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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:11 PM Oct 2025

Trump posts message for Gen Zers on TikTok: 'You owe me big'

President Donald Trump says TikTok users owe him "big."

In his first TikTok post since the 2024 election, Trump said that he "saved" the popular short-form video platform, though the deal has not yet been finalized.

To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big," Trump said in a video filmed in the Oval Office. "And now, you're looking at me in the Oval Office, and someday one of you is going to be sitting right at this desk, and you're going to be doing a great job also."

Last week, Trump signed an executive order approving a US group of buyers for a deal valued at around $14 billion. Trump said Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, will be part of the deal. Analysts had previously estimated that TikTok was worth significantly more. China and TikTok have yet to comment on where things stand.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-posts-message-gen-zers-155430405.html

Needy Amin says what?

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Trump posts message for Gen Zers on TikTok: 'You owe me big' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
Even odds the deal is bullshit Aviation Pro Oct 2025 #1
The new owners are going to ruin it newdeal2 Oct 2025 #2
My guess, someone told him young voters who voted for him... Xolodno Oct 2025 #3
They do owe him big: his MAGA courts killed Biden's SAVE plan and ordered interest to begin accruing again on August 1st W_HAMILTON Oct 2025 #4
The New tic Toc won't be the same as the old version FloridaBlues Oct 2025 #5

Xolodno

(7,367 posts)
3. My guess, someone told him young voters who voted for him...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:41 PM
Oct 2025

...are turning against him and someone told him about it. And given his "transactional" nature, he think threatening them will bring them back. It won't.

He doesn't comprehend, younger generations are way more tech savy and would find ways around the ban. There is always a video somewhere that tells you how to get around something if you are willing to put in the effort.

W_HAMILTON

(10,438 posts)
4. They do owe him big: his MAGA courts killed Biden's SAVE plan and ordered interest to begin accruing again on August 1st
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:49 PM
Oct 2025

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