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

TikTok users in the U.S. flurried to social media platform X to complain that the ByteDance-owned app that went dark late on Jan. 18 was still unavailable to download on Apple and Google’s app stores,

On his first full day in office Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued sweeping actions, including ordering the shuttering of all executive branch diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and ordering all employees working in such offices to be placed on leave.

President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order Monday delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok has deepened a murky legal landscape in the US for the popular social media app and its technology partners.

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

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 returned to the Oval Office to sign a series of pardons and executive orders, including his promise to delay implementation of a law restricting TikTok. The order delays implementation of a law for 90 days,

TikTok restored service to U.S. users after Trump said he would issue an executive order after he's sworn in to delay a ban of the platform.

TikTok could still not be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores in the U.S, even after President Trump's executive order.

The president said he’s also open to another tech giant to acquire TikTok: Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. Ellison was present at the White House for a $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership between the Trump administration and OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. Oracle, a software company, houses most of TikTok's servers

Donald Trump appeared in first television interview since his Jan 20 inauguration, and spoke in detail about TikTok security risks, illegal immigration into the US and Joe Biden's pardons.