During an exclusive interview with Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” on Sunday, former President Trump warned that U.S. lawmakers shouldn’t ban TikTok because it would benefit Facebook, which he called a “worse” social media platform.
Host Howard Kurtz prompted Trump, asking him why he apparently shifted his stance from supporting a ban of TikTok during his presidency to now disagreeing with the 197 Republicans who recently passed a bill to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell it.
“I just said, ‘You guys want it banned, if you want.’ And Congress probably didn’t want it banned, you know, etc. It wasn’t something that I was demanding,” he said, adding, “If I demanded it, I think I would have gotten it.”
The former president committed to signing an executive order to ban the app in 2020, telling reportersat the time, “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States. I have that authority. … It’s going …