After President Trump threatened to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, Sarah Cooper took to the app to impersonate him yet again and explain'how to tick tack.'
whose primary user base is Generation Z,
is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Earlier this month, the president told Greta Van Susteren that he was considering blocking the app from operating in the U.S. as a form of retaliation against China because of “what they’ve done to this country and to the entire world” in regards to the coronavirus.that exposes users’ data, though no proof has been offered showing such supposed breaches have been used against the U.S.
Cooper, meanwhile, has become one of the app’s biggest draws. The 42-year-old saw her videos go viral this spring in the midst of the pandemic.“People are having a good laugh when it’s really hard to laugh,” she told The Times in June."Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it. There were so many moments I was able to use. I put the video out within a few hours of him saying those words.
Cooper said she views her TikTok videos as a way to force viewers to reckon with — or fact-check — some of the president’s most outlandish statements. “It seems like we’ve been gaslighted for 3½ years,” she said. “Now he’s saying ridiculous things that make no sense, but people are nodding and no one is calling him out. That frustration is part of the reason why I wanted to do something like this.”Get Carolina A. Miranda's weekly newsletter for what's happening, plus openings, critics' picks and more.
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