Trump asks Supreme Court to delay potential implementation of TikTok ban

Despite Donald Trump's previous statements against the use of TikTok in America because of national security concerns, the president-elect appears to be changing his stance after the app helped him win the 2024 presidential election.

According to the New York Post, Trump is going straight to the Supreme Court and asking the justices to delay any prospective implementation of a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S.

Currently, the law is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 19, 2025, just one day before Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States of America.

Trump wants a ruling on the legality of the implementation of the law delayed at least until he takes office.

The president may have previously suggested that the security threats of having a Chinese-owned app operate in America might warrant the app being banned, but that changed after he won the November election and developed a "warm spot" for TikTok.

According to USA Today, "Voters ages 18 to 29 shifted more toward Trump than they had in past elections, but data from Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement found that Vice President Kamala Harris won young voters 52% to 56%."

Trump lawyer John Sauer recently wrote to the Supreme Court on behalf of Donald Trump, asking them to delay the banning of TikTok so that the matter could be addressed "through political means" instead.

Only losing young voters by four points is way better than Republicans have done in the past, and Trump has credited his time on the podcast circuit as well as apps like TikTok with helping him close that gap.

"President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns," Sauer wrote. "In light of these interests — including, most importantly, his overarching responsibility for the United States’ national security and foreign policy — President Trump opposes banning TikTok in the United States at this juncture, and seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office."

The owner of TikTok is ByteDance, a Chinese firm with ties to the CCP. ByteDance has until Jan. 19 to completely divest from the app or face an outright ban in the United States, but it doesn't appear as though ByteDance is willing to cooperate.

Instead of shutting down the app, Trump wants some more time to find an alternative.

Do you think that Trump should have stuck to his original ideas about banning TikTok, or do you think he was right to reevaluate after his 2024 election win?

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