Mosheh Oinounou
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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They're already talking about one, what Trump calls one large, beautiful bill that will include all of his priorities, the extension of his tax cuts from 2017, immigration measures, reversing Biden climate initiatives, a variety of domestic energy production initiatives. So there's going to be a lot and we'll try to get to all of them.
He's going to try to be very busy at the front part of his goal. So some even some of the controversial things, if there's like six controversial things in a day, it's hard to cover all those things. Well, that's part of the goal here is a shock and awe, according to officials around Washington.
uh trump shock and awe in terms of the number of things he has promised in the coming hours and coming days jill you mentioned the tiktok thing we'll get to that in that next story keep in mind a place to ask questions about all this the mo news premium page uh if you're not already a member mo.news a free trial to become a premium member it's an instagram members only page where you ask questions and we break down everything that you want to know and the questions you have related to all of that and everything else going on the news
Jill, I was watching X. I knew that something was popping. I didn't realize how early it was, but I was in my friend's basement watching NFL playoff football. Yourself?
Anticlimactic.
But and then it was back.
So listen, ByteDance was proving a point this weekend. They didn't need to completely go dark. They decided to go dark. Officially, it was on the internet service providers to stop accepting updates and drop them from the store. They didn't need to go dark on existing users, but they did. Why would they do such a thing?
Well, number one, they asked explicitly for a written assurance from Joe Biden. They wouldn't enforce a law. You know, their legal team looked at it and they're like, I know that you say you won't going to enforce it. That's what the Biden team said effectively on Friday, but they didn't put it out formally. The TikTok team, the ByteDance team, I should say ByteDance owns TikTok.
Was looking for more. And the Biden team was like, no, we're not going to do anything more than that. Besides just saying, don't don't worry about it. Trump will deal with it on Monday. So they got a chance this weekend to remind 170 million Americans or however many of them noticed who have the app and love the app of what life is like.
Without TikTok for at least a few hours with the prospect of not knowing how long it would last. In fact, they also made a move to shut down another app called Capcom, which many creators, marketing folks and video editors use. It's a mobile video editing app, which also happens to be owned by ByteDance. So they wanted to make a point this weekend of what life is like.
With that, they're in a negotiation, right? ByteDance and the Chinese government above them does not want to sell to anybody else. They want to come to a compromise here that doesn't entail selling TikTok. So they made this move. They tried to push public support here. It also gives Trump a win here.
It gives Trump a chance to be like, and look, you know, as simple as it was, I made an assurance to them on Sunday and poof, I'm the guy who saved TikTok for many of you. You saw that in their messaging. They made a point of praising Donald Trump. Shou Chu, among the many tech CEOs you mentioned that will be in Washington today for the inauguration. And Trump is the dealmaker.
You know, he wants to go to China this year, according to an NBC report. He wants to visit there. He had a call with the Chinese leader on Friday. They put out a readout that included among the many topics he says he discussed TikTok. So he understands that this is significant for many Americans. Remember, some Americans run businesses on TikTok. It's hugely impactful to some people.
But at the same time, there are huge national security concerns. Why do they ban it? Over the Chinese ability to potentially mess with the algorithm and influence. I mean, it was so many concerns on the national security level that overwhelming majorities of Republicans and Democrats in Capitol Hill decided to vote for said ban.
Now, the TikTok folks say there's got to be some sort of compromise here in terms of preserving American privacy and information security on servers here in the U.S. We'll see what comes of this 90 day extension. Expect legal maneuvers. I mean, guys, just this is going to be messy. This is the law of the land. Trump's going to make a push here. He even has people in his own party who are opposed.
This Tom Cotton, a Republican senator from Arkansas, said over the weekend, any company that hosts, distributes services or otherwise facilitates communist controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars in ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but from state AGs, shareholder lawsuits, securities law. That's a Republican. That's a Trump supporter.
There's some Republicans that are very hard here on the Chinese issue. By the way, one of them was Donald Trump not so long ago. He was the first guy who wanted to ban TikTok during his first term before he decided to turn over a new leaf on TikTok in recent years. Unclear exactly why that is. Now, some of his big supporters are TikTok people. And so there's that.
And some of his big donors are TikTokers. TikTok or ByteDance investors. And so as many people are drawing the line there, at the same time, Trump has now said he wants to save TikTok. And so we're going to watch all of this. But they made a point this weekend. A lot of people heard them. As I mentioned at the top, some people in the Modus community said their kids were in tears.
Over the weekend, without the prospect of TikTok for a few hours, someone joked to us, Jill, that there could be a lot of TikTok babies, or I should say TikTok band babies in nine months from the night without TikTok. So, you know, I got a good note from a couple of people being like, wait, what should I do tonight? Because normally it's just me on TikTok. Do I have to talk to my spouse tonight?
Well, not for some, some people, it was very, it was very dramatic and emotional for some people, Jill, not you, others.
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