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He may have spurned Elon Musk’s X, but Donald Trump has joined a new social media platform: TikTok.
The former president, himself the owner of social media site Truth Social, quickly racked up 3.7 million followers on the platform — that’s more than ten times the followers of Joe Biden, who joined in February, for those keeping score. Trump’s first TikTok is a video of himself walking around a UFC fight, complete with roaring crowds and a Joe Rogan cameo.
@realdonaldtrump Launching my TikTok at @UFC ♬ original sound – President Donald J Trump
For the original poster behind instant classics like “covfefe”, “many such cases” and “fake news”, it’s only natural that he’d soar on Gen Z’s preferred social media outlet. His previous efforts to ban the app have been forgiven and forgotten.
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