President-elect Donald Trump hinted that he won’t ban TikTok due to his popularity on the app.
Trump’s first administration wrestled with a TikTok ban due to national security concerns, with the former president voicing support for the measure. His position has since vacillated, with a Truth Social post on Friday hinting that he would not ban it.
“Why would I want to get rid of TikTok?” Trump said, with an infographic illustrating his popularity on the app attached.
The infographic showed that Trump and his surrogate accounts garnered 3.8 billion views, greatly outnumbering his 2024 competitor, Vice President Kamala Harris, who garnered just 1.3 billion views.
According to the infographic, Trump’s surrogate account, @teamtrump, garnered an average of over eight times more views per post on TikTok than Instagram. Trump’s personal account garnered an average of five times more views per post on TikTok than Instagram.
The #trump received 36 billion views, while the average post on Trump’s account on TikTok received 24 million views.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift received just 251 million views, and Beyonce 131 million.
Trump recently appealed to the Supreme Court to delay a law that would effectively ban TikTok with a Jan. 19 deadline. Trump’s nominee for solicitor general, John Sauer, said the deadline should be pushed back so the new president could have an input.
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“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns,” he wrote.
The president-elect has faced rare pushback from within the GOP over the move.
