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Barron Trump tipped for top job as dad cements control of platform used by 150million Americans
• https://www.dailymail.co, By CHARLIE SPIERINGTrump made his triumphant return to TikTok on Monday, sharing a video on his profile from the Oval Office that earned him over 6 million views in just a few hours.
'To all those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big,' the president said. 'And now you're looking at me in the Oval Office.'
The president signed an executive order to clear the way for investors to operate a United States version of the platform indicating the deal to save the platform was finally happening, despite months of delays.
'President Trump delivered on his promise to save TikTok and the millions of Americans who run their businesses and get their unfiltered news through the app,' Advent told the Daily Mail in reaction to the deal.
'TikTok Jack,' as Trump proudly referred to him on the campaign trail, is known as Jack Advent, who helped introduce the president to the wildly popular social media platform.
The details have yet to be settled, but the president's executive order requires that a majority of US investors would purchase the app and it would be operated in the United States with a seven-seat board of directors.
Advent praised the president's efforts exclusively to the Daily Mail, but proposed that the president include young people on the board.
'Young people are overwhelmingly the user base of TikTok. I'm hopeful President Trump will consider appointing his son Barron and maybe other young Americans to TikTok's board to help ensure it remains an app young people want to keep using,' he said.
For the president's communications and media team, the success of the TikTok deal represents a big step forward for young people on social media.
'Promises made, promises kept. President Trump recognizes TikTok is the favorite platform of America's youth and a powerful tool for small businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive,' former advisor for the Trump campaign Alex Bruesewitz told the Daily Mail. 'It is now here to stay.'
The TikTok ban was signed by President Joe Biden in 2024, but President Trump kept the platform alive until a deal to sell the U.S. version to non-Chinese owners could be settled.
Former White House deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said Republicans should celebrate the deal.
'Biden was going to just allow this thing to just end. There was no talk of a deal. The Democrats used TikTok to their benefit but they did nothing to save it, so this was an opportunity for the president to show leadership and he did,' Fields told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview.