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,
Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for 75 days. The law went into effect on Sunday.
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April.
Measure directs Justice Department to not enforce the law for 75 days while administration determines “the appropriate course forward.”
President Donald Trump notably called for a ban of TikTok during his first term due to national security concerns.
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In addition to granting this power broadly, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act specifically called out TikTok and its parent company ByteDance. It gave ByteDance until January 19, 2025, to divest of TikTok or face a ban.
Trump, 78, said in his first interview since reclaiming power that he was aware of security concerns about the platform, which has an estimated 170 million US users, but thought they were
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Trump puts 75-day hold on law that could ban TikTok in the USPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order to postpone a law that would have banned TikTok from operating in the United States.
At the time that Trump became a TikTok user, Biden was his presidential election opponent, and his campaigned concluded that TikTok was an effective platform in “the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Donald Trump is now being hailed as TikTok's savior after he tried to ban the app during his White House first term.
On Monday evening, Trump took to the Oval Office to sign a stack of executive orders during one of his first acts as president. Among them was a measure to keep TikTok operational for another 75 days, saving it from immediately being banned under a law passed last year prohibiting the app because it is owned by a Chinese company.
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