One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president will be to rescue TikTok, one of America’s favorite social media obsessions, his allies tell The Washington Post. If the app does not find an owner based outside of China by January,

The president-elect promised to ‘save’ the social media app, which faces a deadline early next year to find a non-China-based owner.

Former Trump campaign adviser Kellyanne Conway told The Washington Post Trump thinks there are “many ways to hold China to account outside alienating 180 million U.S. users each month.”

Under the Biden administration, TikTok was told to find a new owner by January next year that is not based in China, or it would lose access to its users in America. A second Trump presidency would be favorable for the company and allow him fulfill the promise he made to protect the app during his campaign trail.