Trump and his team posted their first video to TikTok on Saturday night, featuring the former president alongside Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White at a UFC title fight in New Jersey.
The video started with White telling the camera, "The President is now on TikTok," and Trump following it up with, "It's my honor," our colleague Miranda Nazzaro reported.
The 13-second video then cuts to Trump walking into Saturday night's bout at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and greeting fans and other audience members.
The video amassed more than 2.3 million likes and 38 million views in less than 15 hours as of Sunday at 2 p.m. Trump's account gained more than 2.2 million followers — more than six times the followers of the Biden-Harris HQ account, which was started in February.
Trump, while president, attempted to ban TikTok in an executive order that sought to force TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets. The order was later blocked in court.
In a drastic shift, Trump opposed the latest efforts to ban TikTok this year, claiming it would benefit Facebook, which banned him in January 2021 in the wake of the Capitol riots.
He placed the blame on President Biden as legislation to potentially ban the app made its way through Congress and to the president's desk amid growing national security concerns over the app's ties to China.
The bill was quickly signed by Biden in late April, establishing a timeline for ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban from U.S. app stores and networks.
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com.
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