TikTok Ban Deadline Looms: Trump Extension and Last-Minute Hesitation

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TikTok Ban Deadline Looms: Trump Extension and Last-Minute Hesitation
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As the TikTok ban in the United States approaches, reports suggest Trump might extend the deadline, while current White House officials express reluctance to implement it before the transition. The decision highlights the complex political and logistical challenges surrounding the ban, with potential implications for users, app marketplaces, and national security concerns.

Reports of Trump extending the deadline, as well as the Supreme Court choosing to uphold its ruling, have been bandied about.We are now less than 48 hours from a TikTok ban being implemented in the United States., as the case put forward by ByteDance’s lawyers last week Friday is believed to have done little to convince the US Supreme Court judges that the popular social media app did not pose a national security threat over its alleged ties to the Chinese government.

This as a solution to ByteDance’s divestment in TikTok would be seen as another win for Trump’s second term, as it is something that the Biden-Harris administration could not muster. As such, it rings quite similar to when Trump visited North Korea in his first term, which was also something that his predecessors were not capable of.highlights a real reluctance to implement the ban from current White House officials too.

“Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement,” they added. That said, if either of the above reports come to fruition, the extension of the deadline appears the more likely, especially given Trump’s ego, as well as the value owning the TikTok US operations would hold for a company in that region. Names like Elon Musk have been attached to a deal to purchase TikTok US, and with his ties to Trump, it only adds fuel to rumours that such a deal could materialise.

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