President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Sunday (Dec 22) that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while, saying he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign.
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00:00President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while,
00:09saying he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign.
00:15It was amazing. So we got the highest vote ever for a Republican candidate.
00:21We won by 36 points with young people. That never happens.
00:25A Republican loses by 36 or 40. So I'm going to have to start thinking about TikTok.
00:31I think we're going to have to start thinking.
00:38Because, you know, we we did go on TikTok and we had a great response with billions of views, billions and billions of views.
00:47They brought me a they brought me a chart and it was a record.
00:51And it was so beautiful to see. And as I looked at it, I said, maybe we got to keep this sucker around a little while.
01:00Trump's comments before a crowd of conservative supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, were one of the strongest signals yet that he opposes a potential exit of TikTok from the U.S. market.
01:11The U.S. Senate passed a law in April requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the app, citing national security concerns.
01:21TikTok's owners have sought to have the law struck down, and the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
01:28But if the court does not rule in ByteDance's favor and no divestment occurs, the app could be effectively banned in the United States on January 19th, one day before Trump takes office.
01:39It is unclear how Trump would go about undoing the TikTok divestiture order, which passed overwhelmingly in the Senate.