President-elect Donald Trump will no doubt be tougher on the world stage than President Joe Biden ever dreamed of being, but that doesn’t mean his ego won’t still get in the way from time to time. His pandering to TikTok is one example.
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has until Sunday to sell TikTok in order for the app to remain in U.S. app stores, conditions set by bipartisan legislation passed last year. ByteDance is aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, and TikTok functions as Chinese spyware that circumvents app store protections. ByteDance has used the app to track the location of journalists, about which the people behind the app lied.
TikTok has needed to be sold off from Chinese ownership or banned, something Trump rightly recognized up until last year. That was when, as the bill was being considered, Trump flipped on the matter while complaining…
