TikTok Could Be Back Up On The Chopping Block Soon

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Jun 17, 2025 - 22:10

The Unbearable Lightness of TikTok has been an annoying ongoing saga. I’d prefer a hard yes or no to a waffling will they/won’t they prospect of an incoming ban, but I’m ultimately not the one who calls the shots — I just report them. We are currently two DOJ directives to not ban the app deep. Will Trump pivot toward a crackdown or push toward a third extension? Market Watch has coverage:

President Donald Trump threw a lifeline to TikTok in January, and he did it again in April. Now, a repeat performance is widely expected by Thursday, when his latest extension is due to run out.
Trump keeps ordering the Justice Department not to enforce a bipartisan law that was intended to ban TikTok nationwide as of Jan. 19 as long as the video-sharing platform remains controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd.

Enough of the threatening to take your ball home because the score isn’t going your team’s way! If Trump decides against extending the TikTok deadline, it will probably be because of how bad his little no-show birthday parade is getting flamed:

@philipdefranco
Trump’s Military Parade Was A Humiliation #usa #america No one went to Trump’s birthday parade and it’s incredibly humiliating for him and he humiliated America by having it. The No Kings Day protests were reportedly one of the largest mass protests in American history, and in contrast Trump sat alone at a party that no one came to. Some have said “what did he expect? He has the lowest approval rating in history for a President at this point.” The parade was so empty and quiet that you could hear the wheels on the Sherman tank squeaking. The birthday boy was also bored out of his mind, he practically fall asleep several times. In addition to that, our soldiers appear to be unable to march in lock step. Look at other countries compared to us, this is China. Russians online are mocking us, saying “what Trump imagined his parade would be vs what it was”. There is a debate amongst veterans who say “we’re trained to march so these soldiers intentionally did it poorly”, and that’s actually a talking point that both sides are using but with different objectives of course. While other veterans say that the US military doesn’t have ceremonial marching units so this was gonna look bad no matter what. Prior to yesterday’s parade, the Army had reportedly spent over 3 years planning festivals all across the nation to celebrate their 250th birthday where Americans could come and see items from the Army’s past and present. But it was overruled by Trump who decided that there would be no festivals and that the celebration would happen on his birthday and it would be a parade. ♬ original sound – Philip DeFranco

This is par for the course when you determine the legality of a thing not based on the law or the Constitution, but the ego of the lead dude in charge. It is hard to oversell the importance of TikTok as an American soft power platform — and given that the majority of the content is decidedly against American state doxa, I’d assume that access to the app is teetering toward the liability side of the equation.

Keep in mind that the original justification for the ban from January, national security concerns, loses steam as each day compounds without clear proof of some dastardly information breach. We have until Thursday to see what happens. In the meantime, hop on the newest Keith Lee dance trend to get as many followers as you can before the state stamps out a major speech platform:

@yk_ace1
@Keith Lee mind u I ain’t seen bro on my fyp in a grip #trending #viral #keithlee #pluto ♬ Pull Yo Skirt Up – PLUTO

Trump Is Set To Delay The TikTok Ban Again. Could He Face A Lawsuit? [Market Watch]

Earlier: TikTok Is Under New Management And Features New Free Speech Issues

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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