Welcome to the Tech Meant Right Home for Wednesday, July 17th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Sorry, we got to do more politics. Can't avoid it because now Trump likes

tic-talk and seemingly hates Mark Zuckerberg.

Mistrel's two new models, a big pixel phone

leak, and the interesting new sketch to image AI tool on the new Galaxy phones.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Yes, more politics. I'll explain why in a second, but in a new interview

Donald Trump said, quote, I'm for Tik-Tok because you need competition and

quote, if you don't have Tik-Tok you have Facebook and

Facebook and Instagram and quote that's Zuckerberg.

More specifically quote at Maralago the one exception to his claim to not want to harm U.S. tech companies and to privileged domestic ones over foreign ones is Tic-Tock.

Discussing his recent embrace of the Chinese-owned social media platform where he's already quite popular.

Trump mentions that banning it in the US would benefit a company and a CEO.

He has no desire to reward.

Quote, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm for Tik-Tok because you need competition, he says. If you don't have Tik-Tok because you need competition he says if you don't

have Tik-Tok you have Facebook and Instagram and that's you know that's Zuckerberg it's an

outcome he won't abide he's still stung by Facebook's decision to bar him indefinitely in the wake of the January 6th attacks.

Quote, all of the sudden, Trump growls's I went from number one to having nobody, end quote.

His reversal on cryptocurrency has been marked by similar dynamics.

Not long ago he criticized Bitcoin as a quote scam and a quote disaster waiting to happen.

Now he says it and other cryptocurrency should be quote made in the USA.

He frames this about face as a practical necessity.

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