Donald Trump has expressed his desire to temporarily keep TikTok in the US, despite a planned ban in a month. The decision came after a meeting with the company's CEO and impressive viewing figures.
A month before the planned ban on TikTok in the US, President-elect Donald Trump expressed his desire to keep the popular app around for a while.
This is reported by Reuters.
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We 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
– Trump said during a rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
Trump said he was shown a graph of TikTok's record-breaking numbers and was very impressed. He then suggested that the app might be worth keeping around for a while.
On Monday, Trump met with TikTok's CEO and said he had “warm feelings” for the app.