Donald Trump is now being hailed as TikTok's savior after he tried to ban the app during his White House first term.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about sharing his thoughts since taking office, and he added a 20-minute Q&A with reporters aboard Air Force One to the mix. He held forth on everything from the color of the presidential plane to the fate of TikTok, Greenland and Canada.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to temporarily halt a law requiring TikTok to sell U.S. assets or be banned in the U.S.
D: Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office to sign a series of pardons and executive orders, including his promise to delay implementation of a law restricting TikTok. The order delays implementation of a law for 75 days,
President Donald Trump has indicated that he might not save TikTok after all, after calling the social media site "worthless" on his first day back in the White House. Trump had previously pledged to rescue TikTok from the nationwide ban enforced by the Supreme Court,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to further delay the TikTok ban in the U.S. In a statement shared hours after he was sworn in on Monday, Jan. 20, Trump announced he was giving TikTok 75 more days before a law banning the social media platform in the U.S. would take effect.
Tok is restoring service to users of the app on Sunday after it said incoming president Donald Trump provided "necessary clarity" that it would not face penalties.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be supportive of the world's richest man and his close aide, Elon Musk, buying TikTok "if he wanted to". Trump was asked if he would be open to the billionaire founder of Tesla buying the short-video platform facing a nationwide ban in the US after the Supreme Court last week upheld a law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.
"This app has been with me since I was 14; I'm 21 now; it's helped me laugh when I was at my lowest, given me the motivation to end a toxic relationship, and reminded me I wasn't alone."
The ongoing feud between the U.S. government and TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, began in 2020, when President Donald Trump proposed the first ban on TikTok in the U.S., claiming it threatened national security.
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