Trump Says TikTok Poses National Security Threat

Former President Donald Trump expressed his conviction that social media app TikTok presents a threat to U.S. national security. However, he reiterated apprehensions that a ban on the application would favor rivals such as Facebook. In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on March 11, when asked if he considers TikTok a threat to national security, President Trump responded, “I do believe that. “I do believe it, and we have to very much admit we are protecting American people’s privacy and data rights,” he said. During his term in office, President Trump worked to prohibit TikTok’s continued use in its current state via an executive order that characterized “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China” a threat to “the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”...