The White House opened an official Tiktok account on Tuesday, even while President Donald Trump continues to allow the Chinese platform to operate in the US, despite the legislation that obliges his sale.
“America, we’re back! What’s on the basis of Tiktok?” Read a caption about the first message from the account on the popular app for sharing videos, a clip of 27 seconds.
The account had around 4,500 followers per hour after posting the video. The Trump report on Tiktok has now has 110.1 million followers, although his last post was on November 5, 2024 – election day.
Tiktok is owned by the China -based internet company Bytedance.
A federal law that required the sale or ban of Tiktok on national security grounds would take effect the day before the inauguration of Trump on January 20.
But the Republican, whose election campaign from 2024 was highly dependent on social media and he said that he loves Tiktok, put the ban on a break.
In mid-June, Trump expanded a deadline for the popular app for sharing videos to find a non-Chinese buyer or to be banned in the United States.
That expansion must end in mid -September.
Although Trump had long supported a ban or disinvestment, he reversed his position and promised to defend the platform – which has nearly two billion worldwide users – after he had started to believe that it helped him to win the support of young voters in the November elections.
Trump’s official account on X, formerly Twitter, has 108.5 million followers – although his favorite social media outlet is truth social, which he owns, where he has 10.6 million followers.
The official White House Accounts on X and Instagram have 2.4 million and 9.3 million followers respectively.
