TMTPOST -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday extended a deadline for ByteDance Ltd. to divest from TikTok operations in the country under a sell-or-ban law. Credit:China Daily With an executive order on Friday, Trump kept TikTok running for another 75 days prior to the deadline on Saturday. That was the president’s second order to avoid the popular short video platform and application shutting down in the United States. On January 20, his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to suspend application of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”) to TikTok temporarily, instructing not to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days. The Act, which went into effect in April 2024, gives China-based tech giant ByteDance 270 days to dives