President-elect Donald J Trump cheered TikToks return in a rally on Sunday shortly after the platform welcomed back U.S users ending a 14-hour shutdown as a law banning TikTok nationwide took effect with President Trump promising to halt the ban when he takes office by extending a deadline for china-based ByteDance to sell the app.

While speaking during a victory rally as part of his three-day inauguration event on Sunday, telling the crown in D.C.

we have no choice, we have to save it

while suggesting the U.S will own 50% of the company in what he referred to as a “joint venture” that would “make a lot of money”