Although during the last year of his presidential term he tried to ban the application because he considered that they were carrying out espionage, the former president and current presidential candidate donald trump He created a TikTok account and posted his first video last Sunday.
The differences between the platform and the former president reached a climax in 2020, the last year of his presidency, in which he exhausted all possible avenues to ban it in the United States, accusing it of espionage, because the application comes from China. Looking ahead to the next general elections on November 5, The situation changed and Trump took a different position.
Accompanied by the director of UFC, Dana White, the businessman appeared in his first video on the platform, in a new strategy that seeks to attract young voters. “The president is now on TikTok,” White said, to which Trump responded: “It’s my honor.” Under the images, the former president wrote: “Launching my TikTok at UFC 302”.
In the published video you can observe Trump’s entrance to the greetings of the public and then the photographs he took with different fans, in the preview of the main event between the champion Islam Makhachev and the challenger, Dustin Poirier. “That was a good ride,” he commented at the end of the images.
Under the name @realdonaldtrump, The former president’s user quickly accumulated almost 5,000,000 followers, with 5,000,000 likes in his first video, more than 78,000,000 views and 200,000 comments, two days after its publication.
Trump’s attempt to ban TikTok in the United States
In his last year of presidency, Trump issued an executive order for national security reasons in which banned the platform in the countrybut a federal judge threw out the measure, arguing that it would eliminate free speech rights from the app.
Although the businessman was defeated at the polls by Biden in 2020, TikTok again suffered a setback from the White House later, when the Democrat this year forced the application to divest its shares in the country and sell them to a local buyer.
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