The lead up to President Trump’s second Inauguration was fascinating and a little odd. I won’t get deep into politics here, but I do want to laugh at the absurdity of TikTok’s ban and unbanning. How does no one see the performative nonsense the whole thing is? Back in 2020, Trump himself led efforts to ban TikTok. Now, in 2025, Trump is the savior—or at least gets praise for ‘saving’ TikTok. It comes with stipulations, of course, the delay in the ban of TikTok is to seek a buyer willing to have a joint venture with the US government having 50% ownership. Whether Bytedance will agree to such a move is yet to be seen. Whether there is a company (my guess would be Meta or X) has yet to be seen (at the time of writing this, and I’m not updating this ever… Sorry future folks).
With all that said, the most amusing aspect to all of this is how TikTok went dark on a Saturday evening in the US… Then, as Sunday rolled on, as if God himself stepped in, TikTok would be ready for the Inauguration and rumors swelled Trump would sign an executive order to delay the banning of TikTok not long after he’s sworn in. Which he did. Cool, right?
I can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.
People are eating it up. And it made me realize just how easy it is to come off a hero when society has a short memory span. The best way I can put it, sorry for stealing this from the folk on the Kindafunny Podcast. The whole thing is like an episode of The Boys. Homelander and company fake a crisis to seem like the heroes when they ‘save the day’. It doesn’t matter what happened before, it only matters what happens after. The unfortunate truth we live in. A truth that seems that people are happy to ignore or don’t see. I’m sure, at some point, we’ll all wake up and realize how absurd everything is.
Maybe.
Until then, I’m going to keep rolling on. I still have my dreams to pursue—hopefully, the world doesn’t end and cut those dreams short!
Onward to adventure!
Jesús M. Rivera 