Trump Joins Social Media Platform, Gets Millions Of Followers Within Hours

Former President Donald Trump joined TikTok and gained more than 2.5 million followers within hours.

Trump, 77, the presumptive Republican nominee, shared his initial post showcasing his night at the UFC 302 pay-per-view event in Newark on Saturday (June 1), which included being introduced on the app by longtime friend and UFC president Dana White.

“The president is now on TikTok,” White said.

"It's my honor," Trump added in the mashup, which showed him greeting fans and walking through the Prudential Center.

"That was a good walk-on, right?" Trump said at the end of the 13-second video.

Trump's initial post has more than 45.2 million views as of Sunday (June 2) afternoon. The former president's TikTok launch comes nearly four full years after he issued an executive order that would've banned the app in the United States, citing national security concerns.

Trump changed his stance earlier this year while arguing that banning TikTok would empower Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, while criticizing a bill signed by President Joe Biden to threaten to ban the app in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, refuses to sell it.

“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump, wrote on his Truth Social account in April. “He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party.”

Trump launched Truth Social while banished from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, now known as X, after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 6, 2021.