The White House has rolled out an official TikTok account, even as President Donald Trump’s ban on the Chineseowned platform inches closer to enforcement.
Under a 2024 data protection law, TikTok was ordered to shut down in the U.S. by January 19 unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold off its American operations.
Trump, who leaned heavily on TikTok during his campaign trail, repeatedly pushed back the deadline, first to early April, then June 19, and later September 17.
The newly launched @WhiteHouse account has already racked up over 80,000 followers since debuting Tuesday with a short video montage of the President captioned, “America we are BACK! What’s up TikTok?”.
Back in 2020, Trump labeled TikTok a “national emergency” and signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the app during his first term in office.
