Trump says tiktok would extend if no agreement is reached on June 19: “I have a little warm place in the heart for tiktok”

• Trump said Tiktok would be “protected” And would continue to expand the deadline to prevent the application from banning. Trump said Nbc “I have a little sweet point in the heart” for the app. There are legal issues as to whether Trump has the authority to continue to extend the ban.

Tiktok, as it is now, will forbidden On June 19, but President Donald Trump says he does not plan to enforce the prohibition and will continue to expand the term for as long as it takes to transaction to join -s.

“Maybe I should not say that but I have a warm place in my heart for Tiktok,” Trump said on Sunday in a pre -interview with the Know the press Host Kristen Welker. “I have a sweet point in my heart because I won the young people by 36 points … and I focused on Tiktok.”

Trump has already given two represses Tiktok has been applied from the ban. This ban was originally planned in January. Now, Trump says, the application “will be protected”.

Trump hopes to supervise an agreement that passed social media operations to a company based in the United States, instead of the Bytedance of China. China, however, has said that it will not approve an agreement, more recently due to the rates located in this country, but the government was resistant to a long time before they came into play.

App critics say Tiktok opens American users to China’s surveillance and care about the impact of the mental health of the application on children. Bytedance and Trump have reduced the risk of the application, which use 170 million Americans.

Tiktok’s prohibition language gave Trump the power to expand the deadline in 90 days if there has been “significant progress towards a sale”. There is no language on additional extensions.

Trump technically does not have the power to stop the ban. To do it, an act of congress would be needed. The ban was approved with wide bipartisan support in April 2024.

This story originally presented to Fortune.com