Trump’s brief message lays out his intention to seek partial American ownership of TikTok, but it isn’t clear he has authority to suspend the law that shut it down this weekend.

President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of TikTok, just hours after major app stores removed the popular social media site and it stopped operating for U.S. users.

The president-elect on Sunday said his TikTok executive order would "extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take effect."