Trump says he wants to keep TikTok ‘for a little while’

With a TikTok ban in the United States expected to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he would like to keep the app. According to Reuters.

“We’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we used TikTok, and we had an amazing response with billions of views, billions and billions of views,” Trump told supporters at an event in Phoenix, Arizona. “They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was so beautiful to see, and when I looked at it, I said, ‘Maybe we should keep this fool for a while.’”

Trump He reportedly met with the CEO of TikTok on Monday and said afterward that he had a “warm spot” in his heart for the app.

President Joe Biden She signed the bill in April This requires TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the short-video app by January 19 next year (one day before Trump takes office) or be banned.

ByteDance is fighting the bill in court, and The Supreme Court agreed to hear the arguments On January 10th.