Trump says he will 'most likely' give TikTok 90-day extension to avoid ban
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban.
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.
“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. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” Trump said in the phone interview.
President-elect Donald Trump at the US Capitol on Jan. 8, 2025.Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images“If I decide to do that, I’ll probably announce it on Monday,” he said.
A 90-day extension under specific conditions is explicitly allowed for in the bipartisan law passed last year. But an extension Monday may not be enough to avoid the app going dark for at least a day, because the current deadline for compliance is Sunday.
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