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Bulwark Takes

If Trump Can Ignore the TikTok Ban, What’s Next?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller and Andrew Egger take on Trump’s lawless TikTok play. The White House just launched an official account even though the platform was supposed to be banned under U.S. law — a ban upheld 9–0 by the Supreme Court. Trump shrugs it off, admits he’s doing it to chase young voters, and meanwhile creators say TikTok is censoring anti-Trump voices.

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0:27.4

We want to talk about the White House joining TikTok.

0:33.0

I'm going to admit it.

0:34.5

I'm a TikTok consumer.

0:36.1

I'm more of a user. You know, you see me

0:39.0

producing to you here on YouTube and other platforms, but I'm a consumer on TikTok. I know I shouldn't

0:45.3

be. The Chinese are spying on me, but I'm weak. But the issue here, I think, was more to do

0:51.0

with, like, the law, the fact that we don't have laws in this country anymore

0:55.3

anymore i guess i guess the laws are just whatever don't trump wishes because the white

0:59.2

house launched their account on tuesday uh with donald trump saying i am your voice

1:03.6

posted a bunch of videos it did have some they they were trolled a lot uh but there's one little

1:09.2

problem here which was there was a law that was passed that

1:12.8

required ticked up to stop operating by January 19th of this year, nine months ago,

1:19.2

eight months ago, who knows what month it is?

1:21.4

And that law was signed.

1:26.1

The Supreme Court ruled that it was legal nine to zero. And I guess

1:31.8

the Supreme Court doesn't have an army to enforce the law because Donald Trump's just like,

1:35.9

what-evs? What do you make of all this, Andrew? Yeah. So it was about seven months ago,

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