TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew met with President-elect Trump in Florida on Monday, becoming the latest technology leader to meet with the president-elect ahead of Inauguration Day.
Trump and Chu met on Monday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.
The talks come as Chu's TikTok faces an uncertain path in the United States.
The platform has filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court seeking a stay on a law banning the video-sharing platform nationwide as early as next month unless it withdraws from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Trump spoke out against anti-sell laws during his campaign, promising to “save TikTok” without providing many details about how he plans to protect the app.
Asked Monday if he would try to prevent the ban from taking effect, the president-elect said, “I will consider it.”
“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” he said at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, adding, “We won by a 34-point margin over the young people. There are some people who say they do.” ”
It is unclear whether the comment came before or after the meeting with Chu.
TikTok's filing asks the court to put a Jan. 19 deadline for a sale or ban on hold until a judge resolves TikTok's First Amendment claims based on regular filings.
The law in question was signed by President Biden last April and set a timeline for ByteDance to sell its platform or be banned from U.S. app stores and networks.
ByteDance has argued that a sale would be virtually impossible, meaning the law would effectively amount to a nationwide ban on video-sharing platforms.
President Trump reportedly met with technology leaders this month, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Sources told The Hill that he will meet Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday and later this week, Amazon CEO ( He plans to meet with CEO Jeff Bezos.
Some observers believe the move by several tech leaders, particularly Social Platform X, SpaceX, and Tesla.
Meta and Amazon announced last week that they would each donate $1 million to President Trump's inauguration fund, and OpenAI's Sam Altman said he would donate the same amount from his personal funds.
Contributed by Brett Samuels.
