TikTok will be banned in the United States on January 19, 2025. The White House can extend the social network's reprieve by 90 days, but does not appear willing to do so. Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, proposes to keep TikTok alive “ a little more ».
After trying to shut down TikTok in 2020, will Donald Trump turn into its savior? According to the latest statement from the president-elect, who went to meet his fans during a meeting in Phoenix on December 22, 2024, the story of the Chinese social network is not yet over in the United States: “Maybe we should keep this thing for a while longer.”declared Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has become a TikTok star: he doesn't want to lose his account
After two years of negotiations, the American Congress and Senate passed a law to ban TikTok in the United States. The social network is accused of maintaining vague links with Chinese power, which means it is obliged to sell itself to an American group. Since ByteDance, its parent company, is not a seller, TikTok is heading straight towards a formal ban. Joe Biden signed the famous law on April 24, 2024, with a deadline of January 19, 2025 for TikTok.
Since then, TikTok has been struggling for survival. The social network is trying to convince the courts to rule in its favor and has appealed to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States. His boss Shou Zi Chew even played the dinner card with Donald Trump, while publishing part of the TikTok algorithm publicly, in order to show credentials.
Will Donald Trump take the bait? During a meeting on December 22, the president-elect sent the first reassuring signs to TikTok, recounting his personal experience with the social network:
“We went on TikTok and had a great response with billions and billions and billions of views”Trump said to the applause of his fans. “They brought me a chart, it was a record, it was so beautiful to see. Looking at it, I said to myself, maybe we should keep this thing for a while longer”adds the president-elect.
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After two years of investigations into the addiction of young people and ByteDance's link with China, TikTok could therefore be saved… by Donald Trump's billions of views.
The president-elect seems to have been seduced by the audience figures presented to him by Shou Zi Chew, who proved to him that he could speak to billions of people with TikTok. As improbable as this may seem, it seems enough to reassure Donald Trump about the company's intentions in the United States. The billionaire could extend the end date of TikTok by 90 days, to prevent it from dying out at the time of its inauguration. It remains to be seen how: Donald Trump will not be president before January 20, the day after the ban on the application. Will he be able to revive her after 1 day of banishment?
