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.
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?!?!!?”.
Guess they didn’t donate enough to his inauguration fund.
After the pump, comes the dump.
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.
I’m getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it’s only day two.
Did tiktok not offer to kiss his ass or pay him tribute like all the other companies?
They’re not letting him have a cut of the company cake.
let me guess? Zuckerberg phoned him up and reminded him of all that lovely lobby money that had been shared around!
I was sticking with rednote anyway.
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Even if this were psy-ops… this is how you write psy-ops, goddamn
I was sticking to not joining social media owned by people who want to make profit with my info…
Did the check not clear?
Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.
Meta dropped a bigger check maybe.
Probably did. Could easily be a grifter move to dupe them into writing another check. Suckers.
What a capricious shit.
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.
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
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…
He’s talking big so that Tiktok sells their US operations to Elon. Then he gets to take credit as a deal maker.
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.
“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.
