特朗普对TikTok的态度转变及相关事件发展

根据媒体报道，在2025年的形势下，共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普有着引人关注的表态。尽管中国母公司字节跳动面临未能出售TikTok美国资产并可能遭到禁止的情况，但特朗普明确表示他支持TikTok。

特朗普在周二发布的彭博商业周刊采访中称：“我支持TikTok，因为你需要竞争。如果没有TikTok，那就只有Facebook和Instagram。”要知道，此前特朗普曾将TikTok视为威胁，然而上个月他却已加入TikTok。

值得一提的是，特朗普曾严厉批评Facebook和Instagram的母公司Meta Platforms，原因是在2021年1月6日国会山暴乱事件后，Meta将他的账号暂停了两年。在6月接受采访时，特朗普还表示他永远不会支持禁止TikTok。回顾过往，特朗普曾在2020年试图禁止TikTok和微信，不过被法院阻止。到了2021年6月，拜登总统撤销了特朗普时代一系列旨在禁止微信和TikTok的行政命令。

特朗普持有社交媒体公司特朗普媒体科技集团（DJT.O）的大部分股权，该公司运营着竞争对手网络Truth Social。虽说其季度营收约为77万美元（约合人民币500万元），仅相当于两家美国星巴克店的营收水平，但特朗普媒体的市值却高达70亿美元。

华盛顿特区巴尔的摩哥利法院的听证会颇具关键意义，它将把TikTok的命运置于2024年总统选举的最后几周之中。这项由拜登于4月24日签署的法律，要求字节跳动在1月19日之前出售TikTok，否则将面临禁令。白宫方面表示，出于国家安全考虑，希望看到基于中国的所有权结束，但并不希望禁止TikTok。拜登的竞选团队于2月就已加入TikTok。

从互联网信息角度来看，TikTok在美国的发展一直备受关注，其庞大的用户群体让它成为社交领域的重要力量。而特朗普态度的转变也引发了诸多猜测。一方面，特朗普作为政治人物，其商业利益和政治立场之间或许有着复杂的关联。他持有特朗普媒体科技集团的股份，或许希望通过表达对TikTok的支持，来为自己旗下的公司营造有利的竞争环境。另一方面，TikTok自身的影响力也是不容忽视的。它以独特的短视频形式吸引了大量美国用户，拥有广泛的社交网络效应。即使面临被禁止的威胁，其在用户心中的地位依然稳固。这也促使特朗普重新审视TikTok，认识到其在社交竞争格局中的价值。

图片来源于APnews

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he supports TikTok even as a potential ban looms if Chinese-parent company ByteDance fails to divest the short video app's U.S. assets.

"I’m for TikTok because you need competition. If you don’t have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram," Trump told Bloomberg BusinessWeek in an interview posted Tuesday. Trump previously called TikTok, which is used by 170 million Americans, a threat but then joined TikTok last month.

Trump, who has criticized Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram(META.O)for suspending him for two years in the wake of the deadly Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6, 2021, told an interviewer in June he would never support a TikTok ban.

TikTok declined to comment. As president, Trump tried to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat in 2020 but the move was blocked by the courts. In June 2021, President Joe Biden withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban WeChat and TikTok.

Trump holds a majority stake in social media company Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT.O) that operates rival network Truth Social. Trump Media has a $7 billion market cap despite quarterly revenue of around $770,000 - comparable to two U.S. Starbucks shops.

In September, a U.S. appeals court will hold oral arguments on legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

The hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will put the fate of TikTok in the middle of the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election.

Signed by Biden on April 24, the law gives ByteDance until Jan. 19 to sell TikTok or face a ban. The White House says it wants to see Chinese-based ownership ended on national security grounds, but not a ban on TikTok. Biden's campaign joined TikTok in February.

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