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Professor: Trump not interested in security
AlArabiya English
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4/5/2025
Dr. Brian L Ott says Trump’s push against TikTok isn’t about national security but eliminating a major competitor.
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It's interesting because he wasn't keen on TikTok and then he kind of changed his mind
00:05
about it, didn't he, when he saw how much he was getting the younger voter involved
00:11
in TikTok.
00:12
So lots of people have been talking about that, but you mentioned national security
00:16
there.
00:17
TikTok is facing a ban due to national security concerns over the platform's links to China.
00:25
What risks do users face, and is Trump actually concerned about national security in this
00:31
sense?
00:32
I actually don't think President Trump is concerned about national security.
00:35
You can't have it both ways.
00:37
You can't say, on the one hand, that this platform is a danger or a risk to national
00:42
security and then have a 75-day period where you extend an opportunity for someone else
00:48
to come in as a buyer.
00:50
And yesterday, just yesterday, President Trump suggested that if he's not able to
00:55
close this deal, he'll just extend the deadline again.
00:58
We can't suggest, on the one hand, that it's a national security threat.
01:01
On the other hand, suggest that there's no deadline by which this has to be met.
01:07
So my sense of what's really going on here is that this is a tremendously successful
01:15
social media company that represented competition for U.S.-based social media companies, and
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this is really an attempt to eliminate competition for them.
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