“Given how new and difficult this case is, the court should consider an extension to allow more time to resolve these issues” and to give Trump “an opportunity to reach a political resolution” after his new presidency begins on Jan. 20, Trump’s legal team said in a letter. to the Supreme Court.
Trump was staunchly against TikTok during his first presidency and unsuccessfully tried to ban the platform on national security grounds.
At the time, he also expressed concern that the Chinese government could access TikTok’s US user data or manipulate the platform. He called for TikTok to be sold to a US company.
Trump’s successor as president, Joe Biden, went even further by signing a law requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok by January 19. Failure to do so would result in the platform being pulled from app stores in the US.
Trump has now changed his mind.
“Now that I think about it, I’m all for TikTok because there needs to be competition,” Trump recently told Bloomberg.
“If there’s no TikTok, there’s Facebook and Instagram – and you know there is [Marks] Zuckerberg.”