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.

Within 24 hours of its debut, the first video posted to the new White House TikTok account has racked up more than 1.3 million views.

In a comment to HuffPost, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, didn’t answer how this new TikTok account would work with the looming ban, but noted TikTok was helpful in getting Trump e...