During his first interview as the US President during his second term, Trump defended TikTok and said phones, computers made in China were a far bigger threat

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be supportive of the world's richest man and his close aide, Elon Musk, buying TikTok "if he wanted to". Trump was asked if he would be open to the billionaire founder of Tesla buying the short-video platform facing a nationwide ban in the US after the Supreme Court last week upheld a law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.

Donald Trump is now being hailed as TikTok's savior after he tried to ban the app during his White House first term.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to further delay the TikTok ban in the U.S. In a statement shared hours after he was sworn in on Monday, Jan. 20, Trump announced he was giving TikTok 75 more days before a law banning the social media platform in the U.S. would take effect.

Trump suggested all electronic products manufactured in China could carry a spying risk, adding that TikTok's was not the most serious of them

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