Mike Waltz: Trump Team Is Confident About Keeping TikTok While Protecting Americans

The incoming national security adviser said Trump’s looking for a deal that would save the app and ‘protect Americans’ data and protect them from influence.’
Mike Waltz: Trump Team Is Confident About Keeping TikTok While Protecting Americans
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) walks into the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 14, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
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The incoming administration is confident it can keep TikTok running in the United States while protecting America’s national security, according to Mike Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump’s appointee for national security adviser.

Waltz said in an interview with CNN on Sunday that options to get the social media app back online range from “an outright sale” to “some mechanism of firewalls to make sure that the data is protected here on U.S. soil.”