President Donald Trump returned to TikTok on Oct. 6 for the first time in nearly a year after his administration worked on a deal that would keep the popular video app operating in the United States.

"To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big," Trump said while seated in the Oval Office in the Oct. 6 post.

Vice President JD Vance also posted to the platform on Oct. 6 in an apparent relaunch of his account on the platform. "I got a little lazy the last few months was focused on the job of being VP and not on TikTok," Vance said.

White House officials said in September that TikTok had reached a preliminary deal to keep operating in the United States. The new U.S. venture will be valued at $14 billion, Vance said.

But various procedural hurdles

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