1 week ago - In one video shared by the White House, from Trump's greeting with the Secretary General of NATO, he said: I watched a couple of people critical of [...] TikTok. It's so bad, it's so dangerous, it's so horrible. They're spreading all these rumors. And then numbers came out yesterday, and you know who's number one on TikTok? I am. I'm number one on TikTok. And all I talk about is how bad communism is, right? They say, "Oh, it's terrible, they're spreading," but I'm number one. [...] But I'm number one on TikTok. I have like 4 billion views, or something like that. Fox News also published a shorter clip from that exchange titled "Trump claims he is number one on TikTok at NATO Summit." In another video published by the White House, from a July 8 press conference, Trump again said he was No. 1 on the platform: Even in TikTok, you know, I was watching somebody say, "Oh, the TikTok deal.

May 8, 2026 - ... The Trump administration is nearing an agreement with TikTok to resolve an ongoing lawsuit over alleged child privacy violations in exchange for the social media company paying $400 million that the administration plans to use to fund President ...

6 hours ago - The graphic — which, according to Trump, was sent by TikTok CEO Shou Chew — also references some 425 billion all-time views on TikToks tagged with “#Trump.” · The image also points to billions of views on TikToks related to his D.C. “beautification” projects, the Iran “peace deal,” as well as those linked to the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House’s South Lawn. MeidasTouch’s J.D. Wolf noted that such figures include “supportive, neutral, and critical content alike,” meaning TikToks that knock the administration’s work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, for instance, would be looped into the data. ... Trump, while holding a printout of the graphic in the Oval Office, nonetheless bragged that “billions and billions of people” are looking at him. “And I keep hearing about the influence other people have,” Trump continued in the clip.

September 15, 2025 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday trade talks with China had gone very well and hinted that a deal has been reached to resolve issues the U.S. has over TikTok ownership.

October 27, 2025 - US President Donald Trump has said a final ownership deal on TikTok could be struck during an expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, a summit that would build on the latest round of trade talks between representatives ...

December 19, 2025 - TikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump threatened to ban the social media platform over privacy and national security concerns, a move that further ...

1 week ago - A Sunday Truth Social post adds some clarity to Trump's claims. Trump posted a message from TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew saying the president was the No. 1 most followed world leader on the app. When asked for a comment on the discrepancy, the White House referred to a second Truth Social post where Trump reposted the original one. Trump does have the most followers out of the world leaders on the app, a CNBC analysis found. After him are El Salvador's Nayib Bukele with 12.9 million followers, Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum with 9.3 million followers and France's Emmanuel Macron with 7.3 million followers. Many world leaders do not have TikTok accounts, including China's Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and many heads of Middle Eastern countries. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has amassed 1.5 million followers on the social media platform.

1 week ago - The backlash against Trump's latest Oval Office remarks continued, with another writing, “He provides non-stop comedy and political satire material,” and “This looks like Saturday Night Live comedy skit and I can’t enjoy this political lampoon enough.” · Things further took a turn when Trump started answering questions from reporters–and at one point was addressing TikTok, the social media platform that had been briefly banned in the United States before the Chinese company that owned it sold it to American investors. As he discussed it–and brought up his continued feud with Taylor Swift, whose wedding took place on Friday, July 3, Trump suffered from a humiliating blunder, as he called the app “Tic Tac” –referring to the breath mints brand–while trying to make himself sound superior to the singer. ... “You know who the number one person on Tic Tac is by far?

April 30, 2026 - On September 25, Trump signed a fifth executive order, "Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security," extending non-enforcement for a further 120 days (until January 22, 2026), in order to allow a divestiture of TikTok's U.S. operations to be completed. The deal closed on January 22, 2026, with ...

September 20, 2025 - At a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump bragged that the U.S. should get a “tremendous fee plus” for brokering the TikTok deal. It’s classic Trump: blending diplomacy with transaction, turning national security ...

September 19, 2025 - The United States and China may have agreed on a deal to prevent the social platform TikTok from being banned in the US—if you take US president Donald Trump’s word for it. After a long-awaited call between Trump and Chinese president Xi ...

1 week ago - During his first term, President Trump worked to ban TikTok outright as a supposed national security threat. That effort was dropped by President Joe Biden before Congress took up the cause and passed legislation to either force a sale of the ...

October 29, 2025 - The Trump administration has been signaling that it may have finally reached a deal with China to keep TikTok running in the U.S.

2 weeks ago - Donald Trump announced Monday that a slew of tech companies are expected to contribute to his eponymously named childhood investment accounts. But when asked to elaborate on the financial backing behind Trump Accounts, the president suddenly trailed off into a lengthy rant about his popularity on TikTok. “On the Trump accounts—the SpaceX president has said that she is going to donate shares to the Trump accounts,” said Yahoo Finance’s Jennifer Schonberger, referring to Gwynne Shotwell. “Have you spoken at all with Elon Musk about further share donations as well as other corporate—about share donations?” · “I’m like a cheerleader for geniuses,” Trump started before almost immediately switching the topic. “Now there’s a thing called TikTok, have you heard of it?” · Trump recalled a segment he had seen recently on Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria.

March 14, 2025 - Trump will try to deal with TikTok in current time frame, US Commerce chief says

September 17, 2025 - WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement between the U.S. and China to keep TikTok operating in the United States, with three sources familiar with the matter saying the deal was similar to one ...

October 6, 2025 - While Trump has touted a sale, Bytedance has not confirmed the deal, and the White House hasn't released details. What they're saying: "You owe me big," Trump told TikTok viewers.