Trump Cabinet members join TikTok following Justice Department ruling overturning government ban.

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed he is joining TikTok in a video posted on Tuesday. The clip shows him sitting down, fixing his tie, and squeezing a stress ball before facing the camera to declare, "Ok, well, I guess we're on TikTok."

Trump's Cabinet secretaries started posting this week after the Justice Department issued a memo stating that the app's sale invalidated the 2022 law banning it from government devices. National security concerns have made TikTok a target for bipartisan anger for years.

Donald Trump took a critical stance on the app previously, threatening to ban it with an executive order near the end of his first term. But his tune changed while out of office. He publicly opposed banning the app before Congress did just that in April 2024 with a bill signed by then-President Joe Biden.

Mullin already had nearly 209,000 followers on the platform and was among the 79 senators who voted for the bill. That legislation also included almost $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Gaza. Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security secretary, made his announcement via a video posted on X on Tuesday.

One day after Trump reentered office in January 2025, he directed the Justice Department not to enforce the law. The President extended the deadline for ByteDance's divestiture several times. Just before the final deadline this January, TikTok announced a deal that the US approved. ByteDance still holds a stake, but it is smaller than the 20 percent maximum share stipulated in the 2024 law.

In the wake of the DOJ memo, most executive departments joined TikTok. This includes the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of the Interior. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr also had his own account alongside his department's account, like Mullin did.

Some lawmakers, including Republicans, say the deal was far too favorable to ByteDance's conditions. They note that the app runs on a ByteDance-licensed algorithm. "The Chinese Communist Party cannot be allowed to weaponize an app to divide and weaken our country," Congressman John Moolenaar said in a statement released shortly after the TikTok deal was announced. He leads the House Select Committee on China.

DHS did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment.