Donald Trump has joined Triller.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

The US President has decided to join the New-York-based rival to China's TikTok and has already gained more than 11,000 followers on the app.

Trump has been outspoken in his criticism of TikTok in recent months, and has previously announced he hopes to ban the app in the US, unless it sells its American arm to another firm.

The President has, in fact, already signed executive orders targeting the Chinese video-sharing app and Tencent's WeChat, another Chinese app.

Trump's plan comes amid ongoing tension between the US and China.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has recently been in talks about buying the US arm of TikTok, and Trump believes the American government should get a huge lump sum if the deal does eventually go through.

Speaking about the prospective move, Trump recently said: "The United States should get a very large percentage of that price, because we're making it possible.

"It would come from the sale, which nobody else would be thinking about but me, but that's the way I think, and I think it's very fair."


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