{"id":391,"date":"2025-06-19T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinhollenbeck.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:04:57","slug":"trump-extends-tiktok-ban-deadline-for-a-third-time-without-clear-legal-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinhollenbeck.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/trump-extends-tiktok-ban-deadline-for-a-third-time-without-clear-legal-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/06\/further-extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay\/\">executive order<\/a>\u00a0to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Trump disclosed the executive order on the Truth Social platform Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s making an extension so we can get this deal done,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s wildly popular. He also wants to protect Americans\u2019 data and privacy concerns on this app. And he believes we can do both at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-ban-fire-congressmans-office-wisconsin-a815e6592bea4c028b1c7748491461ed\">approved by Congress<\/a>\u00a0and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 took effect. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df\">second was in April<\/a>\u00a0when White House officials believed they were nearing a deal to spin off TikTok into a new company with U.S. ownership that fell apart after China backed out following Trump\u2019s tariff announcement.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how many times Trump can \u2014 or will \u2014 keep extending the ban as the government continues to try to negotiate a deal for TikTok, which is owned by China\u2019s ByteDance. While there is no clear legal basis for the extensions, so far there have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tiktok-ban-china-supreme-court-37284ac35241b1822c9f5da7c9d719d2\">no legal challenges to fight them<\/a>. Trump has amassed more than 15 million followers on TikTok since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/news-highlights\/elections\/2024\/trump-joins-tiktok-and-calls-it-an-honor-as-president-he-once-tried-to-ban-the-video-sharing-app\/\">he joined last year<\/a>, and he has credited the trendsetting platform with helping him gain traction among young voters. He said in January that he has a \u201cwarm spot for TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok praised Trump for signing an extension Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for President Trump\u2019s leadership and support in ensuring that TikTok continues to be available for more than 170 million American users and 7.5 million U.S. businesses that rely on the platform as we continue to work with Vice President Vance\u2019s Office,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As the extensions continue, it appears less and less likely that TikTok will be banned in the U.S. any time soon. The decision to keep TikTok alive through an executive order has received some scrutiny, but it has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tiktok-ban-china-supreme-court-37284ac35241b1822c9f5da7c9d719d2\">not faced a legal challenge in court<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 unlike many of Trump\u2019s other executive orders.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"\" data-relation-type=\"automatic-primary-section\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/21\/denver-crypto-school-lawsuit-coinbridge\/\" title=\"Phony Denver crypto school robbed Florida man of $860K, he says\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tPhony Denver crypto school robbed Florida man of $860K, he says\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/20\/why-colorados-massive-home-inventory-failed-to-spark-buyer-interest-in-may-real-estate-voices\/\" title=\"Why Colorado\u2019s massive home inventory failed to spark buyer interest in May\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tSponsored: Why Colorado\u2019s massive home inventory failed to spark buyer interest in May\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/20\/passwords-leaked\/\" title=\"Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tBillions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/20\/safeway-albertsons-strike-walkouts-expand\/\" title=\"Safeway and Albertsons negotiations stall again, union plans to expand Colorado walkouts\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tSafeway and Albertsons negotiations stall again, union plans to expand Colorado walkouts\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/20\/dia-denver-hotel-purchase-voyage-capital\/\" title=\"Partially built hotel near DIA sells for nearly $22M\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tPartially built hotel near DIA sells for nearly $22M\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jeremy Goldman, analyst at Emarketer, called TikTok\u2019s U.S situation a \u201cdeadline purgatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing \u201cis starting to feel less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone. This political Groundhog Day is starting to resemble the debt ceiling drama: a recurring threat with no real resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not stopping TikTok from pushing forward with its platform, Forrester analyst Kelsey Chickering says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok\u2019s behavior also indicates they\u2019re confident in their future, as they rolled out new AI video tools at Cannes this week,\u201d Chickering notes. \u201cSmaller players, like Snap, will try to steal share during this \u2018uncertain time,\u2019 but they will not succeed because this next round for TikTok isn\u2019t uncertain at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, TikTok continues to function for its 170 million users in the U.S., and tech giants Apple, Google and Oracle were persuaded to continue to offer and support the app, on the promise that Trump\u2019s Justice Department would not use the law to seek potentially steep fines against them.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are even more closely divided on what to do about TikTok than they were two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/03\/25\/fewer-americans-now-support-tiktok-ban-see-the-platform-as-a-national-security-threat-than-in-spring-2023\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a>\u00a0found that about one-third of Americans said they supported a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023. Roughly one-third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage said they weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who said they supported banning the social media platform, about 8 in 10 cited concerns over users\u2019 data security being at risk as a major factor in their decision, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the Trump administration is once again \u201cflouting the law and ignoring its own national security findings about the risks\u201d posed by a China-controlled TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn executive order can\u2019t sidestep the law, but that\u2019s exactly what the president is trying to do,\u201d Warner added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an\u00a0executive order\u00a0to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. 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