'They showed me billions': Donald Trump no longer in a hurry to ban TikTok

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On paper, everything is very clear. Under a law passed last April, ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, is required to sell the American branch of the application by January 19 (one day before Donald Trump takes office), under penalty of a total ban of the service across the Atlantic. But the future White House resident has become a supporter of this Chinese social network, and he wants to keep it active. Explanations.

” Billions and billions of views “

Present this weekend at AmericaFest, an annual conservative gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, Donald Trump discussed the fate of TikTok. As usual, he began by discussing his personal case before drawing conclusions for America: “I think we're going to have to start thinking because, you know, we went on TikTok, and we got a great response, billions of views, billions and billions of views.”

He adds:

They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was so beautiful to see, and looking at it, I was like, “Maybe we should keep this thing around for a little bit moment.

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Donald Trump has just met the CEO of TikTok and he indicated in the process that he had ” a weakness “ for this platform, again because of the good numbers obtained by his account during the electoral campaign.

TikTok Quickly Knows Its Fate

Even though the president-elect does not seem to intend to ban TikTok, the near future remains fraught with pitfalls for the Chinese social network. Its owners are trying to have the application of this law annulled and are challenging it before the Supreme Court, which should render its decision by January 19. If its opinion is unfavorable to ByteDance and the latter does not cede its activity in the United States, the service will have to be banned on American territory within a few weeks.

A new law would then have to be passed to reverse this decision (which seems very complicated because Democrats and Republicans share an aversion to TikTok), unless Donald Trump manages to issue a temporary suspension of the application of the text (itself provided for in the law). In any case, this is a first hot issue for the president-elect. TikTok supports many content creators in the United States, and this Chinese service is regularly accused of being a threat to national security.

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