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.
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.
“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
They should petition IUPAC to rename Americium to Mexiconium
Could just rename Mexico to Great America
America with Good Food.
Did someone say donuts?!
I think you’re on to something…
I think you’re on
tosomething…FTFY 😁
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 amuses me that people expect anything else from his presidency. it will be a “highest bidder wins” war.
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.
let me guess? Zuckerberg phoned him up and reminded him of all that lovely lobby money that had been shared around!
I’m getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it’s only day two.
Did the check not clear?
Probably did. Could easily be a grifter move to dupe them into writing another check. Suckers.
Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.
Meta dropped a bigger check maybe.
How does this lower the cost of my eggs?
You missunderstood. This ends the war in Ukraine
You can suck on Trump’s eggs for a million. Dale Huevo!!
By increasing the price of avocado toast and keeping eggs as they are now, eggs are essentially cheaper. Crisis solved!
free market dynamics.
you see, more people with eggs become financially desparate enough to sell their eggs to survive in this shithole country. this generlaly lowers the market value of those eggs.
the egg extraction process can be painfu… oh. nevermind.
I think it’s a threat to ensure that TikTok does what he says. Lots of reports (that I as an Australian can’t verify before it works for me) of searches for Trump incriminating videos are returning no results since it came back. It feels like there were conditions on not banning TikTok.
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.
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.
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 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.
Guess they didn’t donate enough to his inauguration fund.
He’s talking big so that Tiktok sells their US operations to Elon. Then he gets to take credit as a deal maker.
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.
i think zuckerberg kissed his ass harder and more affectionately than tiktok did
He meant that TikTok’s gratuities are worth less than Zuckerberg and Musk’s.
That was a strange video to listen to. He wants the US to own half… Like nationalizing the platform?
Obviously not like that, but wants it privately owned by his “American” cronies… like Elon
He wants his cut, like the mafia
To “wet his beak”
I don’t think he understands the difference between a government and a corporation. Like, he imagines the US is just his now. Just a big hotel, he can buy and sell bits of it to make money. Buy Greenland and Tiktok, sell Puerto Rico and the USS George Bush. Add a cover charge for Canada and Mexico.
To be fair, at this point there is barely any difference.
Interestingly, there were rumors that during those meetings in the article putin asked the oligarchs for half, but would provide protection, government subsidies,etc. So 50%, but more money then ever possible. Those that balked got thrown out a window.
Trump says US, but might really mean himself.
