WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump returned to TikTok on Monday, posting for the first time since the 2024 election to tout his recent approval of a deal for the app’s Chinese parent company to spin off a U.S. version of the wildly popular video app.

Speaking from behind the Resolute Desk, the president took credit for rescuing TikTok after Congress passed legislation last year to force ByteDance, its Beijing-based owner, to sell the app or face a ban in the United States over concerns about the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s influence.

“To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big,” Trump said. “And now you’re looking at me in the Oval Office, and someday one of you are going to be sitting right at this desk, and you’re going to be doing a great job also.

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