The fight for TikTok may not be over just yet. While speaking with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day grace period to avoid getting banned in the U.
Once he takes office on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump plans to give TikTok a 90-day 'reprieve' from a ban, he told NBC News on Saturday.
For now, TikTok’s ability to operate stateside hangs in the balance after the Supreme Court upheld the law demanding that TikTok divest from its Chinese owner or face a ban. On its face, what the Supreme Court upholds is misleading.
It is unclear if Mr. Trump, who has previously said he will spare the social media platform, will or can stop the ban.
With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said on Friday he wants to thank U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his commitment to work with the company and find a solution that keeps the app available in the United States.
President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.
The Supreme Court’s ruling represents the end of TikTok’s legal fight for survival. Its faint hopes now rest on a political solution. Donald Trump, who is due to become president on January 20th, the day after TikTok’s banishment,
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held their first phone talks in four years Friday. According to Trump, he spoke with Xi about TikTok, just hours before the Supreme upheld a law set to ban the social media platform in the United States in less than 48 hours.
Donald Trump will "most likely" extend the looming TikTok ban by 90 days, the President-elect told "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker via phone interview Saturday. "I think that would be, certainly,
TikTok is supposed to find new, non-Chinese owners by tomorrow and the US Supreme Court upheld the ban on Friday. But will the darkness descend? Because the outgoing Biden Administration says it won’t enforce the ban. Donald Trump, President again from Monday, says he needs more time to decide what to do.