Former President Trump’s super PAC has joined TikTok, the app the Trump administration previously attempted to ban, as it seeks to spread its message across various platforms.
“MAGA INC will not cede any platform to Joe Biden and the Democrats who are trying to destroy our country,” Taylor Budowich, CEO of MAGA Inc., posted on the social platform and in all sectors of this country. country.”
The super PAC uses the handle “@MAGA” on the app. His early videos touted Trump’s economic record and attacked independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a “lifelong Democrat and liberal.”
The Biden campaign has had a presence on TikTok for months and has worked with influencers on the platform to spread the president’s message and agenda, seeing it as a way to reach young voters.
The campaign said it will stay on the app even after President Biden signed legislation that could lead to a ban on TikTok several months later.
The Washington Post reported This week, Trump’s presidential campaign was weighing whether to join the popular app, with advisers divided on whether the benefits were worth the potential political backlash of joining a platform that some Republicans have equated to Chinese spyware.
The former president issued an executive order in 2020 aimed at forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets, although the order was later blocked in court.
But Trump has since changed his tonesuggesting that a ban on TikTok could benefit Facebook, a company with which the former president has a long-running feud.
Facebook banned Trump in January 2021 following the Capitol riots, during which hundreds of his supporters attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. The former president spent months spreading false claims on the elections on social media before the attack on the Capitol.
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