Posted on 01/15/2025 3:08:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok ban-or-sale law for 60 to 90 days, hoping a brief reprieve for the Chinese-owned app will net him an early victory.
Trump has been mulling ways to save the day for the wildly popular video app, talking through unconventional dealmaking and legal maneuvers; these include the executive order that could unravel the Biden administration’s nationwide ban of the app now scheduled for Sunday, according to two people familiar with the deliberations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.
Trump has expressed a keen interest in being seen as rescuing a platform on which he’s been told he’s widely admired, leading political aides and business allies to scramble for options that would allow him to deliver on his campaign promise to “save TikTok,” as he has said repeatedly on his more than 14 million-follower TikTok account.
“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” Trump said last month.
The main question is how. A law signed by President Joe Biden last year calls for the app’s owner, the Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance, to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face an immediate ban. The Supreme Court, which considered TikTok’s challenge of the law last week, is expected to allow the law to proceed as planned.
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Can you really sign an executive order to circumvent a law passed by Congress?
Trump’s enemies laid a big minefield to tie his hands and potentially lead us into World War III IMHO.
Trump will have to confront China on his own terms not those of the “Deep State” Neocons Military Industrial Complex.
Trump’s enemies making things rough on multiple fronts.
Biden’s new sanctions on Russian energy last Friday put oil up ten percent people are seeing that as the gas pumps.
Unfortunately.
Why .
Its a CCP run spy machine .
What the heck is going on .
We just got rid of the CCP Pres Jill .
Why protect this Chicom spy operation .
We are all "spies" now, just like we are all collaborate with Russia Russia Russia.
safe and effective...
So you admit its a CCP spy app.
So Chicom spying is fine with you.
The GOP was idiotic to go along with this law. If they can get rid of TikTok they can get rid of X, or truth, social, or any damn thing they want. You don’t allow precedents like this.
I didn’t admit anything, Einstein.
I merely pointed out that they don’t care about CCP spies.
They care about putting us in gulags by saying we are spies using Potemkin laws.
> Its a CCP run spy machine . <
Yep. Everything else about TikTok is secondary. I’m a bit confused as to why Trump is so eager to protect it. Maybe he’s playing some kind of 4-D chess here that I just can’t see.
Money talks with trump .
Its a donor demand.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/
What changed his mind?
TikTok helped Trump to win in 2024.
@teamtrump
Yes, Congress can pass a law overriding his order. He can veto that, and they can use a 2/3 vote to override THAT.
But yes, he can do it.
> TikTok helped Trump to win in 2024. <
There is evidently truth in that. But there are three existential threats to the United States: China, Islam, and illegal immigration.
TikTok is connected to the first threat. It’s got to go.
Best if Trump does nothing here. Just let the d*mn thing get banned.
There were THOUSANDS of black folks on TicTock who were really, really, funny spreading the word favoring Trump, I watched so many of these TicTock posts on Telegram uninformed voters were becoming VERY INFORMED in very short funny sound bites!! I am completely against banning TicTock many, many, have created businesses there also!!!
Now you see why the Deep State wants TikTok to be gone.
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