Donald Trump Joins TikTok Former US President Donald Trump has joined the social network TikTok, which he once tried to ban. Trump, who is trying to run for the presidential election from the Republican Party, started posting videos by opening an account on Tiktok owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
Trump’s username on TikTok is @realdonaldtrump and his account name is ‘President Donald J Trump‘. His account has also been verified. He has also posted the first video from his account.
In that video, Trump can be seen greeting fans at the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Newark, New Jersey. By the time of preparing this news, his account has more than 576 thousand followers.
It is estimated that Trump resorted to TikTok to reach potential voters, especially the youth. But it was Trump who tried to ban TikTok in 2020 when he was president. His move was stopped by the court.
Similarly, he claimed that TikTok is a threat to national security and it will harm the youth. Even now, efforts to ban TikTok in the US continue. For this, on April 20, the US House of Representatives has already passed a bill that could ban TikTok.
President Joe Biden has also signed it. According to the law, ByteDance will have to hand over US data to TikTok by January 19, 2025, or sell its shares in the platform to avoid the ban.
But TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has already filed a case in the US Federal Court to avoid the US ban. In such an environment, Trump joining Tiktok is seen as meaningful.