US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the US for another 75 days.

This is to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.

Trump had recently announced that the popular social media app had until Saturday to find a buyer or face a ban by the United States.

Bidders for the short-video social media site, used by 170 million Americans, such as Amazon, have since emerged prior to the deadline.

Furthermore, on Sunday, March 30, Trump said a deal with ByteDance would be struck before Saturday’s deadline. “We have a lot of potential buyers,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “There’s tremendous interest in TikTok.” He added, “I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.”

However, Trump’s delay of the ban marks the second time that he has temporarily blocked the 2024 law that banned the popular social video app after the deadline passed for ByteDance to divest. That law was passed with bipartisan support in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.

Also, Washington officials have said TikTok’s ownership by ByteDance makes it beholden to the Chinese government, and Beijing could use the app to conduct influence operations against the United States and collect data on Americans.