The White Home now has a TikTok account

The White Home has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wished to ban throughout his first time period. Its first post exhibits clips of Trump in numerous occasions with Kendrick Lamar’s monitor enjoying within the background. The New York Times notes that it references a preferred video edit of Creed, a boxing film starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. Within the TikTok put up, Trump may very well be heard saying “I’m your voice,” whereas the caption reads “America we’re BACK! What’s up TikTok?”

Trump’s administration believes TikTok helped him win over younger voters within the 2024 Presidential election, with the account he used to marketing campaign having over 15 million followers. “President Trump’s message dominated TikTok throughout his presidential marketing campaign, and we’re excited to construct upon these successes and talk in a means no different administration has earlier than,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

The president wasn’t at all times keen on the platform. He as soon as vowed to ban the app in the US and signed an executive order to outlaw any transaction between the app and its China-based guardian firm ByteDance for nationwide safety causes. TikTok’s “knowledge assortment threatens to permit the Chinese language Communist Occasion entry to Individuals’ private and proprietary data — probably permitting China to trace the areas of Federal staff and contractors, construct dossiers of non-public data for blackmail, and conduct company espionage,” the executive order read.

After taking workplace earlier this 12 months, nonetheless, Trump rapidly put a pause on the legislation that was imagined to ban TikTok within the US. He even delayed the ban a couple more times to present ByteDance extra time to promote its US enterprise. Trump beforehand claimed {that a} “very rich” group is poised to purchase TikTok, however the administration has but to disclose the identities of the folks in it.