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President Donald Trump on Friday attributes to the late Charlie Kirk To make Tiktok available in the United States when announcing an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Talk to Oval Office reporters on Friday trump card Share said he successfully made a call with Jinping on Friday morning and he reached a deal to allow the social media platform to provide some ownership rights to U.S. users, making the social media platform available to U.S. business leaders.
He said that Chinese leaders, American youth and even conservative leaders want to provide the platform in the United States
“Tiktok’s deal is going well,” he said.
Photos of President Donald Trump on Sunday, September 14, and the murder of Charlie Kirk of Utah Valley University on Wednesday, September 10. ((L) Francis Chung via Getty Images, (R) Tess Crowley via AP)
He pointed out the platform’s popularity among American youth and stressed that Kirk encouraged it to interact with young people.
“Charlie loves Tiktok very much; he loves Tiktok.” “He said, you know, ‘You should use it.'”
Trump believes Kirk has used social media platforms such as Tiktok to gain “a large number of youth” to vote for him and the Republicans in 2024.
“If you look at my numbers, Republicans have done something similar before. We get a lot of youth and Charlie Kirk helps a lot,” he said, adding, “It might have had a big impact on the election because we win a lot of elections.”
President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on August 26, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
This is because Trump repeatedly delayed the enforcement of laws passed by Congress in 2024 to ban Tiktok in the United States China Go to the United States.
Trump said Tiktok’s U.S. business will be “controlled by a very strong, very powerful American people” after negotiations with Jinping.
“It’s a lot for our country. It’s a lot for all young people across the country and people in general,” he said.
Trump admitted that he was initially opposed to Tiktok, saying: “I’m not a Tiktok fan and then I had to use it and became a fan, which helped me win the election on the slopes.”
White House Releases Video to Charlie Kirk
Trump said he was not a Tiktok fan at first, but later praised the platform for helping him win the 2024 election. (Getty Image)
“I made a great call with President Xi Jinping, you approved the Tiktok deal, and we are doing the process. We have some great investors, some of the world’s largest investors, American investors, great people, and we look forward to ending the deal,” he said.
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Trump said on the pressure to see whether the deal was fully approved: “I think that’s the case. When you say it’s fully approved, I don’t know what it means, we have to sign it, I think. I think it might be a form. I find his words very well.”
“They want to see it, and I can tell you that young people in our country want to see it have a poor open rate,” he said of China.
