After considering banning it when he was president, Donald Trump arrives on the social network TikTok

Le président Trump n'est pas à un paradoxe près. MAXPPP – MIKE THEILER

The candidate for the White House published a launch video on his account on the night of Saturday June 2 to Sunday June 3.

Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, has launched on TikTok, the short video social media platform owned by the Chinese technology giant ByteDance and which he had tried under his presidency to ban it.

According to the news site Politico, which first reported the news, Donald Trump published a launch video on his account overnight from Saturday to Sunday. The video shows the billionaire greeting fans during an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Newark, New Jersey.

Already almost 500,000 followers

The President Donald J. Trump account, whose address is @realdonaldtrump, had more than 450,000 followers as of 8 a.m. GMT. ByteDance is challenging in court a US law that came into force in April, which requires it to sell TikTok assets to the United States by January or face a ban.< /p>

The United States invoked national security to justify this law, adopted by an overwhelming majority by Congress, with Washington saying it fears that the data of American users of the application will be transmitted to the authorities Chinese, which Tiktok denies.

Donald Trump's attempt to ban TikTok in 2020, when he was president, was blocked by the courts. Donald Trump said in March that the platform posed a threat to national security, but noted that a ban would harm some young users and would only strengthen Facebook's Meta Platforms, a platform that has been widely used by Facebook since 2015. #39;he strongly criticized. Joe Biden's campaign team for the November elections has also been on TikTok since February.