Comment If you had to guess, who would you say former US President Donald Trump hates more: China or Mark Zuckerberg?
We now have our answer.
Despite Trump previously calling TikTok a national security threat and signing an executive order in 2020 to kick it out of the United States, he's now saying he'd rather have it stay than give the gift of its banning to Zuckerberg, one of his countless archnemeses.
"If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business," Trump said in a post to Truth Social, his personal Twitter alternative. "I don't want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!"
Trump's post signaled his entry into the debate surrounding a Congressional bill introduced Tuesday that would ban TikTok from operating in the US in six months unless Chinese parent ByteDance sold it - a nearly identical proposal to Trump's failed plan.
In response to that proposed law, TikTok pushed a notification to its US users, warning them of the looming blockade, and urging them to contact their representatives in Congress. Lawmakers were reportedly flooded with irritated TikTok fans demanding the bill be thrown in the bin.
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