President Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to rejoice his newest accomplishment – chalking up 339 billion all-time views on TikTok.
The president posted a 15-day-old Year in Review roundup of statistics for his account on the social video app within the early hours of Tuesday, cheering the success of his output on the platform.
Trump spent a lot of final yr serving to to barter an settlement between the app’s Chinese homeowners, ByteDance, and a consortium of American buyers to spin off TikTok U.S. into its personal enterprise to allay issues about privateness and the potential misuse of customers’ information.
He lastly introduced “the framework of a deal” in September, which was signed final month.
The president’s different Truth Social posts on Monday included assaults on the media for not giving his tariff coverage sufficient optimistic protection and on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and rebellious Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.
The numbers touted by Trump embrace “201 billion views in 2025 of MAGA TikToks,” “166 billion views in 2025 of TRUMP TikToks,” “6 billion views in 2025 of FLOTUS TikToks” in addition to “826 million views in 2025 of AMERICAFIRST TikToks.”
The president additionally proclaimed that his inauguration generated six billion views, his speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial celebration generated 4 billion views as did his speeches on “Trump peace deals.”
Trump additionally celebrated being the most-followed world chief on the platform and producing probably the most views of any politician.
Fawning quotes from unidentified customers accompany the put up, “Whoever runs this account is an absolute legend,” one fan wrote.
On Monday, Trump introduced revisions to the nation’s Childhood Vaccination Schedule, that means juveniles will obtain fewer vaccinations, probably rising their vulnerability to illness.
Trump’s sudden shift in focus again in the direction of home issues comes after he spent the post-Christmas interval in search of peace in Ukraine and Gaza by assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, solely to then launch an astonishing army raid on Venezuela.
The nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his spouse Cilia Flores have been captured by U.S. particular forces over the weekend as Caracas was bombed and its energy provide minimize. The couple was duly flown to New York to reply narco-conspiracy expenses in a federal courthouse.
A defiant Maduro appeared in entrance of a choose earlier Monday to plead not responsible and insisted he was nonetheless Venezuela’s rightful president and being held as a prisoner of struggle.
“I’m harmless,” he informed U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan. “I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country.”
His former deputy, Delcy Rodriguez, has been sworn in as his interim substitute and is claimed to be cooperating with the Trump administration, which has claimed final accountability for the “running” of the South American oil state.
A small group of U.S. directors, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is anticipated to make choices on behalf of the nation till an election might be held and a steady new authorities introduced in. However, Trump has dominated that out in the interim.
“We have to fix the country first,” he mentioned Monday. “You can’t have an election. There is no way the people could even vote. We have to nurse the country back to health.”
Discussing the intervention in Venezuela over the weekend, Trump and Rubio issued threats to different powers within the area, together with Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba, and the administration has since revived discuss of seizing Greenland.
Appearing on CNN Monday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller insisted the U.S. is a “superpower”. It will conduct itself as such within the curiosity of safeguarding its geopolitical pursuits.
But Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned in an handle: “If the United States decides to militarily attack another NATO country, then everything would stop – that includes NATO and therefore post-Second World War security.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tiktok-data-truth-social-b2895171.html