President-elect Donald Trump, left, is shown meeting with President Joe Biden, in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Trump opposes the Biden administration plan to ban TikTok, despite initiating a similar push targeting the app owned by China's ByteDance in 2020.
Donald Trump initiated concrete plans to ban TikTok in mid-2020, during his first term as president. In early 2024, on his way to winning another election, he changed his stance. Here's a look at his statements regarding the Chinese-owned social media platform.Supreme Court justices posed tough questions to the lawyer representing TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, on Friday over a law that would force a sale or ban the widely used short-video app in the United States by Jan.
Trump acting as a TikTok saviour and Chew attending the inauguration are both scenarios that appeared unthinkable not long ago, as explained in this timeline:After Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly floats the idea of banning the TikTok app in the U.S., Trump soon confirms it's a possibility. U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, left, is shown meeting with President Joe Biden, in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Trump opposes the Biden administration plan to ban TikTok, despite initiating a similar push targeting the app owned by China's ByteDance in 2020. WATCH | CBC News coverage on president Trump moving to ban TikTok:U.S.
"Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after, and destroy, TIKTOK due to China influence and National Security," he says on Truth Social. "When I wanted to disable TIKTOK 3 years ago, I was met with opposition from RINOS to Democrats to everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me. Now they realize I was right, and have changed their tune.
That post comes after Biden's administration has signed legislation that sets a Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for TikTok to sell to an American company in order to continue operating in the U.S. Some reports suggest that Steve Mnuchin, former Trump treasury secretary, is assembling a group of investors to look into a TikTok acquisition.Any action on TikTok should wait for Trump to take office, they argue, while pointing out that Trump now has amassed 14.
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