TikTok, the favored viral video platform, remains to be slated to be banned within the U.S. subsequent yr. And with 2024 coming to an finish, the January 19, 2025 ban date for TikTok is quick approaching.
Simply weeks earlier than Christmas, the Supreme Courtroom of america agreed to listen to an attraction filed by TikTok and its mother or father firm ByteDance. The oral arguments in that case are set to start Jan. 10.
Nonetheless, President-elect Donald Trump, who can be inaugurated on Jan. 20, simply someday after the pending TikTok ban, is urging the Supreme Courtroom to only grant a keep on the TikTok ban deadline date.
Why? As a result of Trump humbly claims that solely he can clear up the difficulty and save TikTok from being banned.
Trump to SCOTUS: Let me save TikTok
In his message to the Supreme Courtroom, Trump asserts a myriad of causes as to why he is uniquely positioned to deal with the supposed nationwide safety issues tied with TikTok being owned by a China-based firm whereas concurrently saving the platform from a ban.
Within the temporary, Trump drops what number of followers he has on TikTok (greater than 14 million) and the way the platform performed an important position in his profitable reelection marketing campaign. The president-elect makes point out of Brazil’s current ban on Elon Musk’s X, previously often known as Twitter, to showcase an identical case of “historic hazard” when a authorities bans a social media platform. As well as, Trump additionally cites his experience because the founding father of “one other resoundingly profitable social-media platform,” Fact Social, to indicate why he has particular perception on the problems.
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And, after all, Trump highlights that he is the perfect at making offers.
“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking experience, the electoral mandate, and the political will to barter a decision to avoid wasting the platform whereas addressing the nationwide safety issues expressed by the Authorities—issues which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” reads an amicus temporary filed by Trump to the courtroom on Friday.
Trump did need to ban TikTok however does not need to anymore
Readers might recall that TikTok ban talks started beneath the primary Trump administration. In actual fact, Trump was on the verge of going ahead with an precise TikTok ban in late 2020. TikTok went out of its strategy to companion with the U.S.-based Oracle to host all of its U.S.-related information to satisfy Trump’s phrases to keep away from a ban.
Nonetheless, after Trump misplaced in 2020, TikTok’s pending ban was principally deserted by the primary Trump administration.
Underneath the Biden administration, the issues concerning ByteDance’s possession of TikTok had been renewed ensuing within the newest transfer to pressure the China-based firm to promote TikTok or lose its potential to function within the U.S. Now, after using TikTok for his successful 2024 reelection bid, Trump is singing a unique tune in regards to the platform.
Earlier this month, Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-lago. Then, proper earlier than Christmas, at an occasion for the conservative group Turning Level USA, shared his views on TikTok to the gang.
“They introduced me a chart, and it was a file, and it was so lovely to see, and as I checked out it, I stated, ‘Perhaps we gotta maintain this sucker round for a short time,'” Trump stated after claiming his TikTok movies obtain “billions of views.”
It is unclear as to what stats Trump was referring to, as his highest-performing video on TikTok was the primary one he posted, which obtained 179 million views. Trump hasn’t posted on TikTok since earlier than the polls closed on election day.
