Summary
Donald Trump called TikTok “worthless” and suggested he might not intervene to lift its nationwide ban, which took effect on January 19 over national security concerns about its Chinese ownership.
Previously, Trump had pledged to save TikTok, citing its role in his campaign’s social media success, but his latest remarks hinted at demands for U.S. ownership of the platform.
House Speaker Mike Johnson supported the ban, citing fears of Chinese influence on TikTok’s algorithms.
Bidding war. Zuckerberg paid more.
Your move China.
Check bounced? Nah he got the check and it cleared and the world’s tiniest gear spun in his head and he thought “what if 2 checks?!?!!?”.
A platform that probably helped him a lot becoming the president. How ironic.
Imagine having your entire business plans hanging on the whims of this orange dickhead.
I suspect it’s a share price influencing game with some of his pals.
Guess they didn’t donate enough to his inauguration fund.
Man, I really hope he does the double-flipflop on this and bans it again. Because Tiktok pulled the stunt this weekend to kiss his ass, blocking the app preemptively for the USA and crediting Trump with “saving” it with the popup message. This would be most disruptive to the propaganda pushers on both sides of the globe, and piss off the most people against them.
it amuses me that people expect anything else from his presidency. it will be a “highest bidder wins” war.
u-turning so fast he’s basically drifting in circles.
Did someone say donuts?!
I think you’re on to something…
I think you’re on
tosomething…FTFY 😁
“The Weave” lol
Isn’t the ‘weave’ the mop of hairsprayed fiber on top of Trump’s head?
Assuming you’re serious, its what he describes how he wanders one topic to another when asked about a plain fact. if not serious, yes, absolutely. Greatest weave in all the lands of the gulf of america
I hope Mexico retaliates by renaming Baja California
Could just rename Mexico to Great America
Trump holds no convictions outside filling his ego hole. He will go with whatever the most influential person that talked to him last. His u-turn here doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
It will be especially funny because they have had a lot more conservative type join as well, and based off everyone complaining about their “algorithm” it seems like those types are enjoying themselves…
“Donald Trump says dumb fucking thing after other dumb fucking contradictory thing”
The Onion should just print this headline every day for the next 4 years.
Nah, that’s too realistic for The Onion. It needs to be something like, ‘Pandemonium Ensues After Trump Utters First Coherent Sentence.’
And this strategy works for him just fine. People who like him will believe the thing they want to hear and some of the people who would have opposed him will be confused and delay action because they think maybe it’s just going to work out and they should focus elsewhere.
Did the check not clear?
Meta dropped a bigger check maybe.
Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.
Probably did. Could easily be a grifter move to dupe them into writing another check. Suckers.
Lol…
I’m getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it’s only day two.
This is leverage, nothing more. He has every intention of saving it. He’s just going to make sure that he gets his cut and assurances that any anti-Trump videos be scrubbed and any searches return no results. And he wants to make sure they continue to do what he wants, when he wants, and the way he wants by literally hanging a potential ban over their heads that he can sign into effect by EO at the stroke of his favorite sharpie.
It is literally a Mafia protection racket on steroids.
I disagree. Trump and Musk own competitors to TokTok.
They are not going to hurt themselves in order to help a Chinese competitor.
Also, they are now in the ones in charge AND the Chinese government is actually using TikTok to spy on THEM.
The irony of trump saving it only to make it considerably more dangerous for American stability when it was originally banned because it was dangerous for no explained reason. A tiktok that caters to trump should be banned, but doing so is the only way not to be and well “corporations gonna corporate”.
I was sticking with rednote anyway.
spoiler
Even if this were psy-ops… this is how you write psy-ops, goddamn
Are we the psy-op going to chinese social media and humanizing Americans or are they the psy-op by acting human when the Americans show up?
If it’s the first, where’s my check? If it’s the second, congrats to my chinese spy on landing the easiest job in the world.
I was sticking to not joining social media owned by people who want to make profit with my info…
Did tiktok not offer to kiss his ass or pay him tribute like all the other companies?
i think zuckerberg kissed his ass harder and more affectionately than tiktok did
They’re not letting him have a cut of the company cake.
He logged in and instead of seeing people praising him, he saw people continue to mock him and call him a dumb, fascist, piece of shit.
