President-elect Donald Trump has called the supreme court delaying legislation that could ban TikTok until after his inauguration. In an amicus curiae brief, Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, wrote that the future president wants the opportunity to find a solution to the problem “through political means.”
The law requiring the ban or sale of TikTok will go into effect on January 19, 2025, just one day before Trump's inauguration. The brief calls the ban date “unfortunately timely” and argues that the incoming president should have more time to work on a deal with TikTok. TikTok's legal team cited a similar concern in its requests to delay the ban. The brief also cites Trump's experience in “making deals” and his social media platform Truth Social.
“Only President Trump possesses the consummate deal-making experience, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution that saves the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the administration, concerns that the president himself Trump has acknowledged,” Sauer writes.
Trump's stance on TikTok is very different from the one he took in his first term, when he sought to ban the app in 2020. He also floated the idea that Microsoft could “come to an agreement, an appropriate agreement, so that the Treasury can The United States gets a lot of money” without explaining exactly how such an agreement would work.
President Trump changed his mind on banning TikTok during his second campaign. He told CNBC Squawk Box in March that banning TikTok “would make facebook bigger and I consider facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the ban on January 10.
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