US President Trump says he has 'warm spot' for TikTok

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"I have a warm spot for TikTok that I didn't have originally," says US President Donald Trump, after giving the Chinese-owned app a 75-day grace period from a law that would ban it on national security grounds. The executive order came on the first day of Trump's second term in office and ran in seeming contrast to his first term, during which he himself tried to ban TikTok.

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00:00Essentially with TikTok I have the right to either sell it or close it and we'll

00:06make that determination and we may have to get an approval from China too I'm

00:10not sure but I'm sure they'll approve it and if they don't approve it it would be

00:16somewhat of a hostile act I think. TikTok is largely young people I guess I have a

00:21warm spot for TikTok that I didn't have originally.

00:23So you're not guaranteeing that TikTok will be around after 90 days from today?

00:27No but it it could very well be. It makes sense for it to be because it's got

00:33tremendous value.

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