{"id":64833,"date":"2025-01-21T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64833"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:11:33","slug":"really-trump-proposes-allowing-the-us-government-and-china-to-police-americans-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64833","title":{"rendered":"REALLY? Trump Proposes Allowing the US Government (and China?) to &#8216;Police&#8217; Americans on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States of America. It was a day that will live in infamy because he&#8217;s also the first convicted felon and adjudicated rapist to occupy the White House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=REALLY? Trump Proposes Allowing the US Government (and China?) to 'Police' Americans on TikTok%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64833\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-bartiromo-shill.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47755\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump lived up to his criminal inclinations by issuing a tsunami of execrable executive orders, including one that granted pardons to the more than 1,500 January 6th insurrections who stormed the Capitol, assaulted police officers, and threatened members of Congress, in order to help Trump undermine democracy. His inauguration address, and subsequent speech to his cult followers, were testimony to his tyrannical aspirations, and were riddled with lies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64823\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Inauguration Day Rants Affirm that He is a Wannabe Dictator and a Pathological Liar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further evidence of Trump&#8217;s anti-American leanings were revealed during his executive disorder signing ceremony in the Oval Office. There were innumerable comments that exposed his malice and ignorance. But when he was presented with the order to delay the banning of TikTok &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/7521\" target=\"_blank\">as required by law<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; he volunteered a statement that confirms his aversion to the Constitution&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Passed in Congress, it gives the president the right to make a deal or to close it. And we have 90 days to make that decision. But I could see making a deal where the U.S. gets 50% of TikTok. Polices it a little bit, or a lot. Depends on them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: Is the TikTok CEO open to that idea?<\/p>\n<p>Trump: I think he would probably like it. Because he has got nothing. They really have nothing..  I could see making a deal with the U.S. Gets 50%, polices it a little bit or a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRxCHE0rNl\">pic.twitter.com\/TRxCHE0rNl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1881509951174324735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of derp to unravel in that drivel. Let&#8217;s start with the fact that the law does not <em>&#8220;give the president the right to make a deal or to close it.&#8221;<\/em> The law requires that TikTok be sold or blocked from U.S. users. There is a 90 period within which a challenge may be filed, but that&#8217;s a legal challenge, not the prerogative of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there is nothing in the law that allows the U.S. government to own 50% of the social media app. That would be blatantly improper and illegal. This was previously spelled out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64814\" target=\"_blank\">when Trump first floated his proposal for <em>&#8220;saving&#8221;<\/em> TikTok<\/a><\/strong> from the evil American <em>&#8220;communists&#8221;<\/em> who seek to prohibit the app run by <em>&#8220;friendly&#8221;<\/em> Chinese communists&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump seems to think that the U.S. government can be a business partner with a Chinese social media company that is suspected of improperly utilizing data collected from American users. That is wrong on many levels. First of all, it puts the U.S. in the position of collaborating with China to <em>&#8220;spy&#8221;<\/em> on American citizens. Secondly, it makes the U.S. government a profit partner in an otherwise private business. And thirdly, it violates the First Amendment by putting the U.S. government in a position to moderate (i.e. approve and\/or censor) the speech of U.S. citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last item in that analysis has now been affirmed by Trump who says that it would be okay if his unlawful joint venture with China <em>&#8220;Polices it a little bit, or a lot.&#8221;<\/em> That could not be a more flagrant breach of the First Amendment. It puts the U.S. government in the position of censoring free speech. Even worse, it could also give China the same power over the speech of Americans. But Trump wasn&#8217;t through parading his recklessness and ignorance. He also said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I may not do the deal or I may do the deal. TikTok is worthless. Worthless, if I don&#8217;t approve it. [&#8230;] If I do the deal it&#8217;s worth maybe a trillion dollars. [&#8230;] If I do the deal for the United States, then I think we should get half.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump on TikTok: I may not or he may do the deal. Tiktok is worthless. Worthless, if I don&#39;t approve it. I think the US should to get half of TikTok\u2026 I think we would have joint venture <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1G7mITDr2D\">pic.twitter.com\/1G7mITDr2D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1881509142155890690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>True to form, Trump is making up preposterous numbers to validate his delusional thinking. For one thing, TikTok has value that transcends its U.S. user base. In fact, TikTok has about a billion users worldwide. About 170 million of them (17%) are in the U.S. So while the loss of that audience would be significant, TikTok would still have 83% of its current users.<\/p>\n<p>Also, what the heck does Trump mean by <em>&#8220;we should get half.&#8221;<\/em> Who is <em>&#8220;we&#8221;<\/em>? What part of the U.S. government would the ownership of TikTok fall into? Would it be run by the White House? The Treasury Department? The Agency for Global Media that oversees the Voice of America? Who knows? And Trump doesn&#8217;t say. Also, where does the money go?<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the questions raised by Trump&#8217;s nonsensical meanderings. And finally, it&#8217;s notable that Trump&#8217;s current support for TikTok is a flagrant flip-flop from his prior position&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lg4q3kxuk22f\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicylkwbrwpwtte6cdcwu5cmppgg3gkasgdyjtkvfybjnbfwblmirm\">\n<p lang=\"en\">As Trump tries to take credit for &#34;saving&#34; TikTok, remember he was the instigator of the ban &amp; bragged about it 2 years ago. The bill he advocated was introduced by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX). Democrats opposed it.&#34;Right about everything&#34;? 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