TikTok’s CEO met with Trump as the fight to delay ban heads to Supreme Court

• TikTok CEO Shou Chew met Trump at Mar-a-Lago Monday, multiple outlets reported.
• TikTok is trying to avoid an impending ban of the app.
• Trump has said he is opposed to the TikTok ban, saying he has a “warm spot” for the app.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday as the popular video-sharing app fights to avoid an impending ban, multiple outlets reported, citing a person familiar with the meeting.

Earlier on Monday, TikTok asked the US Supreme Court to block the law that requires the app to be sold by January 19 or be shut down. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, argued the ban violates the First Amendment rights of the millions of Americans who use the app. The request came after a panel of federal judges earlier this month upheld the ban.

Representatives for Trump and TikTok did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

Details of the meeting were unclear. Trump has spoken out against the TikTok ban, which was passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden earlier this year.

“We’ll take a look at TikTok,” Trump said at a press conference earlier on Monday. “You know, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok.”

Trump also said at the press conference that company executives have been more open to meeting with him ahead of his second term and that during his first term they were “hostile.”

“Everybody was fighting me,” he said. “This term, everybody wants to be my friend. I don’t know. My personality changed or something.”

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