Former President Donald Trump disappointed his followers in 3 separate social media posts in 48 hours, ranging from a rebuke of President Joe Biden’s claims about the COVID-19 vaccine, opposing the TikTok ban, and congratulating Senator Katie Britt for her reaction to Biden’s condition. the front of the union (SOTU).
During Biden’s SOTU speech Thursday night, Trump, who is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee in November, criticized him on his social media platform, Truth Social.
In an article, Trump quoted Biden about the COVID-19 vaccine and then took credit for the vaccine’s arrival amid the pandemic.
“‘The pandemic is no longer in our lives. The vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer. Turning backhand into backhand!’ You’re welcome, JOE, APPROVAL TIME OF NINE MONTHS COMPARED TO 12 YEARS WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU!” the former president wrote.
Newsweek reached out to Trump’s campaign via email for comment.
Trump’s post received backlash on X, formerly Twitter. Many Republicans opposed the COVID-19 shot and the federal vaccine mandates that were implemented under the Biden administration.
“The degree of anger I feel about this can be quantified in words,” Tracy Beanz, editor-in-chief of conservative media outlet UncoverDC, wrote Friday.
“Almost everything that makes you angry about the authoritarian government response to the pandemic started with the Trump administration,” wrote commentator Matt Kibbe. “Reminder: Biden simply doubled down on the same policies.”
Ryan Matta, a personality on conservative streaming site Rumble, wrote: “@realDonaldTrump will be wearing @pfizer hat at his next rally! WTF is wrong with this man? Who the F*** would say this s***! We all have friends family and children we know who we’re murders by these vaccines!”
Late Thursday night, Trump posted to Truth Social about TikTok, a social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as TikTok claims that the bill would amount to a ban.
“If we get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their revenue. I don’t need Facebook, which cheated in the last election, to do better. They are a real enemy of the people!” He wrote.
Members of the U. S. -China Communist Party’s House Select Committee on Strategic Competition introduced a bill this week, which was approved by the Energy Committee by a bipartisan vote of 50-0, and Commerce, that would “encourage divestment from TikTok” by excluding it from the mobile app. retail outlets in the United States and create executive powers to attack social media corporations controlled by a “foreign adversary. “The proposed bill will now go to the full U. S. House of Representatives for a vote.
Trump seemed to update his brain on TikTok, considering that, as president, in August 2020, he issued an executive order ordering ByteDance to sell its U. S. assets. U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and destroy all data within 90 days.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham wrote on X on Friday: “This is a big mistake on the part of the Trump campaign: Trump claims that banning TikTok would only hurt Facebook. “
HuffPost senior political reporter Igor Bobic wrote to X on Friday that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , disagreed with Trump’s comments.
“I’m a fan of Facebook, but TikTok is a qualitatively different business. It’s a back door for the Chinese Communist Party,” Hawley told Bobic.
Steve Bannon, a conservative media personality and Trump’s former White House chief strategist, wrote on Gettr on Saturday about Trump’s new stance on TikTok: “Simple: Yass Coin.”
Bannon was referring to billionaire Jeff Yass, who has a $33 billion stake in Bytedance. Last week, Trump spoke at the Club for Growth retreat where he called Yass “fantastic,” despite the billionaire being critical of Trump in the past.
The former president also earned some complaints for his reaction to Sen. Katie Britt’s attack on Biden’s SOTU speech. The Alabama Republican criticized Biden’s border security policies and called the president a “hesitant, reductive leader” in a video that was widely mocked.
Trump posted late Thursday night: “Katie Britt was a GREAT contrast to an Angry, and obviously very Disturbed, ‘President.’ She was compassionate and caring, especially concerning Women and Women’s Issues. Her conversation on Migrant Crime was powerful and insightful. Great job Katie!”
“I thought she was terrible! And I am on your side,” Truth Social user @MaryUSAfan1776 replied to Trump’s post.
User @Kjkj629 wrote: “It was actually pretty embarrassing.. Her speech was okay.. but her delivery was terrible.”
Reacting to Trump’s post, @insidetrackcoach user commented, “Strongly disagree. We didn’t want a bedtime story. We have denounced the laundromat [sic], explained the silly expenses, and addressed the fact that the border may have been closed by order. The Republican rebuttal was null and void.
Update 3/10/24, 9:40 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.
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