Facebook, which Trump considers an “enemy of the people” Former President Donald Trump has claimed that he backed down from trying to get TikTok banned in the US because of the video-sharing platform’s popularity among young Americans and his reluctance to help strengthen rival social media giant Facebook.

“Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it,” Trump said on Monday in a CNBC interview. “There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it.” He added, “There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok, but the thing I don’t like is that without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”