Trump's sensational last-minute plan to save TikTok from nationwide ban revealed
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President-elect Donald Trump may issue an executive order that would suspend the TikTok ban scheduled to go into effect on Sunday. The move would prevent US officials from enforcing the law for 60 to 90 days, two anonymous sources familiar with the deliberations told the Washington Post.
Trump's inauguration is this Monday, one day after the nationwide ban is expected to be made official. Sunday is the deadline for the TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, to sell its US assets or be pulled from US app stores due to concerns over the app's links to the communist Chinese government.
Under that ban, Americans would still be able to use the app but new downloads would be blocked and its software would slowly degrade over time due to a lack of updates. This is not the first time Trump has expressed his interest in overturning the ban, which President Joe Biden signed into law last April.
The law requires TikTok's parent company, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, to sell its US assets by January 19, 2025 or face a nationwide ban. The Supreme Court heard TikTok's appeal to the ban last week, but is expected to allow the law to proceed as planned on Sunday.
President-elect Donald Trump may issue an executive order that would suspend the TikTok ban scheduled to go into effect on Sunday. Trump has repeatedly told the more than 14million followers of his own TikTok account that he plans to 'save' the app once he takes office.
