With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take impact in lower than a month, President-elect Donald Trump stated Sunday that he’d wish to hold the app round, in accordance with Reuters.
“We’re going to have to start out pondering as a result of, you realize, we did go on TikTok, and we had a terrific response with billions of views, billions and billions of views,” Trump advised supporters at an occasion in Phoenix, Arizona. “They introduced me a chart, and it was a file, and it was so stunning to see, and as I checked out it, I stated, ‘Maybe we gotta hold this sucker round for a short time.’”
Trump reportedly met with TikTok’s CEO on Monday and stated afterward that he has a “heat spot” in his coronary heart for the app.
President Joe Biden signed a invoice in April that requires TikTok’s dad or mum firm ByteDance to promote the short-form video app by January 19 of subsequent yr (someday earlier than Trump takes workplace) or else see it banned.
ByteDance is combating the invoice in court docket, and the Supreme Court has agreed hear arguments on January 10.
