President Donald Trump recently shared his first TikTok post since the 2024 election. In the post, he reached out to “the young people of TikTok,” reminding them he didn’t enforce his 2020 executive order that could have banned the app. “To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big,” Trump said in his TikTok post. Filmed in the Oval Office, the post continued as Trump said “And now, you’re looking at me in the Oval Office, and someday one of you is going to be sitting right at this desk, and you’re going to be doing a great job also.”
In a major reversal, Trump, who once pushed to ban TikTok, recently signed an executive order allowing an American consortium to buy and restructure the app’s U.S. operations, keeping it from being banned. The deal is reportedly worth about $14 billion, less than what analysts say TikTok’s US operations would fetch in an open auction. Trump calls this move “saving TikTok,” presenting it as a favor to the app’s mostly young users.
TikTok ban in US : Background
Over the past five years, efforts to ban TikTok in the US have gained support from both parties. The idea first came up during Trump’s first presidency in 2020 when he called it a national security threat.
In 2024, the then President Joe Biden passed a law which required TikTok to either sell its US operations or face a ban. After winning the November 2024 elections, Trump signed an executive order on January 20, 2025 delaying the enforcement of the TikTok ban by 75 days, providing time to negotiate a solution. He has then delayed the app ban with multiple deadline extensions.
Recently, Trump announced a deal—still pending—after discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The American branch of TikTok would be controlled by a group of Trump-aligned billionaires, including Larry Ellison , Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell.
In a major reversal, Trump, who once pushed to ban TikTok, recently signed an executive order allowing an American consortium to buy and restructure the app’s U.S. operations, keeping it from being banned. The deal is reportedly worth about $14 billion, less than what analysts say TikTok’s US operations would fetch in an open auction. Trump calls this move “saving TikTok,” presenting it as a favor to the app’s mostly young users.
TikTok ban in US : Background
Over the past five years, efforts to ban TikTok in the US have gained support from both parties. The idea first came up during Trump’s first presidency in 2020 when he called it a national security threat.
In 2024, the then President Joe Biden passed a law which required TikTok to either sell its US operations or face a ban. After winning the November 2024 elections, Trump signed an executive order on January 20, 2025 delaying the enforcement of the TikTok ban by 75 days, providing time to negotiate a solution. He has then delayed the app ban with multiple deadline extensions.
Recently, Trump announced a deal—still pending—after discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The American branch of TikTok would be controlled by a group of Trump-aligned billionaires, including Larry Ellison , Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell.
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