Trump says he'd give TikTok another extension

Driving the news: "Perhaps I shouldn't say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok," Trump said.

• Trump said he'd like to see a deal, but he'd be willing to give the Chinese-owned app a reprieve despite not having made a deal with the social media platform's owner, ByteDance.
• Trump said he has a "little sweet spot" for the app, claiming he won young people by 36 points. He's made that statement in the past, though, as CNN fact checker Daniel Dale notes, Vice President Kamala Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24, per exit polls published by CNN.
• Trump's TikTok flip-flop ahead of last year's election was a sign that he recognized the appeal the app has for young people.

Catch up quick: Legislation passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court would have required ByteDance to divest the wildly popular app by mid-January, but Trump kicked the deadline back to April 5 with an executive order.

• Then, last month, he delayed the ban again.
• Trump said in a Truth Social post last month that his administration had "made tremendous progress" toward a TikTok deal.
• In March, he suggested to reporters he might give China a "little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done."

The bottom line: TikTok will "be protected," Trump said in the interview aired Sunday, despite his first administration spearheading the initiative to ban the app.

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