Former President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled his opposition to a A ban on TikTok is being considered in Congressclaiming that it would help Facebook, which he called “the real enemy of the people!”

“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump, 77, claims a post on Truth Socialapparently referring to Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“I don’t want Facebook, which cheated in the last election, to do better. They are true enemies of the people!” he added.

In January, Zuckerberg banned Trump from Facebook and Instagram. 7. 2021, the day after supporters of the former president stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Trump agitated by the decision of the executive director of Meta, releasing a statement a few months later, saying, “The next time I’m in the White House, at his request, there will be no more dinners with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all work!”

Meta brought Trump back last year.

By a 50-0 vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced legislation Thursday to crack down on TikTok.

The draft law, which was presented earlier this week by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), would give the Chinese parent company of the popular video-sharing app ByteDance 165 days to sell TikTok or face a ban from app stores run by Apple, Google and others.

The bill has the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and President Biden has said he will sign it if it reaches his desk.

In December 2022, Biden signed the TikTok Ban on Government Devices Act, which banned the app from federal government devices and systems, amid concerns that ByteDance could allow the Chinese Communist Party access to user data.

ByteDance denies sharing user data with CCP, calling concern “disinformation.”

“This bill has a predetermined outcome: a total ban on TikTok in the United States,” the company said after Thursday’s vote. “The government is trying to strip 170 million Americans of their constitutional right to free speech.”

Trump previously supported a ban on TikTok in the US, so in August 2020 he signed an executive order that gave ByteDance 45 days to sell the social media platform.

Trump’s order was blocked in court and Biden reversed the ban after taking office, instead ordering the Commerce Department to determine whether TikTok poses a national security threat.

The Post reported Thursday that the hedge fund manager is billionaire Republican megadonor Jeff Yass personally calls Republican members A lawmaker to try to stop the law calling for a ban on the app.

Yass’s fund has a $33 billion stake in Bytedance.

Yass’s spokesman denied that he had called Republican regulators.