President Trump Allows TikTok to Stay For 75 More Days

For 15 hours during this past weekend, millions of Americans who had an account on TikTok had many moments of anxiety as the app temporarily closed. When the app reopened on January 19th, the day before the inauguration of President Trump, the TikTok account users in this country breathed a collective sigh of relief. As for the future of TikTok in the United States, President Trump just signed an executive order that allows TikTok to stay for 75 more days to address national security concerns.

The 75-day stay that President Trump signed the executive order for gives the popular social media app another breathe of existence in the United States after the initial ban that the President Biden signed off on before he left office. In regard to anyone who want to reinstall TikTok on their phones, Digital Music News reported that Apple and Google are still blocking the app from their respective app stores. The blocking of the app on the Apple and Google app stores prevents TikTok users who initially uninstalled/deleted the app or prospective users who want to download the app for the first, to install the app back on their phones. One related subject to TikTok staying for 75 more days, President Trump also mentioned the idea of a joint venture that may own TikTok.

“If I do the deal for the United States, then I think we should get half. In other words wait, I think the U.S. should be entitled to get half of TikTok. And congratulations, TikTok has a good partner, and that would be worth you know, could be worth $500 billion or something.”