‘Conservative Hype House’ Comes Out Against Trump’s TikTok Ban

Trump on Friday told reporters that he intends to ban the app as soon as Saturday, possibly taking executive action to do so.

“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said.

The U.S. government has long expressed concern over the potential national security implications of the app. The Pentagon, in particular, has urged U.S. service members and their families to avoid putting the app on their phones.

But the Conservative Hype House further pushed back on Trump’s remarks by calling TikTok, which has 80 million daily users, a trustworthy app.

“TikTok has an American CEO, and they’ve taken measures to make sure that the Chinese government cannot seize any information harvested on Americans,” Higby says. “Every company, every social media company, harvest your information for marketing purposes. TikTok does the same thing except they live in a country where their government could seize that information.”

Higby goes on to stress that data on American users has been moved to servers “where the [Chinese] government cannot seize that information.”

“So I do not understand why this is happening,” he says.

Higby also pushed back on the assertion that Trump’s decision is based more on personal gain than national security.