Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.

President Donald Trump has seemingly picked a reporter to give some of the largest scoops to ahead of his first days in office: NBC’s Kristen Welker. Welker has managed to illicit some of Trump’s most notable reactions to breaking news in the last week.

ByteDance now has to show that it’s making significant progress on a deal to sell TikTok to a US-based company.

TikTok went offline for all U.S. users on Saturday night, hours before a ban signed into law by President Joe Biden was due to take effect. If any of the approximately 170 million American users opened the app after it went dark, they were greeted with a hopeful message about the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump .

TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on January 19, the day the ban is set to take effect, without more assurances it won't be enforced.

The social media app said it would abide by a law requiring it to cease operations in the United States on Jan. 19

In a little more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the U.S., the platform is "in the process of restoring service," the company announced on X.

Alive anchor Faith Jessie talks with NBC's 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker about SCOTUS' decision on the TikTok ban.

In a wide-ranging phone interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Trump talked about his decision to move inauguration indoors and what he’ll tackle his first week in office.

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day postponement from a potential ban in the U.S. after he is sworn in. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports on the timeline of TikTok's ban before it possibly goes dark.

"We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation," the President-elect tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview

NBC Universal, Inc. President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News' "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day reprieve ...