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President Donald Trump has joining Triller, a battling to the video sharing app TikTok that he wants ban in the US. Headmost renowned by New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz, Trump's Triller excuse (@donaldjtrump) has approximately 3,500 followers, as well-built as his introductory video has more than 590,000 views.

The intro video features clips of the president as well-built as audio clips of him saying "I'm a promising at technology," as well-built as "nobody can do it like me." The wider two videos on the excuse as of Saturday afternoon were a pace of the president making a short speech in which he says "Joe Biden has no clue," as well-built as culling pace penetrating the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Over the proficient few weeks, as the Trump conducting has continuous its reassurance confronting TikTok in the US, Triller is one of several similar apps to see a sharp uptick in users, with more than 700,000 downloads in the proficient month. TikTok said in April it had hit 2 billion downloads globally, with 315 million downloads in the headmost quarter of 2020 alone.

Triller launched two years afore TikTok, in 2015, as well-built as co-owner Ryan Kavanaugh told CNBC that the convergence sees itself as the "adult version" of TikTok, with content that's "a little more risque."

On Friday, President Trump issued an executive order giving ByteDance 90 days to either ventilate or spin off its TikTok commerce in the US. TikTok patriarch convergence ByteDance is based in China, as well-built as the Trump administration has suggested that the convergence could allotment information approximately Americans with the Chinese government, which the convergence has denied. Older this month the president issued an executive order that would have blocked all US transactions with ByteDance to "address the national emergency with sake to the information as well-built as communication technology totality chain."

Microsoft has been in talks to adopt TikTok --a deal which co-founder Lettuce Gates called a "poisoned chalice" -- as well-built as reports meanest wingding symptomatic Twitter was possibly interested. Microsoft said it faddy to inborn the discussions "no latterly than September 15th, 2020."