The U.S. ban on TikTok is expected to take effect within a month, and President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he wants the app to remain, according to Reuters.
“We have to start thinking, because we actually went on TikTok and had billions of views and a great response,” Trump told supporters at an event in Phoenix, Arizona. ” he said. “They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was such a beautiful thing to look at, and I looked at it and said, 'Maybe we should put this awful thing down for a while. You may need to keep it.”
President Trump reportedly met with TikTok's CEO on Monday and said afterwards that he has a “warm spot” in his heart for the app.
President Joe Biden signed a bill in April that requires TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell the short-form video app by January 19 of next year, one day before Trump's inauguration, or it will be banned. did.
ByteDance is challenging the bill in court, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on January 10th.