The White House launched its official TikTok account despite the looming deadline for the Chinese-owned app to be sold or banned in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million U.S. users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump was emphatic on the campaign trail in 2016: If he made it into office, he would “drain the swamp” with an expansive ethics package cracking down on lobbying. Most of those proposals quickly went by the wayside. On the campaign trail again almost a year ago, Trump decried Washington’s revolving door as a “big problem.”

President Donald Trump made a surprise return to the popular video app TikTok with three montages posted to a new official @whitehouse account Tuesday night.

The move continues a remarkable turnabout toward the app for President Trump, who tried to ban TikTok in his first term.

"White Stripes" singer Jack White slammed Trump's new Oval Office décor as "vulgar" and "gaudy" following Ukraine meeting, prompting sharp rebuke from White House officials.

The White House launched an account on popular video app TikTok despite the U.S.’s rocky history with the Chinese-owned company. Trump once called it a national security threat.

Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has directed several major renovations at the White House. Trump redesigned the previously minimalist Oval Office, making some of the most significant changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold medallions, gold vermeil figurines, gold eagles, and gilded Rococo mirrors.

Laura Loomer’s honeymoon phase as a fixture of President Donald Trump’s inner circle appears to be waning. The far-right conspiracy theorist has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in Trump’s orbit in the first months of his second term,

The White House has canceled tours for September, and it’s unclear when the long-standing tradition will resume.

The musician described the Oval Office as a "vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler's dressing room."

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is telling critics to stick it.