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Title: The White House now has a TikTok account

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:24:20 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-whi...

The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump
wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in
various events with Kendrick Lamar's track playing in the background. The New
York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing
movie starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. In the TikTok post, Trump could
be heard saying "I am your voice," while the caption reads "America we are
BACK! What's up TikTok?"

Trump's administration believes TikTok helped him win over young voters in
the 2024 Presidential election, with the account he used to campaign having
over 15 million followers. "President Trump's message dominated TikTok during
his presidential campaign, and we're excited to build upon those successes
and communicate in a way no other administration has before," White House
press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

The president wasn't always fond of the platform. He once vowed to ban the
app in the US and signed an executive order to outlaw any transaction between
the app and its China-based parent company ByteDance for national security
reasons. TikTok's "data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist
Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information ΓÇö
potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and
contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and
conduct corporate espionage," the executive order read.

After taking office earlier this year, however, Trump quickly put a pause on
the law that was supposed to ban TikTok in the US. He even delayed the ban a
couple more times to give ByteDance more time to sell its US business. Trump
previously claimed that a "very wealthy" group is poised to buy TikTok, but
the administration has yet to reveal the identities of the people in it.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-whi...
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