The incoming President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has filed a request before the Supreme Court to delay the implementation of a new law set to ban TikTok owned by ByteDance.
Trump‘s attorney, John Sauer, said in a brief filed on Friday, December 27, that the former president is requesting that the Court halt the ban so that he can attempt to find a “political resolution.”
“The electoral mandate and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns” is what Trump highlighted in the filing as evidence of his ability to negotiate.
The latest move comes days after Trump disclosed that he would like to keep ByteDance’s social media app, TikTok, for ‘a little while’.
Trump said that he has a soft spot for the app because his presidential campaign got a great response on the app with billions of views.
“We’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, billions and billions of views,” Trump told supporters at an event in the city of Phoenix, Arizona.
“They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was so beautiful to see, and as I looked at it, I said, ‘Maybe we gotta keep this sucker around for a little while.