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I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain). Specifically, the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China (China) continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. At this time, action must be taken to address the threat posed by one mobile application in particular, TikTok.
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https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov...-posed-tiktok/
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TikTok began restoring service to users in the United States following a temporary and voluntary shutdown that lasted less than a day. The company said Sunday that it was in the process of reinstating access after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order to restore the app.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-...o-take-effect/
So to be clear, in 2019 Trump used an executive order to begin the banning of Tic Tok. In April of 2024 he blames this on Biden, pretending he hadn't started anything. He also conveniently said it was to help out his buddies at Meta, which is a weird thing to remember when he takes Zuckerburg's money and has him bending the knee(or really, both). So now he's using an executive order to undo the thing he did that he blamed on Biden.
Oh, and he also had Musk give him $250 million to get elected and use his actual misinformation social media platform to do actual election interference, since that's a big Trump concern.
This, my friends, is who we have to negotiate the survival of our country with. I don't have high hopes.