Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
NEW YORK, June 19 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order allowing TikTok to continue operating in the country for another 90 days until Sept. 17, 2025, giving his administration more time to discuss a possible sale of the app.
This is the third time the White House has extended the TikTok ban. He previously signed similar orders on January 20 and April 4, 2025.
Since joining the 2024 presidential race, Trump has amassed more than 15 million followers on TikTok, which is popular with American youth. In January, the politician said he had “warm feelings” for the app.
As local media note, a ban on TikTok in the US is becoming less and less likely in the foreseeable future: the president’s decrees to extend the app’s operation have never been challenged in court.
During his first term, Trump signed an executive order that effectively sought to ban TikTok in the United States unless its owner, Chinese company ByteDance, sold its business in the country to an American counterparty. The order was challenged in court and never went into effect.
In April 2024, then-US President Joseph Biden signed a law giving ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok. The rationale was national security. Failure to comply would require app store operators like Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their platforms by January 19, 2025.
According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, about a third of Americans support a TikTok ban, about a third oppose it, and the same number were undecided. In March 2023, half of respondents supported a ban on the app.
TikTok currently has an audience of about 170 million users in the US. –0–