In case we needed further proof that President Donald Trump really does not like TikTok, here is the last one: Trump and his team have created a verified account of TikTok rival Thriller, apparently trying to figure out how video-sharing apps work.
It appears that Trump’s account was created on Saturday, a day after Trump extended the term for Bytedance, the Chinese of TikTok owner, for sale his American business of 45 to 90 days. As of Sunday, Trump’s thriller had about 9.600 followers on Thriller and four videos. The account states that it is “Brought to you by Team Trump,” which seems to suggest that the president himself did not upload videos to Triller.
Honestly, I’m not sure he could have done it better. The videos are just plain bad and confusing, very far from the fun and entertainment generated by content on TikTok, at least in my humble opinion.
Let’s the first video, for instance. For some strange reason, the slickly produced video opens with Trump saying, “I’m a professional in technology,” and ends with, “No one can do it like me. Nobody. “ It too encourages people to follow the president’s account. I mean, I think the Trump team apparently wanted to convey that the president understands technology and that no one can do technology like he can. But I had to watch the video a few times to get to that conclusion.
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The other three videos are not much better, and are almost not as well produced. In one of them, Trump attacks presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and accuses him of having no clue (which one, to let’s to be honest, is pretty normal Trump.) There is also a misleading video of Biden in which he appears to say, ‘I will beat Joe Biden. Look at my plate. ” Yet Biden never said this, but in fact said, ‘I go to be Joe Biden, ”per PolitiFact. This can be confirmed by analyzing the context of the video.
In another video, Trump says he really has it appreciates the ‘boaters for Trump’, the groups of his supporters that ruled hold boatparades to show their support for him. He adds that if he had time, he would get on one of the boats to participate.
Well, having said that, is it really surprising that Trump’s thriller videos do not make much sense? Not really. This is the same person who confuses and intentionally misleading people with what he says on Twitter and in person, after all.
Thriller, which launched before TikTok, has got surges in popularity since Trump started talking about banning TikTok. The President finally signed an executive order that will prohibit the app as Bytedance does not sell their U.S. operations before the deadline. The White House has repeatedly suggested that TikTok could leak US user data to the Chinese government, a claim that TikTok strongly denies.
However, that is not the only rival for TikTok on the horizon. Instagram is also looking to steal users from TikTok, launch Reels in their app in early August. Leave the app for video sharing games start, I think. Trump’s thriller videos received more than five million views this weekend.
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