Trump Is Delaying the US TikTok Ban Again. What’s Next?
One of the first actions President Donald Trump took at the outset of his second presidency was granting a stay of execution for TikTok. Two and a half months later, he granted a second, and on June 18, he promised a third.
Under a law passed by Congress in 2024, the popular video app was facing a nationwide ban starting Jan. 19 after its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd., failed to divest the app’s US operations to ease national security concerns. But a day later, Trump intervened, signing an executive order designed to delay enforcement of that law and give ByteDance more time to find a buyer. On April 4, a day before the ban was to take effect again, he signed a second executive order extending the deadline an additional 75 days, and on June 18, he announced plans to extend it a third time, for another 90 days.