Trump Delays TikTok Ban with 75-Day Extension After Oval Office Announcement.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a U.S. law that requires the app to either sell its U.S. operations or face a ban.Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump remarked on the overwhelming interest in TikTok, saying, "Every rich person has called me about TikTok." He explained his change of stance since the platform’s initial ban attempt in 2020, humorously noting, "Because I got to use it."TikTok’s U.S. operations had briefly gone offline on Saturday evening after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning the Chinese-owned app on national security grounds. However, Trump’s executive order allowed services to resume for the platform’s 170 million American users.During his inauguration earlier this week, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew joined other prominent tech leaders, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. […]
