唐纳德·特朗普加入了流行的视频分享应用抖音他在白宫时曾试图禁止该平台终极格斗大赛两天前，他成为美国历史上第一位前总统和主要政党候选人被判重罪.
“这是一种荣誉，”特朗普在抖音的视频中说，视频中有他周六晚上在新泽西州纽瓦克举行的终极格斗冠军赛上向粉丝挥手并自拍的镜头。视频的最后，特朗普对着镜头说:“那是一次很好的跑龙套，对吗?”
截至周日上午，特朗普在该平台上积累了110多万粉丝，该帖子获得了100多万个赞和2400万次浏览量。
特朗普发言人张致恒在一份关于竞选团队决定加入该平台的声明中表示:“我们不会让任何战线不设防，这代表着我们将继续接触消费支持特朗普和反对拜登内容的年轻受众。”。
“没有比UFC活动更好的地方来推出川普总统的Tik Tok了，在那里他受到了英雄般的欢迎，成千上万的粉丝为他欢呼，”他补充道。
民主党总统拜登签署法规今年4月，这可能会在美国禁止抖音入境，尽管他的竞选团队在2月加入进来，并试图与有影响力的人士合作。
特朗普在纽瓦克的保德信中心受到了热烈欢迎，人群中爆发出“我们爱特朗普!”另一个用脏话侮辱拜登。
这是特朗普自纽约陪审团以来首次公开露面周四判他有罪34项指控涉及伪造商业记录，作为非法影响2016年大选的计划的一部分，掩盖封口费向一名色情演员支付的款项，该演员声称她和特朗普发生了性关系。特朗普坚称自己没有做错任何事，并计划对判决提出上诉。他将于7月11日被判刑。
在整个竞选过程中，特朗普在终极格斗锦标赛上露面塑造强势形象，并试图吸引可能不密切关注政治或不接触传统新闻来源的潜在选民。这也是与年轻人和少数族裔选民，特别是拉丁裔和黑人选民联系的更广泛努力的一部分。
字节跳动旗下的抖音是接触这些潜在选民的另一个机会。该平台在美国拥有约1.7亿用户，其中大多数用户偏年轻——由于他们不喜欢看电视，竞选活动很难触及这一人群。
作为总统，川普试图禁止抖音通过行政命令该报告称，“中国公司开发和拥有的移动应用在美国的传播”是一种国家安全威胁。法院阻止了行动抖音起诉后。
两者美国联邦调查局和联邦通信委员会我警告说，字节跳动可能会与中国政府共享用户数据，如浏览历史、位置和生物识别信息。抖音表示，它从未这样做过，如果有人问它，它也不会这样做。
该平台是2024年共和党初选期间的热门辩论话题，大多数候选人都避免使用该平台。包括前副总统迈克·彭斯在内的许多人呼吁在美国禁止抖音，因为它与中国有联系
法宝今年早些时候说他仍然相信抖音构成了国家安全风险，但反对禁止它，因为这将有助于其竞争对手脸书。他继续批评在2020年大选中输给拜登。
“坦率地说，抖音有很多人喜欢它。川普对美国消费者新闻与商业频道说:“抖音有很多年轻人没有它会发疯的。
拜登签署的立法给字节跳动九个月的时间出售公司，如果出售正在进行中，还可能再给三个月的时间。否则，抖音将被禁赛。拜登于2022年12月在大多数政府设备上禁止了该应用程序。
尽管如此，他的连任竞选活动还是使用了这款应用程序，该应用程序是在2月份的超级碗之夜加入的。助手们认为，在日益分散的现代媒体环境中，竞选团队必须通过尽可能多的平台向选民传达信息，包括抖音以及WhatsApp、脸书、Instagram和YouTube。
拜登的“bidenhq”账户目前拥有超过33万名粉丝和450万个赞。
川普在周六的比赛中露面之前，他接受了福克斯新闻频道频道“福克斯”的采访&周日播出的《朋友周末》。
在那次露面中，特朗普表示，他对潜在的监禁或软禁的前景“没意见”，称“事情就是这样”。'''
但他再次表示，公众可能不会接受对一位即将重返白宫的前总统进行这样的惩罚。
“你知道，我不知道公众会不会受得了。我不确定公众会不会支持这种做法，”他说。“我认为公众很难接受。你知道，在某一点上有一个转折点。”
特朗普，正如他在整个审判过程中所做的那样他坚称自己是无辜的，称自己“绝对没有做错任何事情。”
有人问他的妻子，前第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普如何看待这个消息。
“她很好。但我认为这对她来说很难。我是说，她很好。但是，你知道，她必须读所有这些废话，”他说。
在特朗普为期七周的审判中，她没有与特朗普一起出庭。
Trump joins TikTok, app he once tried to ban while president
Donald Trumphas joined the popularvideo-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from aUFC fighttwo days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to befound guilty on felony charges.
“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. 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.
“We will leave no front undefended and this represents the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement about the campaign's decision to join the platform.
“There’s no place better than a UFC event to launch President Trump’s Tik Tok, where he received a hero’s welcome and thousands of fans cheered him on," he added.
Democratic President Joe Biden signedlegislationin April that could ban TikTok in the U.S., even as his campaign joined in February and has tried to work with influencers.
Trump received an enthusiastic welcome at the fight at Newark's Prudential Center, where the crowd broke into chants of “We love Trump!” and another insulting Biden with an expletive.
It was Trump's first public outing since a jury in New Yorkfound him guilty Thursdayon 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. Trump has maintained he did nothing wrong and plans to appeal the verdict. He will be sentenced on July 11.
Throughout his campaign, Trump hasused appearances at UFC fightsto 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. It's also part of a broader effort to connect with young people and minority voters, particularly Latino and Black men.
TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is another opportunity to reach those potential voters. The platform has about 170 million users in the U.S., most of whom skew younger — a demographic that is especially hard for campaigns to reach because they shun television.
As president, Trump tried to ban TikTokthrough an executive orderthat said “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned" by Chinese companies was a national security threat. The courtsblocked the actionafter TikTok sued.
Both theFBI and the Federal Communications Commissionhave warned that ByteDance could share user data such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers with China’s government. TikTok said it has never done that and would not, if asked.
The platform was a hot topic of debate during the 2024 GOP primary campaign, with most candidates shunning its use. Many, including former Vice President Mike Pence, called for TikTok to be banned in the U.S. due to its connections with China
Trumpsaid earlier this year that he still believesTikTok posed a national security risk, but was opposed to banning it because that would help its rival, Facebook, which he continues to criticize over his 2020 election loss to Biden.
“Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,” Trump told CNBC.
The legislation signed by Bidengives ByteDance nine months to sell the company, with a possible additional three months if a sale is in progress. If it doesn’t, TikTok will be banned. Biden barred the app on most government devices in December 2022.
His reelection campaign nonetheless uses the app, which it joined the night of the Super Bowl in February. Aides argue that in an increasingly fragmented modern media environment, the campaign must get its message out to voters via as many platforms as possible, including TikTok as well as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Biden’s “bidenhq” account currently has more than 330,000 followers and 4.5 million likes.
Trump's appearance at Saturday's fight came after he had sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Fox&Friends Weekend" that aired Sunday.
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.
“I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know. I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” he said. “I think it would be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point there’s a breaking point.”
Trump,as he has throughout the trial, maintained his innocence, saying he “did absolutely nothing wrong.”
He was asked how his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, has taken the news.
“She’s fine. But I think it’s very hard for her. I mean, she’s fine. But, you know, she has to read all this crap," he said.
She did not appear with Trump in court at any point during his seven-week trial.
