Jason Derulo finds the likelihood of President Trump’s proposal to ban TikTok unlikely.
When asked about the potential end to the popular video-sharing app, the 30-year-old Savage Love singer revealed he does not ‘believe that will be the case, honestly.’
‘That would be a sad day for a lot of people, including myself,’ he told Page Six in a new interview. ‘I just have a lot of fun on the app, so it would be pretty sad, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.’
Optimistic: When asked about the potential end to the popular video-sharing app, Jason Derulo revealed he does not ‘believe that will be the case, honestly’
With a TikTok following of 30.9 million, the singer has generated more than 605 million likes cumulatively.
‘With TikTok, I’m able to show who I am, whereas in other apps I didn’t thrive as much because I couldn’t show me,’ Derulo said in a recent interview with Complex.
He added that the app has a ‘nice community, whereas I don’t think Instagram has that’ or Snapchat.
Viral content: With a TikTok following of 30.9 million, the singer has generated more than 605 million likes cumulatively
The trendsetter has been making his mark on TikTok by embracing prank trends, like pretending to lose his teeth after trying to eat corn on the cob from an active power drill.
Previously on the app, he tried to trick his followers into believing he lost a front tooth after falling into his swimming pool.
His other popular videos have also included doing stunts with his girlfriend and fitness instructor Jena Frumes, shaving off one of his eyebrows and showing off his talent in the kitchen.
‘That would be a sad day for a lot of people, including myself,’ he told Page Six in a new interview. ‘I just have a lot of fun on the app, so it would be pretty sad, but I don’t think it’s going to happen’
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued executive orders effectively banning the app in a dramatic escalation of tensions with Beijing that sent stocks tumbling worldwide overnight.
Using national emergency powers, Trump signed the orders, which give TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, 45 days to sell the app.
The orders also banned any U.S. transactions with WeChat owner Tencent, a major Chinese company that owns significant shares in Tesla, Snap Inc and Reddit.
Funny: The trendsetter has been making his mark on TikTok by jumping on prank trends, like pretending to lose his teeth after trying to eat corn on the cob from an active power drill
Tencent shares fell as much as 10 percent in Asian markets overnight, and it was not immediately clear whether the company would be forced to divest its U.S. holdings.
Coming days after the United States ordered China to vacate its consulate in Houston, the move looks set to trigger retaliatory action by Beijing, stoking fears that a ‘Silicon Curtain’ is descending between the two superpowers.
Beijing slammed the move as ‘arbitrary political manipulation and suppression’ and said it would come at the expense of American users and companies.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order giving the Chinese parent company of video sharing app TikTok 45 days to complete a sale (stock image)
In a statement, TikTok vowed to ‘pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure… our company and our users are treated fairly – if not by the Administration, then by the US courts.’
The move raised the possibility that Beijing could retaliate by banning major U.S. tech companies from China, a major market for some of the top American firms.
Amid growing security and privacy concerns about the TikTok’s Chinese ownership, Microsoft has reportedly been in talks to acquire TikTok in a firesale, and Trump’s order only increases pressure on ByteDance to get the deal done quickly.
WeChat owner Tencent owns Tencent Pictures, a Chinese film distributor and production company which has two major movies set for release in 2021 – Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick and Sony’s Monster Hunter. WeChat logo is seen left and Tik Tok right
Any company still doing business with ByteDance in 45 days will be subject to sanctions, Trump said. If a sale does not go through before the September 20 deadline, the order would effectively bar the use of TikTok throughout the U.S.
Trump’s executive order claims that TikTok ‘may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party,’ and specifically cites TikTok videos that ‘spread debunked conspiracy theories about the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.’
The order states that TikTok has reportedly been downloaded over 175 million times in the United States and over one billion times globally.