TikTok announced on Sunday that its services in the US have been restored after President-elect Donald Trump expressed plans to revive access to the China-based video-sharing platform through an executive order once he takes office on Monday.
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00:00The social media application TikTok thanks Donald Trump for restoration and service.
00:05TikTok has put out a statement,
00:07will work with President Trump for a solution.
00:10The app has given seven million small businesses to thrive,
00:15is what TikTok had said.
00:17Basically, Donald Trump gave out a statement and said,
00:20hired a TikToker and put the video on the app.
00:23Remember, this was amid the controversies that TikTok,
00:26which the ban had already been implemented by 19th of January.
00:30And it was a court case that was also going on.
00:32Remember, TikTok already has been banned in India over security reasons.
00:36It's a Chinese app.
00:37And there had been a statement even from China over why this app is being shut
00:42and is this a bar on foreign companies.
00:44However, TikTok has now decided to express its gratitude for Donald Trump for taking a stand.
00:48Ironically, Trump earlier wasn't supportive of a ban if required for TikTok.
00:53However, ahead of his second term, he appears to be in support of it and says
00:57that he's even hired one to be on the app.
01:02Let's listen.
01:04Before even taking office,
01:07you are already seeing results that nobody expected to see.
01:12Everyone is calling it the,
01:15I don't want to say this, it's too braggadocious, but we'll say it anyway,
01:19the Trump effect.
01:20It's you, you're the effect.
01:23And as of today, TikTok is back.
01:35So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing.
01:39We have a guy, TikTok Jack, he's a young kid, like 21 years old.
01:45And we hired this guy and I went on TikTok.
01:47Can you believe what I'll do to win an election?
01:50And we went on TikTok,
01:53and Republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote.
01:56They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote.
01:59We won the youth vote by 36 points.
02:02We have no choice.
02:03We have to save it a lot of jobs.
02:05We don't want to give our business to China.
02:07We don't want to give our business to other people.