White House launches official TikTok account with dramatic first post
The White House has launched an official TikTok account with a dramatic first post.
In the clip, President Donald Trump can be heard saying: “Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation. I am your voice.”
It was thought that the Chinese video sharing app would be banned in the US earlier this year but the president has allowed the social media platform to continue its operations despite a law requiring it to be sold.
The federal law which required for TikTok to either be sold or banned in the US was due to come into effect on January 20, just one day before Trump’s inauguration.
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And while the site did go down for a few hours, it was reinstated the next day, with the new president placing a pause on the ban.
And now it looks like the White House is joining the app, with the caption of its first video reading: “America we are BACK! What’s up TikTok?”
The account currently has 364,400 followers at the time of writing and has posted several videos in the last two days, with its bio saying: “Welcome to the Golden Age of America.”
Trump has been vocal of his support of TikTok in recent months, even crediting it with helping him to reach youth voters in last year’s presidential election.
After the account went live, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “The Trump administration is committed to communicating the historic successes President Trump has delivered to the American people with as many audiences and platforms as possible.”
Trump’s pause on the TikTok ban was extended for a third time in June and is due to come to an end next month.
ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok shared earlier this year that it was in talks with the US government as it works towards a solution for the issues surrounding the app in the US.
However, the firm went on to say that any resolution ‘will be subject to approval under Chinese law’.
The notion of banning TikTok in the US actually came from Trump himself back in 2020 after he shared that the app could pose a danger to national security.
However, the president changed his stance on the matter last year during his election campaign, even hosting TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate.