As TikTok shut down on Saturday, a final message to US users suggested it was relying on President Trump to save the app.

Once he takes office on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump plans to give TikTok a 90-day 'reprieve' from a ban, he told NBC News on Saturday.

Meanwhile, NBC News pointed out that Trump’s stance on TikTok is a flip-flop after he signed executive orders to ban the app as well as the Chinese messaging app WeChat during his first term. That measure was blocked by the courts.

The incoming president said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension called for in a law upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday to see it sold or banned by a deadline tomorrow. In a phone interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News,

President-elect Donald Trump said he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day grace period to avoid getting banned once he takes office on Jan. 20.

In July 2020, then-President Donald Trump told reporters he would ban TikTok. The next month, he signed an executive order seeking to ban the app.

President-elect Donald Trump told ABC News he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban in the United States.

A day before TikTok is set to go dark in the U.S., Donald Trump says he may step in to avoid a ban on the wildly popular app.

TikTok’s ban marooned over 170 million monthly users who made the wildly addictive short-form video app a central part of their daily lives.

President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.

The controversial Chinese-owned app TikTok has gone offline, about an hour and a half before a deadline that would see it banned in the US.The app posted a message at about 10.30 p.m. eastern time saying: “Sorry,