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It’s horribly obvious political theater.
Ban and force an even greater right-wing favorability and paint the GOP as the big heroes who saved the treats.
Most American politics is just theater(at the electoral level). Trump not really having any hard alliances, working with Meta, and seeing that the ban wasn't super popular it was probably easy to unban hoping he can get them to sell, but even if they don't he still comes out on top. All the millionaire geriatrics in the house, congress, Biden, and supreme court just thought "China bad" would be good enough to either kick them out or get them to sell. Most of the time that would work, but younger people are not on the same program (yet).
I don't really think it is some GOP conspiracy or long con by Trump, all this just seems like taking very obvious opportunities and capital just moving along.