Trump says that he would extend the deadline of Tiktok if no agreement is reached by June 19: “ I have a little hot place in my heart for Tiktok '' '

• Trump said Tiktok would be “protected” And it would continue to extend the deadline to prevent the prohibition of the application. Trump said Nbc “I have a small soft place in my heart” for the application. There are legal questions as to whether Trump has the power to continue to extend the ban.

Tiktok, in the current state, will be prohibited on June 19, but President Donald Trump says that he does not intend to enforce the prohibition and will continue to extend the deadline as long as it will take for an agreement to meet.

“Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I have a little warm place in my heart for Tiktok,” said Trump on Sunday in a pre-tapped interview with Meet the press Kristen Welker host. “I have an ideal little place in my heart because I won young people by 36 points … and I focused on Tiktok.”

Trump has already granted two repairs to the prohibition of Tiktok which is applied. This ban should initially take place in January. Now said Trump, the application “will be protected”.

Trump hopes to supervise an agreement that would turn social media operations to a company based in the United States, instead of China's Byedance. China, however, said that it would not approve of any offer, more recently due to prices placed on this country, but the government was resistant to good before they were at stake.

Application criticisms say Tiktok opens American users to China surveillance and is concerned about the impact of the mental health of the application on children. Bytedance and Trump have minimized the risk of application, which is used by 170 million Americans.

Tiktok's language of the prohibition gave Trump the power to extend the deadline for 90 days if there has been “significant progress towards a sale”. There is no language on additional extensions.

Trump technically does not have the power to stop the ban. To do this, it would take an act of congress. The ban was adopted with large bipartisan support in April 2024.

This story was initially presented on Fortune.com