Former President Donald Trump’s new TikTok account has more than 4 million followers as of Monday afternoon, over 10 times the followers of the Biden-Harris HQ’s account.
Trump has so far posted one video on his TikTok account, which features UFC President Dana White introducing him on the platform. That single video has been viewed 69 million times. The account was launched on Saturday, only a couple of days after the former president was found guilty of all 34 counts in his hush money trial in Manhattan, becoming the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony crime.
Biden-Harris HQ, an account promoting President Joe Biden and his reelection campaign, was launched in mid-February and so far has about 347,000 followers. The account got off to a slow start upon launch, gaining only 56,800 followers.
The latest video from Biden-Harris HQ discusses the report claiming that Trump once used the N-word when discussing his reality television show, The Apprentice, and only has about 1.3 million views since it was posted on Sunday. The account as a whole has received 4.5 million likes, only about half a million more than the likes Trump’s sole video on his account has received in two days.
Biden has been using TikTok despite signing a bill that would potentially ban the social media platform in the United States. The bill, signed in April, requires TikTok to completely divest itself from ByteDance, a Chinese technology company, or risk being banned.
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Ahead of Biden signing the bill, Trump said younger people need to remember that “crooked Joe Biden” was responsible for banning the platform.
The former president himself once advocated banning TikTok during his presidency, though he has since shifted his stance on the platform, warning that banning TikTok would only make Facebook a larger platform. Trump also called Facebook the “enemy of the people,” likely in reference to how the platform, along with Twitter, censored a story related to Hunter Biden in October 2020, only a few weeks before the presidential election.