{"id":13667,"date":"2024-03-11T23:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/donald-trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-now-rails-against-a-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:37:15","slug":"donald-trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-now-rails-against-a-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/donald-trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-now-rails-against-a-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump flip flops on TikTok, now rails against a ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president\u2019s newfound support comes after Joe Biden said he\u2019d sign legislation that could ban the app in the US<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/nov\/12\/tiktok-trump-administration-justice-department\"> flirted with a US ban on the Chinese owners of TikTok<\/a> while president, has come out in favor of the popular phone app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljZCcUHCgro\">Trump told CNBC on Monday,<\/a> saying that without it \u201cyou can make Facebook bigger and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people\u201d. He said that, while he still believes TikTok is a national security risk, other apps are a risk as well, and singled out the Meta-owned platform: \u201cI think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially when it comes to elections.\u201d Last week, he said banning TikTok would help \u201cFacebook and Zuckerschmuck double their business\u201d, referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/11\/donald-trump-tiktok-ban-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c342ccfbf7d18c08daf1839cb8754a2098d5dcbb\/0_330_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c55f4e2afbf147d9fa9de6f8f9a5d29a\" title=\"Donald Trump flip flops on TikTok, now rails against a ban\" \/>Ex-president\u2019s newfound support comes after Joe Biden said he\u2019d sign legislation that could ban the app in the US<br \/>\nDonald Trump, who flirted with a US ban on the Chinese owners of TikTok while president, has come out in favor of the popular phone app.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,\u201d Trump told CNBC on Monday, saying that without it \u201cyou can make Facebook bigger and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people\u201d. He said that, while he still believes TikTok is a national security risk, other apps are a risk as well, and singled out the Meta-owned platform: \u201cI think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially when it comes to elections.\u201d Last week, he said banning TikTok would help \u201cFacebook and Zuckerschmuck double their business\u201d, referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president\u2019s newfound support comes after Joe Biden said he\u2019d sign legislation that could ban the app in the US Donald Trump, who flirted with a US ban on the Chinese owners of TikTok while president, has come out in favor of the popular phone app. \u201cThere are a lot of people on TikTok that love &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/donald-trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-now-rails-against-a-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump flip flops on TikTok, now rails against a ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}