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Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay a legislative deadline to force the sale or ban of TikTok to provide a “political solution” when Donald Trump is sworn in as president next month.
According to a bill passed by Congress in April, Chinese parents must leave ByteDance Tiktok as if January 19, 2025 — the day before Trump is inaugurated as president — or face a nationwide ban.
The law comes after US officials warned the platform posed a national security threat. Bite dance Under Chinese law, it could be forced to share the personal data of the 170 million Americans who use the video app with Beijing.
But Trump has asked the Supreme Court to stay the deadline, considering the merits of the case, to give his incoming administration “an opportunity to provide a political solution to the questions raised in the case.” The case was filed on Friday.
On the campaign trail before his re-election, Trump vowed to oppose the ban. “Save” the application..
The move to do so represents a U-turn from 2020, when then-President Trump ordered the app banned in the US and gave ByteDance 90 days to remove any data it collected from its US properties and TikTok in the US. That order was blocked in court and eventually overturned by US President Joe Biden, who later signed the bill into law.
The brief reads: “President Trump has the unique bargaining power, electoral power, and political will to negotiate solutions that will save the nation on the national security issues identified by the administration — concerns that President Trump himself has acknowledged.”
Trump “has no standing as a result of this litigation,” the filing added.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The request puts Trump, who has no power on the Supreme Court as president, in the middle of a series of legal proceedings that could determine the fate of the popular app in the US.
The High Court has scheduled oral arguments on the matter for January 10.
The briefing comes after the Supreme Court decided to hear TikTok’s appeal earlier this month, rejecting a lower court challenge to the law and seeking to halt the move pending further court proceedings.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law earlier this month, citing TikTok’s claim that it is unconstitutional and violates First Amendment protections of free speech.
