The law gave Chinese parent ByteDance a time frame to sell TikTok or face a ban.
A sale never happened, and TikTok said the ban went into effect at midnight.
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Dave Chappelle SNL Monologue Features L.A. Then, with the TikTok news, the anchors were unable to resist going to coverage of Trumps statement.
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Yes, we love TikTok, dont we?
Johnson, as Trump, said.
We also love the Rizzler, dont we folks?
Theyre trying to take the Rizzler away from us.
They want him the hell out of here.
He went on to talk about other social media sensations, including the ice bucket challenge.
We may have to go over to Reels with Mark Zuckerberg.
I like him now.
Zuck, he looks much better, much cooler in terms of perm and with regard to pain.
He will of course be at my inauguration which will be indoors too many people to fit outside.
He continued, Were very excited to be inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day.
I like sharing the day.
Then, he introduced his latest cabinet pick George Santos (Bowen Yang).
I am part of the politician to Cameo back to politician and eventually to jail pipeline.
MSNBC panelists do their best to focus on the news that matterspic.twitter.com/u7xjyz7EnD
More to come.
