{"id":2386090,"date":"2025-01-03T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-why-he-would-ban-tiktok-when-his-accounts-are-popular-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:58:16","slug":"trump-asks-why-he-would-ban-tiktok-when-his-accounts-are-popular-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-why-he-would-ban-tiktok-when-his-accounts-are-popular-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks why he would ban TikTok when his accounts are popular &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-asks-why-he-would-ban-tiktok-when-his-accounts-are-popular-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2386090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest\/\" title=\"Ray Epps faces misdemeanor charges for his involvement in the J6 Capitol protest.\">provided text appears<\/a> to consist of a snippet of HTML\u200b code related\u2064 to a \u200bwebsite, including elements for a &#8220;read more&#8230;&#8221; 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His position has since vacillated, with a Truth Social post on Friday hinting that he would not ban it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why would I want to get rid of TikTok?&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113762718646858742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>, with an infographic illustrating his popularity on the app attached.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic showed that Trump and his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">surrogate accounts garnered 3<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-olympian-posts-chinese-propaganda-from-beijing-on-tiktok-despite-espionage-warnings-china-applauds\/\" title=\"U.S. Olympian Posts Chinese Propaganda from Beijing on TikTok Despite Espionage Warnings, China Applauds\">8 billion views<\/a>, greatly outnumbering his 2024 competitor, Vice President Kamala Harris, who garnered just 1.3 billion views.<\/p>\n<p>According to the infographic, Trump&rsquo;s surrogate account, @teamtrump, garnered an average of over eight times more views per post on TikTok than Instagram. Trump&rsquo;s personal account garnered an average of five times more views per post on TikTok than Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The #trump received 36 billion views, while the average post on Trump&rsquo;s account on TikTok received 24 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Pop superstar Taylor Swift received just 251 million views, and Beyonce 131 million.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3271484\/trump-supreme-court-pause-law-threatening-tiktok-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"appealed\">appealed<\/a> to the Supreme Court to delay a law that would effectively ban TikTok with a Jan. 19 deadline. Trump&rsquo;s nominee for solicitor general, John Sauer, said the deadline should be pushed back so the new president could have an input.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3271873\/conservative-opposition-brews-trump-leniency-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"rare pushback\">rare pushback<\/a> from within the GOP over the move.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1918800\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1918800\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump questions banning TikTok, citing his app popularity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2386091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190985574.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5894,32364,6248,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2386090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-politics","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190985574.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386095,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386090\/revisions\/2386095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}