Trump likely to grant TikTok 90-day extension to avoid ban in the US

In an interrogation with ABC News' Rachel Scott connected Saturday up of his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump weighed successful connected the aboriginal of societal media institution TikTok.

When asked what enactment his medication could instrumentality connected TikTok, helium said, "Well, I person the close arsenic you know, I'm the 1 who is going to beryllium calling the shots. Most likely, I'll widen for 90 days. You person the hold for 90 days arsenic you astir apt know. I'll bash that until we fig thing out."

This comes aft TikTok announced Sunday that it volition beryllium "forced to spell dark" unless the White House gives a "definitive" connection astir its future.

The announcement came aft the Supreme Court earlier successful the time upheld a instrumentality acceptable to prohibition TikTok unless the level severs ties with China-based genitor institution ByteDance by Sunday.

The Biden medication earlier Friday said it would not enforce the imaginable prohibition successful the contiguous aftermath of the deadline, leaving implementation of the instrumentality to President-elect Donald Trump, who takes bureau Monday.

However, TikTok said the messages from the Biden medication were not wide enough.

"The statements issued contiguous by some the Biden White House and the Department of Justice person failed to supply the indispensable clarity and assurance to the work providers that are integral to maintaining TikTok's availability to implicit 170 cardinal Americans," the societal media institution said successful its statement. "Unless the Biden Administration instantly provides a definitive connection to fulfill the astir captious work providers assuring non-enforcement, unfortunately, TikTok volition beryllium forced to spell acheronian connected January 19."

In effect to the TikTok statement, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said successful a connection Saturday that TikTok's menace to spell acheronian connected Sunday is simply a "stunt."

"We person laid retired our presumption intelligibly and straightforwardly: actions to instrumentality this instrumentality volition autumn to the adjacent administration. So TikTok and different companies should instrumentality up immoderate concerns with them," she said.

Earlier Friday, soon aft the Supreme Court released its decision, the White House had said enforcement of the prohibition would autumn to Trump due to the fact that of timing.

"TikTok should stay disposable to Americans, but simply nether American ownership oregon different ownership that addresses the nationalist information concerns identified by Congress successful processing this law," Jean-Pierre said aft the ruling, adding, "Given the sheer information of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to instrumentality the instrumentality simply indispensable autumn to the adjacent Administration, which takes bureau connected Monday."

Trump, who opposed the ban, has said helium volition question to reverse it.

"The Supreme Court determination was expected, and everyone indispensable respect it," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "My determination connected TikTok volition beryllium made successful the not excessively distant future, but I indispensable person clip to reappraisal the situation. Stay tuned!"

The court's ruling was unanimous, with wide Justice Sonia Sotomayor and blimpish Justice Neil Gorsuch penning concurring opinions.

"There is nary uncertainty that, for much than 170 cardinal Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and root of community," the justices said successful the ruling. "But Congress has determined that divestiture is indispensable to code its well-supported nationalist information concerns regarding TikTok's information postulation practices and narration with a overseas adversary."

It continues, "For the foregoing Per Curiam reasons, we reason that the challenged provisions bash not interruption petitioners' First Amendment rights. The judgement of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is affirmed."

In an evident effort to bounds the implications of its ruling, the tribunal said its judgement should not beryllium interpreted arsenic a rebuke of communal practices taken up by societal media companies, specified arsenic information collection.

"We stress the inherent narrowness of our holding," the unsigned ruling says. "Data postulation and investigation is simply a communal signifier successful this integer age. But TikTok's standard and susceptibility to overseas adversary control, unneurotic with the immense swaths of delicate information the level collects, warrant differential attraction to code the Government's nationalist information concerns."

In its connection astir going dark, TikTok besides referenced statements from the Justice Department.

Earlier Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland released a connection reading: "The Court's determination enables the Justice Department to forestall the Chinese authorities from weaponizing TikTok to undermine America's nationalist security. Authoritarian regimes should not person unfettered entree to millions of Americans' delicate data. The Court's determination affirms that this Act protects the nationalist information of the United States successful a mode that is accordant with the Constitution."

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said successful a statement: "The adjacent signifier of this effort - implementing and ensuring compliance with the instrumentality aft it goes into effect connected January 19 - volition beryllium a process that plays retired implicit time."

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew volition be Trump's inauguration aft receiving an invitation from the incoming administration.

Shou thanked Trump successful a video posted to TikTok aft the ruling by the Supreme Court.

"I privation to convey President Trump for his committedness to enactment with america to find a solution that keeps TikTok disposable successful the United States. This is simply a beardown basal for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship," helium said.

Shou added, "We are grateful and delight to person the enactment of a president who genuinely understands retired level -- 1 who has utilized TikTok to explicit his ain thoughts and perspectives, connecting with the satellite and generating much than 60 cardinal views of his contented successful the process.

Trump said helium had spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping connected Friday greeting with TikTok being 1 of the topics they discussed, according to a Truth Social post.

TikTok -- which boasts much than 170 cardinal U.S. users -- challenged the sale-or-ban instrumentality connected First Amendment grounds, arguing that a imaginable prohibition would bounds the free-expression rights of its users.

Lower courts, however, recovered merit successful information concerns astir imaginable information postulation oregon contented manipulation undertaken by the Chinese government.

Even aft the prohibition takes effect, TikTok could stay disposable for U.S. users.

Rather than unit TikTok to instrumentality the app dark, the instrumentality targets third-party companies similar cloud-service providers and app stores. TikTok could circumvent specified restrictions, astatine slightest temporarily, though experts accidental the prime of the app would degrade implicit time.

-ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze and Jack Moore contributed to this report.