Trump is now Pro China?
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Anonymous
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How else to explain coming out 1000% against the TikTok ban, when 5 years ago Tik Tok was his mortal threat to US sovereignty.
5 years later, TikTok is much larger and still beholden to the Chinese government. Anyone care to explain? |
Anonymous
| Invested? |
Anonymous
| Clearly as a ploy to get young voters. He doesn't do anything that's not in his sole best interest. |
Anonymous
| Trump was always pro-China for his business interests. Only his rubes believe otherwise. |
Anonymous
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Aside from the fact that Trump has consistently praised Xi for years, he’s now cozying up to Jeff Yass who owns TikTok because he needs money.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/09/tiktok-ban-trump-republicans |
Anonymous
I get that, but his whole persona has been how China is terrible and he is uniquely able to negotiate with China. I just don't understand how this is now reconciled with loving TikTok. |
Anonymous
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He was never not pro-China.
He had business dealings there WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT, paid more in taxes to China than the USA. His daughter was awarded grifting trademarks while she was a white house employee. Among his first actions as president was to pull the US out of the TPP, thus ceding the South China Sea to China. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
No. 
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Anonymous
| Trump’s entire schtick is do as I say, not as I do. |
Anonymous
| By March 2020 he was calling it the China Virus and bragging about closing our borders with China. |
Anonymous
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Steve Bannon, the one-time adviser to Donald Trump, suggested on Saturday that the former president was paid off after a shift in stance on TikTok.
https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-suggests-donald-trump-has-been-bought-1877583 Trump is easily bought. |
Anonymous
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The former Republican president said: "If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook ... will double their business," and added he does not want Facebook "doing better."
I think it should be banned for several reasons probably the biggest is security but also how vastly different TikTok is in the U.S. to how it operates in China. But, ultimately I just don’t use it or allow my kids on it so for now it’s up to the individual to assess risk for themselves and their family. |
Anonymous
Which of course is hysterical...don't we at least want American companies to do much better if an agent of the Chinese government is banned? Won't Truth Social, Rumblr and other right-wing sites also do better if TitTok is banned? |
Anonymous
| We sent our entire manufacturing base to China. We filled our universities with Chinese students, they then graduated into a number of critical industries. How could we not be pro-China? If we wanted to be anti-China, its a little late. |