Trump's Announcement on TikTok's Return – Full Transcript
My fellow Americans, tremendous news today, just tremendous. The kids will be Tiking and Toking again; I’m bringing it back. They are saying they love to Tik, they love to Tok, so I said I’ll bring it back. I love to Tik and Tok. Some people are upset. They said, “You can’t Tik like that, you can’t Tok,” but for $250 million direct to the Mar-a-Lago coffers, I think I can Tik a little, just a little. Not very much Tiking for me at my age anymore, but when I was younger, I would Tik and Tok – more than anyone else, some would say. It’s a beautiful thing, to Tik and to Tok. It’s beautiful. Very beautiful.
My beautiful family is here with me today. Barron, so tall, the tallest, tallest of all-est, but sometimes he stands on his toes to cheat, so you have to keep checking his feet. I’m back in office now; I’m back, and with me, TikTok is coming back. The Chinese – they are good people; they have the best apps. Not better than mine, of course. Truth Social – it’s fantastic, the highest engagement. I see some engagement numbers sometimes and say, “Wow! That’s a lot of engagement, that’s a lot of DAU.”
TikTok is good too, though. The Chinese make the apps, maybe a little bit too good, some would say. They say, “That’s a good app,” but nobody would be using it if not for me. Because I’m bringing it right back. My SCOTUS banned it, but they didn’t get $500 million direct to their bank accounts, so they banned it. I put them in office too. They don’t understand, so I’m bringing it back, and Gen Z will love me for it. They already love me, did you see? More Gen Z voters voted for me than anyone else, the biggest. They love me.
I didn’t and won’t pay their student loans, the Gen Z, but they love me anyway because I will bring them the Tik and the Tok, which is what they love most. Some of them Tik, some of them Tok, it’s up to them, really. They can choose, it’s a free country. I choose to do both, some Tiks and some Toks. Really, it’s the same to me. How could I be upset? For only $1 billion in gold bars direct to my private vault just to bring back one app, the IRS doesn’t even know.
I won’t even have an IRS soon. They always try to take the money, always counting, trying to find the cash. There isn’t any cash. The cash is the Tiks. The cash is the Toks. I got $2.5 billion in Bitcoin to turn an app on. How’s the IRS going to find that? The kids love me; they love the TikTok. It’s coming back, and everyone is going to be so, so happy.
Everyone can look at their phones again. It’s a beautiful thing. The screens are so bright now, just so bright. It’s really fantastic. I look at my phone and go, “That’s bright. That’s much brighter than I thought it would be.” It’s a good thing TikTok has optimized the algorithm so well that the brightness is maximally entertaining and maximally not mentioning Tiananmen Square. Taiwan makes the chips, but we’re bringing it back. Tariffs are what we need. I’ll have so many tariffs. I’ll have TikTokTariffs. Mixing TikTariffs with TokTariffs. I’ll have the best tariffs. Believe me, nobody’s going to beat my tariffs.
God bless TikTok. And God bless America.
President Donald J. Trump