TikTok’s US chief says video site will stay despite Donald Trump’s ban

TikTok will continue to operate its hit music video app in the US, whatever comes of the threatened Trump administration ban on its business, senior executive Vanessa Pappas said.

“We believe we have multiple paths forward to ensure that we continue to provide this amazing app experience to the millions of Americans who come to rely on it every day,” Pappas said Thursday in one of her first interviews since US President Donald Trump issued executive orders calling for the sale of TikTok’s US business by its Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd., or a complete shutdown of its American operations, citing national security concerns.