After initially calling for TikTok to be banned during his first term, Trump has reversed his stance on the popular video-sharing platform.
In January, the US Supreme Court upheld a law, passed in April 2024, banning the app in the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sold its US arm.
The US Justice Department has said that because of its access to data on American users, TikTok poses “a national-security threat of immense depth and scale”.
However, ByteDance has resisted a sale, maintaining its US operations are completely separate, and says no information is shared with the Chinese state.
TikTok briefly went dark in January, but this lasted for less than a day before the initial ban was delayed.
The deadline for a sale has since been extended three times, and the latest delay to the ban is due to end on 17 September.