More than a year after Congress passed a law to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or else be banned from U.S. markets, the app is still up and running — and the White House is actively promoting it.
The White House’s official TikTok account, created just over two weeks ago, has posted more than 60 times. The posts range from compilations of Trump’s media clips to highly produced videos hosted by Karoline Leavitt summarizing the White House’s messaging, as well as memes attacking liberals for not supporting Trump and other chronically online, meme-formatted videos promoting the administration’s agenda on immigration.
Lawmakers who passed the ban aren’t thrilled that President Donald Trump has defied it, and they aren’t particularly pleased he’s now using the app to communicate with Americans through a White House account.