President-elect Donald Trump said he wants service providers such as Apple and Google to bring TikTok back online in the United States, proposing the creation of a joint venture in which the United States would own 50 percent of the app.

"I ask the company not to let TikTok continue to be dark!" Trump wrote on "The Sunday Truth Society." "I will issue an executive order on Monday extending the time the legal ban is in effect so that we can reach agreements to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that any company that helped prevent TikTok from shutting down before my order will not be liable any responsibility."

Part of the motivation appears to be his own inauguration on Monday, which Trump said "Americans deserve to see." He called the joint venture idea an "original idea" and said, "By doing this, we saved TikTok, put it in good hands, and allowed it to speak. Without U.S. approval, there would be no TikTok. After our Approved, it would be worth hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars."

Shortly after the ban took effect, Republican lawmakers poured cold water on the idea that Donald Trump would be able to end the TikTok ban without selling the app when he returns to office on Monday. Trump has previously proposed exercising a 90-day extension written into law to extend the sale deadline, and has reportedly considered issuing an executive order.

"We're going to enforce the law," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "When President Trump put out a truth post and said 'Save TikTok,' our interpretation was that he was going to try to force a real divestment." Johnson added, "The only way to extend that is if there's a real deal going on In the making.”

"Now that the law is already in effect, there is no legal basis to 'extend' its effective date," Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Pete Ricketts said in a statement. "To For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies legally qualified divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and communist China.”

With Trump's Republican allies in Congress casting doubt on the idea of ​​suspending the ban without a real deal to shed foreign adversary ownership, service providers like Apple and Google are unlikely to risk billions in fines The risk is what Trump will face if a court rules that he is wrong about his power to terminate the law.

But creating a 50% U.S.-owned voice platform joint venture also has potential First Amendment concerns of its own. Johnson's comments on "Meet the Press" about why lawmakers were concerned about the app further suggested that Congress did consider content on the platform when deciding to pass the law — though the Supreme Court didn't consider that a reason to consider it unconstitutional. . “They are indoctrinating American children with horrific messages that glorify violence and anti-Semitism and even suicide and eating disorders,” Johnson said. “This is a very dangerous thing. The Chinese Communist Party is not our friend, and we have to make sure it changes hands. "