Shortly after Monday’s inauguration ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an executive order extending the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations, preventing the app from going dark for an additional 75 days.
The executive order instructs the US Attorney General to abstain from enforcing the law that would ban the app and require companies like Apple and Google to remove it from their app stores. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Days before the January 19 deadline, Trump suggested that he would “save” the app once he formally took office. In an interview with Kristen Welker at NBC News on Saturday, Trump said that he would give ByteDance more time to find a buyer, but did not explain how he planned to do so. “We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” he said.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump confirmed…
