Buck Brief - Trump Might Save TikTok From Doom

The Buck Sexton Show

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News, Politics, Government

4.2 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Buck Sexton dives into the latest developments surrounding TikTok's potential nationwide ban and Trump's reported efforts to prevent it. With concerns over Chinese data control and bipartisan scrutiny, is there a path forward for the popular app? Buck breaks down the implications, including how U.S.-based tech giants might benefit from TikTok's downfall. Plus, a look at the evolving MAGA landscape under a potential second Trump administration, the DOJ's reputation, and high-profile Cabinet picks like Pam Bondi

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
0:04.6	Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:10.2	Welcome to the Buck Brief.
0:11.3	Let's talk about the upcoming ban of TikTok for a second here.
0:15.0	There could be a last minute reprieve.
0:18.9	Trump is considering an executive order, according to Washington Post here, to save TikTok
0:25.2	from the ban under U.S. law.
0:28.5	He's exploring, quote, unconventional ways to rescue the Chinese own video app from a nationwide
0:34.0	ban, saying it will help him reach an adoring audience throughout his second term.
0:38.8	So I'm not alone here. I like TikTok. I think it is a very good content platform.
0:45.9	And I don't even really post on TikTok. I mean, this show doesn't even go really on TikTok.
0:50.3	Oh, maybe I should change. Well, it might get shut down a few days. This is, I think, an opportunity because all that we really should care about here is that
1:00.7	China doesn't have control over the app and that China can't use it as a backdoor way
1:07.0	to access the personal data of millions of Americans, right?
1:09.9	That should be pretty easy to do.
1:13.9	TikTok says it's already effectively done and that there really is that this whole thing about
1:20.3	the Chinese spying app that is TikTok is overblown. I keep saying this and nobody seems to
1:27.3	be picking up on this other than me.
1:29.3	Who are the biggest beneficiaries from a shutdown of TikTok? Meta, meaning Facebook, Instagram,
1:36.4	Google or Alphabet and Google and YouTube under Alphabet. The other social media is Snapchat,
1:43.4	which I guess, I don't know if people still
1:44.9	even use Snapchat, but some of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world want
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