Trump delays TikTok ban with promised executive order

With 75 additional days given, president proposes U.S. joint venture

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting Chinese-owned social media site TikTok a 75-day reprieve after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning the app in the U.S. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and AP)

PAK YIU

January 21, 2025 11:25 JST

WASHINGTON -- Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday granting TikTok an additional 75 days before a law that would ban the video-sharing platform takes effect.

TikTok had been briefly inaccessible in the U.S. over the weekend and was removed from app stores for more than 12 hours, beginning Saturday night. The shutdown was the result of a bipartisan law that required the platform's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S assets or face a ban by Sunday.