Advisers to Donald Trump have discussed having the incoming president sign an executive order to “save” TikTok shortly after he’s sworn in Monday in the Capitol Rotunda — in the presence of the video app’s chief executive as well as lawmakers who backed legislation to ban the app as a national security threat.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

Just a day ahead of his inauguration in Washington, Trump said on Sunday that he will issue an executive order that would protect from liability any companies hosting or distributing TikTok, activity that became illegal when the divest-or-ban law came into effect earlier in the day.