Trump joins TikTok and calls it 'an honor.' As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing app

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

91% : Trump received an enthusiastic welcome at the fight at Newark's Prudential Center, where the crowd broke into chants of "We love Trump!"
90% : The video ends with Trump telling the camera: "That was a good walk-on, right?"By Sunday morning, Trump had amassed more than 1.1 million followers on the platform and the post had garnered more than 1 million likes and 24 million views.
76% : "It's an honor," Trump said in the TikTok video, which features footage of him waving to fans and posing for selfies at the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night.
58% : "He was asked how his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, has taken the news.
54% : Former President Donald Trump attends the UFC 302 mixed martial arts event Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Newark, N.J. (Frank Franklin II/AP)Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
46% : Trump has maintained he did nothing wrong and plans to appeal the verdict.
43% : Throughout his campaign, Trump has used appearances at UFC fights to project an image of strength and to try to appeal to potential voters who may not closely follow politics or engage with traditional news sources.
41% : "Trump, as he has throughout the trial, maintained his innocence, saying he "did absolutely nothing wrong.
35% : In that appearance, Trump said he was "OK" with the prospect of potential jail time or house arrest, saying it was "the way it is.'''But he again suggested the public might not accept such a punishment for a former president now running to return to the White House.
30% : There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it," Trump told CNBC.
30% : She did not appear with Trump in court at any point during his seven-week trial.
28% : It was Trump's first public outing since a jury in New York found him guilty Thursday on 34 charges of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by covering up hush money payments made to a porn actor who claimed she and Trump had sex.
26% : As president, Trump tried to ban TikTok through an executive order that said "the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned" by Chinese companies was a national security threat.

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