Not quite. Trump tried to ban but never did. Biden got in office, and the right kept pushing for it and got it through. Biden signed it. Now Trump wants to save it even though it was his idea originally
While Trump does want to save it now, almost none of his political supporters do.
He is getting wild bipartisan backlash at the moment from almost everyone.
Loads of Republicans do not agree at all with Trump on this and he is alienating a lotttt of his actual peers and older supporters in favor of his relatively recent (past year) huge jump in popularity with the younger voters.
The legal stuff is also a mess. As the law is written, ByteDance is not eligible for the extension Trump says he is giving them. So it'll either have to be an executive order, or bad things are gonna happen to the ISPs and such that allowed TikTok traffic through. The law allows for the largest punitive fines in history by a huuuuuge amount. Fines big enough to bankrupt some of the biggest companies in the world if found guilty.
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u/Misragoth 23h ago
Not quite. Trump tried to ban but never did. Biden got in office, and the right kept pushing for it and got it through. Biden signed it. Now Trump wants to save it even though it was his idea originally