Donald Trump Opposes TikTok Ban Because It Would Boost Business for Facebook and ‘Zuckerschmuck,’ the ‘True Enemy of the People’
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok, the massively popular video app owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, apparently has an ally in Donald Trump.
The former U.S. president expressed opposition to a national ban of TikTok not for, say, First Amendment reasons but because such a move would likely boost the fortunes of Meta’s Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump, in a post Thursday evening on Truth Social, the social-media service he is affiliated with, called the CEO of Meta “Zuckerschmuck,” using the vulgar Yiddish word for penis. “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.
They are a true Enemy of the People!” As president, Trump — citing national security concerns over TikTok’s China ties — had sought to force TikTok parent ByteDance to sell its stake in the app, but that effort was shot down by federal courts.
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