Donald Trump is the first former president in the history of the United States convicted in a criminal case, but this title does not weigh on him enough to continue with his campaign to return to the White House. The businessman is determined to once again face Joe Biden, current president of the United States, and follows in his footsteps opening an account on the social network TikTok. Both politicians now upload videos of their campaigns, despite the fact that their administrations have been against the platform of Chinese origin.
Joe Biden joined in February of this year, after his administration ordered government agencies to remove TikTok from phones and other government-owned devices. Now Trump comes to the party; During his presidency, the Republican tried to ban the social network.
“The president is now on TikTok” and Trump replies: “It’s an honor.” Thus begins his first video for this platform where he appears greeting fans and posing for photos at the UFC event in Newark, New Jersey, this weekend. In just over 24 hours, the official account of Donald Trump already has more than 3 million followers.
A photo of him with his face painted with the country’s flag presides over his account, which he has called @realdonaldtrump and describes himself as “President Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States.”
“We will not leave any front defenseless and this represents the continued outreach to a younger audience that consumes pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to explain this change in position taking into account Trump’s policies during his presidency.
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In 2020 he issued a decree to ban the use of TikTok in the United States, alleging that this platform so popular among young people was a threat to national security. The company ByteDance, owner of the social network, appealed together with content creators and two federal judges annulled the measure that same year. But the political tensions between the United States and TikTok did not end there.
Its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, has faced scrutiny from the US Senate on several occasions with questions about its possible link to the Chinese Communist Party and other security details that the company has denied each time. As a measure to avoid these accusations and future bans, the social network has recently announced that it is preparing a copy of its application for this specific country with its own algorithm, thus it would operate independently of the version that arrives from China and that it will also be used in Europe.
