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With a U.S. TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a calendar month , President - elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he ’d like to keep the app around , according to Reuters .
“ We ’re blend in to have to protrude thinking because , you know , we did go on TikTok , and we had a great reply with billions of views , one thousand million and 1000000000 of views , ” Trump recount help at an event in Phoenix , Arizona . “ They brought me a chart , and it was a phonograph recording , and it was so beautiful to see , and as I looked at it , I said , ‘ Maybe we acquire ta keep this sucker around for a piddling while . ’ ”
Trumpreportedly adjoin with TikTok ’s CEOon Monday and said afterward that he has a “ fond spot ” in his heart for the app .
President Joe Bidensigned a bill in Aprilthat requires TikTok ’s parent company ByteDance to betray the little - pattern video app by January 19 of next yr ( one day before Trump takes function ) or else see it banned .
ByteDance is fighting the bill in motor inn , andthe Supreme Court has agree to get word argumentson January 10 .
