed their concern that China’s government will use TikTok to collect personal data from local users for other purposes harmful to the United States.

The Biden campaign also joined TikTok this year, which has more than 170 million users in the United States.
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Former US President Donald Trump assured in an interview broadcast this Sunday on Fox News that he is not afraid of a sentence of house arrest or probation, after having been found guilty of 34 crimes of document falsification to hide payments to a porn actress for her silence. : “I’m OK with whatever,” he said.

The president was interviewed for more than an hour for the morning show Fox and Friends and assured that He is not afraid of the sentence that New York judge Juan Merchan will read on July 11, after a popular jury found him guilty on Thursday of all charges of falsification of commercial documents in 2016 with the intention of influencing the electoral process that took him to the White House.
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“These people are sick; they are disturbed. We talk about the external enemy and the internal enemy. You have China or Russia, but if you are an intelligent president you can easily manage them. But the internal enemy is doing a lot of damage to our country. They want open borders , high interest rates and quadrupling taxes,” said Trump, who will be sentenced a few days before being confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate at his party’s convention.

In the interview, which was recorded Saturday, Trump declined to confirm whether he will stand by his refusal to use the Justice Department to attack political rivals.

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“The Republican party has to stay together in this case. They have seen what the instrumentalization of the Department of Justice and the FBI is. That comes from Washington,” said Trump, who this Saturday took part in a crowd bath at a UFC fight. in New Jersey.

“This instrumentalization is something very dangerous. We have never had it in our country. It happens in other countries, in South American countries”he pointed.

When asked what message he has for Hispanics in the United States who consider that the country is suffering from the problems of judicial independence experienced by the nations they left behind, Trump responded that Hispanics support him and understand him.

“They are good people; entrepreneurial and with great energy. (Hispanics) have always liked me and I have always liked them. I have had good results with them. In 2016, I won the entire Texas border (with Mexico),” he said. Trump.