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.
“Donald Trump says dumb fucking thing after other dumb fucking contradictory thing”
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.
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.’
That was a strange video to listen to. He wants the US to own half… Like nationalizing the platform?
He wants his cut, like the mafia
To “wet his beak”
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.
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.
Obviously not like that, but wants it privately owned by his “American” cronies… like Elon
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.
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…
u-turning so fast he’s basically drifting in circles.
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.
Did someone say donuts?!
I think you’re on to something…
I think you’re on
tosomething…FTFY 😁
“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
it amuses me that people expect anything else from his presidency. it will be a “highest bidder wins” war.
How does this lower the cost of my eggs?
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.
You can suck on Trump’s eggs for a million. Dale Huevo!!
You missunderstood. This ends the war in Ukraine
By increasing the price of avocado toast and keeping eggs as they are now, eggs are essentially cheaper. Crisis solved!
He meant that TikTok’s gratuities are worth less than Zuckerberg and Musk’s.
Old man yells at rock. Old man becomes friend with rock. Old man yells at rock.
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 says it like it is
Wasn’t that how like half of maga justified voting for him? I see how that one’s going
What pisses me off the most is that he blatantly places no consideration about the security implications of this decision. It is just about making a deal for his tech bros.
He doesn’t give a flying fuck about the country. He’d burn it all down if it could turn a profit for him.
He is, arguably, doing exactly that as we speak
After it filled up with pro-trump propaganda and started blocking hashtags based on who Trump hates, I went back to Rednote for now until our “free” nation bans that to maintain the capitalist oligarch narrative on major social media. We can talk about Luigi there.
I’d rather be propagandized by them than Zuck and Elon and Bezos and Donnie. Their people actually seem to believe they owe one another basic decency and courtesy. It’s refreshing.
“Herp derp genocide!”
When there’s a non distributed, aka popular and populated, social network that isn’t the product and propaganda tool of a genocidal nation, I’ll defect to that, but I haven’t heard anything about a civilized, admirable nation like Norway launching a competitor.
Give Loops a try.
I wonder how much of this is him realizing that there’s nothing he can do to save 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.
Man right back to the flip flopping like a hot dog on a 7 eleven grill.
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.
Lmao is Trump negging them.
Glad someone else sees this for what it is.
