{"id":18004,"date":"2025-05-04T20:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/trump-may-delay-tiktok-ban-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:21:34","slug":"trump-may-delay-tiktok-ban-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/trump-may-delay-tiktok-ban-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump may delay TikTok ban again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>TikTok Ban: Trump&#8217;s Stance<\/h2>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to further delay a ban on TikTok, having already postponed it twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a report by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/04\/trump-tiktok-ban-extension-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>, in a recent interview on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Trump indicated that if a deal to sell TikTok&#8217;s US operations to American owners is not finalized before the current June 19 deadline, he would consider granting the company another extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump revealed his affinity for the platform, stating, &#8220;Perhaps I shouldn\u2019t say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The backstory to this development began when Congress passed a law last year, requiring TikTok&#8217;s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the short-form video app to avoid a ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/19\/tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok temporarily went offline in the US in January<\/a> after the ban took effect. However, Trump intervened, declaring a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/19\/trump-says-he-will-delay-tiktok-ban-suggests-a-joint-venture-with-us-ownership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">90-day delay of the ban<\/a> and proposed exploring a joint venture with US ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the subsequent deadline approached in April, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/04\/trump-extends-tiktok-ban-deadline-by-75-days\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted TikTok an additional 75-day extension<\/a>, citing the Chinese government&#8217;s dissatisfaction with the US&#8217;s Reciprocal Tariffs, which must approve any deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/04\/trump-says-hes-willing-to-delay-tiktok-ban-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok Ban: Trump&#8217;s Stance US President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to further delay a ban on TikTok, having already postponed it twice. According to a report by Axios, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[135,390],"class_list":["post-18004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-tiktok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2193244774.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}