What they're saying : "I don't get the rush to do it in the middle of an election year when we are making tremendous progress with Gen-Z," Trump ally and GOP strategist Alex Bruesewitz told Axios.
* "MAGA content does very well on TikTok. And Meta is suppressing MAGA content on both Facebook and Instagram," Bruesewitz said.
* Donald Trump Jr. last year ripped the idea of a TikTok ban, raising concerns about "government overreach" and support from "the establishment in both parties" and "Big Tech."
* Tucker Carlson also suggested there was a "hidden agenda," saying on his former Fox News show: "It's a creepy low IQ Chinese plot ... but that does not mean that people trying to ban TikTok have your interests in mind."
The intrigue : One potential factor at play is Trump's newly repaired relationship with billionaire Jeff Yass, who has a huge financial stake in Bytedance and has spent millions backing lawmakers who support TikTok.
* Days before his TikTok reversal, Trump publicly praised Yass for inviting him to a retreat held by Club for Growth, a powerful conservative group that also opposes banning the app.
* Yass had previously donated $4.9 million to Vivek Ramaswamy, who last year became the only Republican presidential candidate to join TikTok — an app he once called "digital fentanyl."