President Donald Trump signed an executive order to further delay the TikTok ban in the U.S. In a statement shared hours after he was sworn in on Monday, Jan. 20, Trump announced he was giving TikTok 75 more days before a law banning the social media platform in the U.S. would take effect.

Donald Trump is now being hailed as TikTok's savior after he tried to ban the app during his White House first term.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be supportive of the world's richest man and his close aide, Elon Musk, buying TikTok "if he wanted to". Trump was asked if he would be open to the billionaire founder of Tesla buying the short-video platform facing a nationwide ban in the US after the Supreme Court last week upheld a law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.

International investors have long flocked to the US as a country of clear laws, strong property rights and robust institutions. They may want to revise that view if the rollercoaster ride that is TikTok,

President Donald Trump has pivoted from calling for TikTok to be banned, during his previous term, to now working on a deal to keep the social media app staying in business in the U.S.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday (January 25) that he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision over the Chinese short-video platform's future in the next 30 days.