Trump has approved a deal which would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States. What happened? Summary The Trump administration has agreed to push back the ban on downloads of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from app stores by one week in light of a new deal. The ban comes as the result of an executive order signed on 14 August which gave Chinese parent company ByteDance 90 days to sell TikTok to a US corporation or risk a total ban due …