US president-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a US law that threatens to shut down the popular platform as soon as Sunday.
Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that he’ll “probably announce it on Monday” – the day of his inauguration to a second term.
TikTok said on Friday that it would “go dark” in the US on Sunday unless the Biden administration issues a clear statement to service providers about what course it should take.
That followed a unanimous US Supreme Court ruling that upheld a bipartisan law requiring TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance to sell the video-sharing app or be shut down for national security concerns.
“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,” Trump said, according to NBC.
“We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.”
