Donald Trump, the hope for TikTok to continue operating in the US

“There are many ways to hold China accountable besides alienating 180 million American users every month,” Conway, who also worked in the White House during the first Trump administration, told the Washington Post.

“I’m going to save TikTok”

January 19, one day before Trump’s inauguration, is the deadline for ByteDance to sell the company in the United States; However, the company has challenged the ban, considering it unconstitutional, which could postpone the case until the second term of the Trump administration begins.

“I’m going to save TikTok,” the businessman said in a video he uploaded to his profile on the platform in June and according to Alan Rozenshtein, former national security advisor at the Department of Justice, Trump could pressure Congress to repeal the Protection Act. of Americans Against Applications Controlled by Foreign Adversaries or encourage the attorney general to refrain from implementing it.

Trump’s statements are surprising, as they represent a strong change in discourse by the president-elect, who usually attacks China and, in fact, had himself encouraged the sale of TikTok during his first government.

One of the moments when Trump’s rhetoric on the issue changed was in February of this year, when he met with Republican billionaire Jeff Yass, who has a 7% stake in the company, while his company, Susquehanna International Group, has a 15% stake in ByteDance.

Yass, in addition to having this participation in TikTok, is also co-owner of the company that merged with the parent company of Truth Social, Trump’s social network, and that is why the president-elect has changed his mind regarding the video platform .