Trump says he will 'most likely' give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: NBC News

EXCLUSIVE
DONALD TRUMP

Trump says he will 'most likely' give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban

Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.


——— Trump said he will "probably" announce his decision on TikTok on Monday, his first day in office.Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jan. 18, 2025, 12:28 PM EST
By David Ingram and Alexandra Marquez

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the U.S. after he takes office Monday.

Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-likely-give-tiktok-90-day-extension-avoid-ban-rcna188258

[sop]

1. How much did that cost TikTok?

[underpants]

5. Trump already did a complete 180 on this.

$$$$

[GreenWave]

2. Egg farmers will be paying us to eat their eggs by then! Right, Magas?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Does he have that power?

Ain't the law, the law?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Not that I know of (to answer your first question). NT

[littlemissmartypants]

12. There's a legal provision that allows for a 90 day reprieve.

But that's it. There would have to be a new law passed or a purchaser found in that time.
So...

It's not clear if TikTok has met the high legal bar to win a 90-day reprieve from Trump -- which requires having binding agreements in place to enable ByteDance to complete a sale of TikTok by mid-April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-faces-us-ban-deadline-users-brace-fallout-2025-01-18/

The ruling:
https://archive.ph/Lwltl

[reACTIONary]

7. I think he would have "discretion" over enforcement of the law...

... which, If I understand correctly, would entail not going after apple and google if they do not remove it from their app stores. There isn't really a direct ban on tt. It is a ban on distribution of the app.

The executive branch is allowed discretion as to which laws are enforced most vigorously.

[Igel]

8. One pundit said that the law contained a mechanism for that.

Not that I see.

Actually, one pundit was avidly saying that perhaps he should just ignore the law because we're a democracy and the president, being democratically elected, represents the people. (Well, d'uh, you'd think Congress might do the same. And apparently that idjit would say we'd be wrong.)

Another was sarcastic about that possibility and called it "executive nullification"--Congress makes suggestions that the president signs to indicate he'll take it under advisement, apparently.

Sometimes it's not just worth chewing through the restraints in the morning.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. He never said he'd do that.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Where does it say in there anything about upholding the law?

I have to do this: /s

[littlemissmartypants]

14. It's in the Supreme Court ruling.

There's a legal provision that allows for a 90 day reprieve.

But that's it. There would have to be a new law passed or a purchaser found in that time.
So...

It's not clear if TikTok has met the high legal bar to win a 90-day reprieve from Trump -- which requires having binding agreements in place to enable ByteDance to complete a sale of TikTok by mid-April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-faces-us-ban-deadline-users-brace-fallout-2025-01-18/

The ruling:
https://archive.ph/Lwltl

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Yes. There's a legal provision that allows for a 90 day reprieve.

But that's it. There would have to be a new law passed or a purchaser found in that time.
So...

It's not clear if TikTok has met the high legal bar to win a 90-day reprieve from Trump -- which requires having binding agreements in place to enable ByteDance to complete a sale of TikTok by mid-April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-faces-us-ban-deadline-users-brace-fallout-2025-01-18/

The ruling:
https://archive.ph/Lwltl

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Yes.

There's a legal provision that allows for a 90 day reprieve.

But that's it. There would have to be a new law passed or a purchaser found in that time.
So...

It's not clear if TikTok has met the high legal bar to win a 90-day reprieve from Trump -- which requires having binding agreements in place to enable ByteDance to complete a sale of TikTok by mid-April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-faces-us-ban-deadline-users-brace-fallout-2025-01-18/

The ruling:
https://archive.ph/Lwltl

[louis-t]

6. That will give Elon a chance to put together his offer.

But first they have to figure a way to de-value the company. He's been sorta busy lately, with Space-X rockets blowing up, and all.

[HipChick]

10. Exactly where this is headed....

[LeftInTX]

15. Another one of Trump's cronies is planning on buying it.

Real estate mogul Frank McCourt, who is trying to buy TikTok's U.S. arm, reiterated his investor group's ability to make a deal and still comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday.

Why it matters: Billionaire McCourt says he has the money and the technology to keep TikTok running on American phones.

Zoom in: McCourt appeared on CNBC on Friday after the Supreme Court upheld a U.S. law that requires ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, to either sell the app or shutter it inside the U.S. The ban would go into effect on Jan. 19.

McCourt pointed out that if the U.S. version is sold, the law says it needs to be disentangled from the Chinese technology that runs it.
"We, I believe, are the only bidder that meet that criteria," he told CNBC.
ByteDance has previously indicated that TikTok is not for sale.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/mccourt-tiktok-bid-supreme-court

[IzzaNuDay]

16. The dotard continues to manipulate media

this past weekend, TikTok. What’s next?
anything to make it all about himself. F him.