Wait… Was That The TikTok Ban?

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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President Trump tried to ban TikTok during his first term, but now he’s being hailed as the app’s savior. WSJ’s Georgia Wells explains the saga to make a deal with the Chinese-owned social media app. Further Reading: -TikTok Restoring Service for U.S. Users, After Trump Signals He Will Save It -What Happens Now That TikTok’s Gone Dark? Further Listening: -The TikTok Ban Goes to the Supreme Court -Readers Can’t Get Enough of BookTok. Publishers Are Cashing In. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Monday, just hours after he was sworn into office, President Donald Trump signed a stack of executive orders.
0:13.2	One of them delayed enforcement of a ban on TikTok in the U.S.
0:19.4	The president signed an executive order to delay the ban on TikTok for 75 days in hopes of giving
0:25.4	the app's Chinese owner enough time to sell off its U.S. assets.
0:30.2	Wasn't it President Trump who back in 2020 was the person who sort of kicked off this
0:35.4	whole effort to ban TikTok in the first place?
0:38.1	Yes, the very same President Trump.
0:40.6	Our colleague Georgia Wells reports on TikTok.
0:43.3	This has been utter whiplash.
0:47.7	That Trump, in his first term, the president who tried to ban or take away TikTok in this country, is now the person
0:57.4	who's spearheading an attempt to bring it back, so much so that in the push alert to users, TikTok
1:02.8	thanks President Trump for his work on this. So TikTok is still functioning. It's thanking President
1:10.3	Trump. But is the story really over? Is it really actually saved now? So this is still functioning. It's thanking President Trump, but is the story really over? Is it really actually saved now?
1:14.2	So this is a company that has been facing the prospect of a ban for years and seems to have potentially shifted the tide on this ban attempt, but it's not done. We are very much still in a wait and see.
1:29.2	TikTok still has this law hanging over its head. It has a brief reprieve, but this is not done for TikTok.
1:38.1	Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Ryan Knudsen.
1:44.6	It's Tuesday, January 21st.
1:51.2	Coming up on the show, the TikTok ban that wasn't?
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