TikTok’s best hope at staving off an imminent ban may depend on the app’s wealthy backers bending Trump’s ear.

President-elect Donald Trump is meeting with the TikTok CEO Shou Chew at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, a source familiar told ABC News.

Trump told reporters that he believed the social media app helped him gain ground with young voters in the 2024 election.

President-elect Donald Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Monday as the company asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block a law that would essentially ban the social media app if it is not sold by January, a source familiar with Trump's plans confirmed to Newsweek.

As president, Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts. He has since changed his position.

TikTok is slated to be banned from app stores on Jan. 19. The platform's survival in the United States could depend on whether Trump intervenes.

Donald Trump reportedly met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Monday to discuss the app's potential ban by the US government. The two men reportedly had a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, according to NBC News.

US president-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Beijing and Washington could work together "to solve all of the problems of the world", a sweeping statement issued a little more than a month before he returns to office.

Ek is one of at least 10 CEOs who’ve spoken with Trump or trekked down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him in person since the election – often bringing along a $1 million check for his inauguration. The C-suite parade is one of the spoils of Trump’s November victory,

The president-elect’s gatherings at Mar-a-Lago are reminiscent of the Middle East social tradition In the Persian Gulf region, Arab leaders have for millennia presided over a unique social tradition known as the majlis,

TikTok has until Jan. 19 to divest from its China-based parent company, one day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.