On Monday, just hours after he was sworn into office, President Donald Trump signed a stack of executive orders.
One of them delayed enforcement of a ban on TikTok in the U.S.
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President signed an executive order to delay the ban on TikTok for 75 days.
In hopes of giving the app's Chinese owner enough time to sell off its US assets.
Wasn't it President Trump who back in 2020 was the person who sort of kicked off this whole effort to ban TikTok in the first place?
Yes, the very same President Trump.
Our colleague Georgia Wells reports on TikTok.
This has been utter whiplash that Trump in his first term.
The president who tried to ban or take away TikTok in this country is now the person who's spearheading an attempt to bring it back.
So much so that in the push alert to users, TikTok thanks President Trump for his work on this.
So TikTok is still functioning.
It's thanking President Trump.
But is the story really over?
Is it really actually saved now?
So this is a company that has been facing the prospect of a ban for years and seems to have potentially shifted the tide on this ban attempt, but it's not done.
We are very much still in a wait and see.
TikTok still has this law hanging over its head.
It has a brief reprieve, but this is not done for TikTok.
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