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U.S. Vice President JD Vance has relaunched his TikTok account with his first video on that network as vice president, the same day that President Donald Trump also published his first message there as president to emphasize that his Administration has "saved" that platform.
"Hey guys, JD Vance here. Just want you to know that we're relaunching the VP's TikTok page. I'd gotten a little lazy in recent months, focused on the work of being VP, not enough on TikTok, but that's gonna change," Vance said Monday night.
In this new phase, they will add, they will report on what is happening in the White House and in the country and will include "from time to time" some "hat memes".
By the end of September, the White House had mocked Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries with an artificial intelligence-generated video in which he appears with a mustache and a Mexican hat.
Vance has 2.6 million followers on TikTok. He presents himself as a Christian, husband, father, and, lastly, Vice President of the United States, and only follows three accounts, all related to the president or the Trumpist movement: @realdonaldtrump, @teamtrump, and @maga.
His last TikTok dated back to November 4, 2024, a day before the presidential elections, in which he encouraged people to vote for Trump.
"This is a six-pack under the leadership of Kamala Harris," he said with six cans of beer in his hand, then pointing to Old Style brand storage tanks in La Crosse, Wisconsin, designed to look like a giant replica of those cans, to make it clear that's what could be expected from a new Republican government.
"Let's Make America Great Again," said the then-vice presidential candidate, repeating Trump's slogan (MAGA) and criticizing the Democratic rival in those elections.
On Monday, Trump had addressed the younger people in his first video posted on TikTok since he returned to the White House.
"To all those TikTok youths, I saved TikTok, so you owe me one," said the Republican leader in that video where he is sitting in his office.
On September 25, he signed an executive order guaranteeing the "safe" and legal operation of the platform in the U.S. after reaching an agreement with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
In 2024, Congress established that to protect national security, TikTok should be shut down in the U.S. if a company operating the application in the North American country was not established, sufficiently detached from the Chinese parent company, especially regarding Beijing's access to servers that store user data.
According to the White House, the American tech giant Oracle will be in charge of ensuring the security of the algorithm.
