Lhe former US president Donald Trump has created a TikTok account, posting his first video on the ultra-popular social network he tried to ban when he was president.
In a 13-second video posted Saturday evening, we see the Republican presidential candidate in November attending an MMA fight in Newark, New Jersey, in the northeast of the United States.
The former president is accompanied by the head of the mixed martial arts organization UFC, Dana White, who announces at the start of the video that “the president is now on TikTok”.
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” An honor “
“It’s an honor for me,” replied Donald Trump.
As of midday Sunday, the former president had more than two million subscribers on his @realDonaldTrump account.
At the end of April, US President Joe Biden signed into law a law which plans to ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company Bytedance does not find a buyer within 12 months.
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TikTok and ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the United States in early May, arguing that the law was “unconstitutional.”
In 2020, Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok by executive order, citing threats to national security in particular.
