Former President Donald Trump joined TikTok over the weekend and garnered 3. 6 million fans after sharing a single post.
Despite efforts to ban the social media platform while he was in the White House, Trump released his first video on Saturday night.
Captured while attending an Ultimate Fighting Championship in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, the video now has 3. 5 million likes and more than 143,000 comments.
“It’s an honor for me,” Trump said after being announced as a member of TikTok through UFC president Dana White, and the video shows him in the crowd on the occasion in Newark.
“It’s a smart ride, isn’t it?” He then talks about the wrestlers at the end of the 13-second clip.
After his appearance on the site, which features his social media shared username, “realdonaldtrump” and his face shaded with the American flag, the comments section excites.
“This is the fastest I’ve ever pressed the button,” one woman wrote, while another said he was “the people’s champion. “
Others said they were on the hunt to vote for him in the November election, while others said the creation of the account was a historic moment.
I launch my TikTok on @UFC 302.
“I will use any and all tools available to speak directly to other Americans about how Joe Biden’s failed presidency is tearing our beautiful country apart and how I am going to prevent it,” Trump said in a message posted on his campaign website. .
The growing number of fans on Trump’s account comes as the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 election has noticed the stock of his own social media platform Truth Social plummeting after his conviction last Thursday at his secret trial in New York.
He was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 presidential election, which he won.
During his tenure, Trump raised national security concerns when he came to TikTok and called for its ban, but he appears to have replaced his brain since then, saying a ban would now benefit Facebook.
President Biden had indicated earlier this year that he would effectively ban TikTok, following a law that asked the Chinese parent company to disconnect from the platform or threaten to cut it off from U. S. app stores.
Despite this, Biden’s crusade has been added to the video-sharing site.
First posted after the Super Bowl, with a video titled “lol, hey guys,” the account failed to compile what Trump has noticed in just two days, with 344,500 fans since February despite posting more than two hundred clips.
Hi, guys
Trump’s private X account also has a large following, with around 87. 1 million people despite his infrequent posts since Elon Musk reactivated the account last year, following a ban from its previous owner.
Joe Biden’s private account has 38 million followers, while his official account of the president has about 34 million.
Dan Gooding is a reporter for Newsweek in New York City. She focuses on reporting on immigration and the U. S. -Mexico border as a member of the Live News team. Dan joined Newsweek in 2024. Me I graduated from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. contact Dan by emailing d. gooding@newsweek. com. Languages: English.
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