Donald Trump is reportedly considering issuing an executive order to suspend the U.S. ban on TikTok when he enters the White House on January 20.

According to the Washington Post, the president-elect is working on an executive order to delay enforcement of the sales or prohibition law that was originally scheduled to take effect on January 19. However, the report added that Trump's legal basis for suspending a law passed by Congress is questionable.

Under legal terms, the short video app's U.S. operations must be sold by its Chinese owners by Sunday. Without a sale, new users won't be able to download TikTok from the app store.

However, TikTok is preparing to completely shut down the app to U.S. users on Sunday unless the Supreme Court steps in to block the law, according to tech news site The Information.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, that Trump and his team were considering an executive order to suspend enforcement of the law for 60 to 90 days. The Supreme Court will also rule on whether to allow the law to proceed, although a hearing last week suggested it was unlikely to block the legislation.

Trump said last month that "I have a good feeling about TikTok in my heart" and asked the Supreme Court to suspend the law so that he could seek a "political solution" after taking office. The U.S. Congress voted to ban the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Inc., over concerns that the Chinese government could access the data of its 170 million U.S. users.

"TikTok itself is a great platform," Trump's incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz told Fox News on Wednesday. "We're going to find a way to preserve it while protecting people's data."

The New York Times also reported that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, has been invited to attend Trump's inauguration and will serve in a "position of honor."

NBC reported that the Biden administration has been weighing options to keep social media platforms open after Sunday, trying to delay the decision to Trump.

"Americans should not expect TikTok to be suddenly banned on Sunday," an administration official told NBC.