Trump Flip Flops on TikTok

Friday, April 26, 2024

After he spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok, Donald Trump's abrupt effort to defend the Chinese-owned app late last week caught many in Washington by surprise. But for people who've been watching Trump's TikTok policies closely, it was part of a pattern: Changing course when an interested billionaire donor was in the mix.

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... In 2020, the Trump-linked billionaire with a stake in TikTok's fate was Larry Ellison, co-founder of software company Oracle and the host of a lavish fundraiser for Trump's reelection effort in February 2020. Oracle CEO Safra Catz also donated $125,000 to the Trump Victory committee later that year. Under tremendous pressure from the Trump administration " and after Trump's efforts to ban the app or force a sale fizzled out " TikTok ultimately tapped Oracle to serve as its primary cloud provider in the United States.

Today that billionaire is Jeffrey Yass, a major donor to the conservative Club for Growth as the group cozies up to Trump ahead of his 2024 presidential campaign. Yass holds a 15 percent stake in TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance, and Club for Growth has tapped former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to push back on Washington's plan to restrict the app. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:05 AM | Reply

You mean, fmr Pres Trump's about-face on TikTok does not appear to be about the people who use TikTok, but the billionaires who can give him money?

I am shocked!

SHOCKED!!!

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:07 AM | Reply

This isn't the first time sh*tler was paid off by the chinese.

He did the same thing with ZTE.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-26 08:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Did people actually believe him?

Are there actually people unaware that he's going to turn the US into an oligarchy if he wins again?

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-26 11:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Trump will shill for whomever pays him to shill.

Including Vlad and Xi, who are helping him get re-elected.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-26 04:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Just like he flip flopped on bud light after they wrote him a check.

Your cult leader is a whore.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-04-26 05:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump sticks a small finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.

He has no principles but one: to do whatever is good for Donald Trump. No one else enters that equation. Not you, not me, just him.

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-04-27 12:09 PM | Reply

"We have a major TikTok problem" (Johnathan Greenblatt, ADL)

The banning has very little to do with China. It has quite a bit to do with Israel. Israel cannot control the narrative with TikTok like it can with the current America legacy media outlets. And that is why Tiktok is considered a threat.

#8 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2024-04-27 02:15 PM | Reply