As my colleague, Ben Kew, reported back on March 6, a complete ban on the Chinese Communist Party-owned social media app TikTok is now closer than ever, with bipartisan legislation requiring the popular app to be divested from its Chinese owner ByteDance or face an outright ban on app stores in the United States.
The legislation mirrors the position previously held by then-President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order that would have effectively banned the use of TikTok in the U.S. unless ByteDance sold the app to a company without ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
But now that Congress is considering legislation that would accomplish exactly what Trump first supported, he has changed his position on the wildly popular social media app.
In a post to TruthSocial last Thursday, Trump said:
If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I…
