TikTok's mushy deadline

TikTok didn't get any help from the U.S. Supreme Court today, but that Sunday deadline is feeling less and less like the end of the app in the U.S., regardless.

The latest: The court this morning upheld a law that could ban the wildly popular video platform this weekend in the U.S., Axios' Sam Baker writes.

• The nine justices unanimously rejected TikTok's claims that the sell-or-ban law passed by Congress this year violates the First Amendment.

Yes, but: President Biden — who signed the bill into law — doesn't plan to enforce it before leaving office on Monday, Axios' Dan Primack noted this morning.

• And the guy taking Biden's desk Monday doesn't sound too eager to drop the hammer either.
• "My decision on TikTok will be made in the not too distant future, but I must have time to review the situation," Trump wrote on Truth Social today, saying the Supreme Court decision wasn't a surprise. "Stay tuned!"
• (Trump said he talked about TikTok, among other things, with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, Axios' Barak Ravid reports.)

Shortly after Trump's posts today, TikTok CEO Shou Chew — who Trump had already invited to sit on his inauguration dais — posted a video thanking the president-elect for "his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States."

What we're watching: There's a growing appetite in Congress, including among original supporters of the law just passed, to give TikTok a reprieve.

• All while one American bidder said he's funded and ready to go.