U.S. President Donald Trump will extend a June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok for 90 days despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown absent significant progress, the White House said on Tuesday.

One of the first actions President Donald Trump took at the outset of his second presidency was granting a stay of execution for TikTok. Two and a half months later, he granted a second, and on June 18,

TikTok will continue to live on in the United States until at least mid-September. The TikTok ban still looms over the app's US operation, but The White House has said it will delay the enforcement of the law for another 90 days.