Trump says he 'most likely' will give TikTok 90-day extension to avoid US ban
TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a US ban. Trump said in an NBC News interview that he had not decided what to do but was considering granting TikTok a reprieve after he is sworn into office on Monday. A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to US users takes effect on Sunday.
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Under the law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden last year, TikTok's China-based parent company had nine months to sell the platform's US operation to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to grant an extension if a sale is in progress.
«I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it's appropriate. You know, it's appropriate,» Trump told «Meet the Press» moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview. «We have to look at it carefully. It's a very big situation.
«If I decide to do that, I'll probably announce it on Monday,» he said.
Both White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco made clear on Friday that the Biden administration would leave the law's implementation to Trump given that his inauguration falls the day after the
