Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban so he can decide app’s future (original) (raw)

President-elect Donald Trump in a legal filing Friday asked the Supreme Court to delay a potential ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok due to take effect in January to allow time for him to negotiate a way to “save the platform.”

Trump’s intervention follows his campaign promises to keep the popular social media app accessible to its more than 170 million U.S. users if he won. His brief was filed as a friend-of-the-court, not siding with either party to the case.