Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.

Video sharing app TikTok returned Sunday after a 12 hour outage due to a U.S. government ban. What happens when Trump takes office? What we know.

TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on January 19, the day the ban is set to take effect, without more assurances it won't be enforced.

President Donald Trump has seemingly picked a reporter to give some of the largest scoops to ahead of his first days in office: NBC’s Kristen Welker. Welker has managed to illicit some of Trump’s most notable reactions to breaking news in the last week.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States. Here's what to know about the potential ban.

Hours after the current ownership of TikTok cited Trump as their only hope, the incoming president stepped up to the plate for the embattled app. The post ‘SAVE TIKTOK!’ Trump Voices Support for Embattled App Hours After it Goes Offline in the US first appeared on Mediaite.

In a little more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the U.S., the platform is "in the process of restoring service," the company announced on X.

The fight for TikTok may not be over just yet. While speaking with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day grace period to avoid getting banned in the U.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

Potential buyers for TikTok US include MrBeast, Kevin O'Leary, Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and Perplexity AI, who bid a merger instead of a sale,

"We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation," the President-elect tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day postponement from a potential ban in the U.S. after he is sworn in. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports on the timeline of TikTok's ban before it possibly goes dark.