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2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread
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Trump, Who Famously Tried to Ban TikTok, Joins TikTok
Donald Trump once signed an executive order trying to ban TikTok in the U.S. Now he has joined the platform.
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Trump, Who Famously Tried to Ban TikTok, Joins TikTok
Donald Trump has already amassed nearly two million followers on the platform he once attempted to block in the U.S.BY PETER WADE
JUNE 2, 2024
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Donald Trump is officially on TikTok, an app he once tried to ban. The former president joined the China-based social media platform on Saturday night, posting a video of himself at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in New Jersey.
“The president is now on TikTok,” UFC CEO Dana White said into the camera while standing next to the candidate in the first video shared on Trump’s account.
“It’s my honor,” Trump said. With Kid Rock’s “American Badass” playing in the background, clips in the video show Trump in the UFC arena waving to fans as they cheered. Then, Trump said, “That was a good walk on, right?”
By noon on Sunday, the video had already reached more than 33 million views, and Trump gained just shy of two million followers. According to Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, the campaign will leave “no front undefended and this represents the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” he said in a statement.
While he may be embracing TikTok now, as president, Trump signed an executive order in 2020 that said “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned” by Chinese companies presented a threat to national security. TikTok sued and successfully blocked the order.
In April, Congress passed a bill Biden later signed that could effectively bar the app in the U.S. unless its owner, ByteDance, sells TikTok to an American company. The bill came to fruition out of fears that ByteDance may be trying to influence U.S. elections and could expose Americans’ data to China’s government. TikTok has filed suit to combat the legislation, claiming it violates the First Amendment.
“Congress has taken the unprecedented step of expressly singling out and banning TikTok: a vibrant online forum for protected speech and expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share, and view videos over the Internet,” the company wrote in the suit.
The federal government, including the F.B.I. and the Federal Communications Commission, has cautioned that Americans’ data held by ByteDance — including browsing habits, location history, and biometric information — could be shared with the Chinese government. TikTok has said it would not allow this to happen.
Even as recently as this past March, Trump has said that he believes TikTok presents a risk to national security. But, he has changed his mind about banning the app, saying it would only help Facebook, which he blames in part for his 2020 election loss.
“Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,” Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok. But the thing I don’t like is that without TikTok you’re going to make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”
Despite the president signing legislation to ban the app, Biden’s campaign is on TikTok. But the campaign has only 336,000 followers — far short of Trump’s personal account earning nearly two million and growing. Unlike Trump, Biden does not have a personal account on TikTok.
This article has been updated.
King Kreole
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Liberals are obsessed with finding any and every reason why something evil happening in America cannot possibly be representative of the true, deep character of this country. So they say it's...CHINA poisoning the minds of American youth through communist TikTok!...or...RUSSIA! brainwashing blue collar white folks into turning into MAGA zombies!...and now we're supposed to believe it's ARABS! ruining Joe Biden's rightful reelection by tricking him into giving bombs to Israel to drop on refugee camps!
Instead of cooking up conspiracy theories...maybe we just Occam's Razor it and come to the conclusion that America is fundamentally evil? Maybe the deep racism at the heart of Biden's response to this crisis and the deep racism at the heart of the MAGA movement is as American as apple pie? Not everything that harms the Democrats is a foreign plot, they can do bad all by themselves.
No where did I say that Isreael is right. Yes there should be a cease fire. Im also not dumb. I HAVE proven that there are Arabs running alt right accounts on twitter, this is a fact. Censored Men is one example. Palestinian supporters themselves have been calling it out:
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No where did I say that Isreael is right. Yes there should be a cease fire. Im also not dumb. I HAVE proven that there are Arabs running alt right accounts on twitter, this is a fact. Censored Men is one example. Palestinian supporters themselves have been calling it out:
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Censored men is a Lebanese guy who, like "syrian girl" has joined forces with the alt right and they've been using the atrocities in palestine to push their movements:x.com
@King Kreole Can you explain why Syrian girl (who is a LARGE pro palestine account on twitter) regularly rubs shoulders with Richard Spencer?x.com
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99.99999% of voters don’t even know these online characters.
So why bring them up? If you agree that a genocide and ethnic cleansing is taking place, then put the blame where it belongs. The Warlord and cheaply paid off bipartisan political class.
the cac mamba
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hopefully such independents can boost us past the pro-Hamas contingent
Those arent randoms my guy. A lot of those accounts that I posted were at the charlottesville "the jews will not replace us" protests. Many of them are also showing up to pro palestine protests as well. Many of them are working with general flynn on ways to overthrow the government in case Biden wins again. Yall REALLY inderestimate twitter, and its always black immigrants who do it too. Yall weird. Twitter is no longer just a social media app, ever since Elon bought it its been a porpaganda machine. All of the DEI attacks started on twitter, we just watched a whole Harvarrd president get fired because Chris Rufo posted her essay on twitter. We just watched Chris Rufo lunch his anti CRT attacks on twitter, LAY out the plan, then states followed suit and all banned CRT. Dont @ me again, yall "its just the internet" clowns are part of the reason why right wingers were able to infiltrate the BLM protests in 2020, as many of them laid out their plans on twitter as well.
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Guys just being contrarian. Taking the complete opposite stance they've held in the tik Tok.band and Elon musk threads.
Those arent randoms my guy. A lot of those accounts that I posted were at the charlottesville "the jews will not replace us" protests. Many of them are also showing up to pro palestine protests as well. Many of them are working with general flynn on ways to overthrow the government in case Biden wins again. Yall REALLY inderestimate twitter, and its always black immigrants who do it too. Yall weird. Twitter is no longer just a social media app, ever since Elon bought it its been a porpaganda machine. All of the DEI attacks started on twitter, we just watched a whole Harvarrd president get fired because Chris Rufo posted her essay on twitter. We just watched Chris Rufo lunch his anti CRT attacks on twitter, LAY out the plan, then states followed suit and all banned CRT. Dont @ me again, yall "its just the internet" clowns are part of the reason why right wingers were able to infiltrate the BLM protests in 2020, as many of them laid out their plans on twitter as well.
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You are all over the place. If you believe a genocide is taking place, then it’s clear who is setting policy.
This is not rocket science.
the cac mamba
Veteran
I just realized that you live in Canada, so fascists taking control of America wouldnt affect you. This explains why you dont care. I am anti israel and anti genocide, I'm also anti Trump and anti heritage foundation. Capiche?
the cac mamba
Veteran
it makes sense that a lot of these French Polynesian posters dont actually live here. you could see how they'd tend to get Lost
i'm all for calling out Netanyahu, but goddamn. how could you live in america, lean even remotely left, and be confused about this election
the cac mamba
Veteran
beautiful, pro-Gazan generals, to be sure. many people are strongly saying this, like no one's ever seen
Doesn’t Change the fact that you’re a first generation immigrant and in many ways it shows when you get confused about why black Americans who have been here for generations vote the way the do.
You constantly criticizing the black families that made it possible for you to even live here always strikes me as peculiar.
But I suppose it’s because you and your family actually never experienced a worse version of America.
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