Trump Says He Will Signal an Government Order to Delay TikTok Ban

• President-elect Trump mentioned he’ll signal an govt order on Monday delaying the TikTok ban.
• The vastly well-liked social media app went darkish on Saturday simply earlier than a federal ban took impact.
• Trump as soon as sought to ban TikTok within the US. However over the previous yr, he has embraced the app.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday mentioned he plans to problem an govt order after his inauguration on Monday to delay enforcement of the TikTok ban.

Trump, who’s only a day away from being sworn into workplace for his second time period, made the assertion on his Fact Social platform hours after the vastly well-liked social media app went darkish.

The president-elect mentioned his govt order would “prolong the time period earlier than the legislation’s prohibitions take impact” and added that “there shall be no legal responsibility for any firm that helped hold TikTok from going darkish” previous to the order.

Trump did not specify the size of time he’d give ByteDance, the Chinese language firm that owns TikTok, to discover a non-Chinese language purchaser, however he mentioned he’d like the US to “have a 50% possession place in a three way partnership.”

“With out U.S. approval, there isn’t any TikTok,” the president-elect wrote. “With our approval, it’s price tons of of billions of {dollars} – possibly trillions.”

It wasn’t instantly clear if Trump meant the US authorities or only a US entity.

Trump throughout his first time period unsuccessfully sought to ban TikTok in the US, however has since shied away from that place. In the course of the 2024 presidential marketing campaign, he mentioned younger folks would “go loopy with out it.” Trump himself joined TikTok prematurely of the 2024 race.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a Trump ally, mentioned on X on Sunday that he is lengthy been against a TikTok ban, arguing that it infringed on “freedom of speech.”

“That mentioned, the present state of affairs the place TikTok is allowed to function in America, however X just isn’t allowed to function in China is unbalanced. One thing wants to alter,” Musk wrote.

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