My theory is that Trump is just shrewd enough to understand when to take a strategic retreat:

TikTok:

170 million people are on it and nobody expected ByteDance to put up such a fight, I think they figured they’d sell under enough pressure, probably for a pittance so it wasn’t worth such a potentially radicalizing event, especially with so many Americans migrating to Red Note.

Israel:

The truth is Israel pulled out every stop possible and went full holocaust-mode on Palestine, they burned every bridge and severely harmed the soft power of the US and left that of Israel’s in ashes. These past couple of days looks like Israeli propaganda has been going crazy with tonnes of posts on social media with their usual stuff, showing off gay night clubs in Tel-Aviv and pressuring attractive Ashkenazi Israeli girls in full makeup to do stuff in military uniform and despite heavy censorship on these platforms, almost every post is people shitting on them.

Israel used every ounce of strength and still couldn’t make Hamas any less effective than day zero of the hot war.

Trump wanted them to win but the fact is that they failed, there’s no other way about it. He just had the decency to tell them it’s time to fucking throw in the towel, lick your wounds and figure out a different way to do this.