United States President-elect Donald Trump highlighted his historic success with young voters, claiming a record-breaking share of support for a Republican candidate. "We won by 36 points with young people," Trump said, emphasizing that half of voters aged 18 to 29 backed his campaign.

Trump mentioned his son Barron's influence on this, saying the teenager encouraged him to explore podcasts and target young voters. Jokingly Trump said he might need to embrace TikTok now. "I'm gonna have to start thinking about TikTok," he quipped, drawing laughter from the audience. "Maybe we gotta keep this sucker around for a little while," he added.

The move comes amid growing global scrutiny of TikTok, with the US Supreme Court slated to hear arguments on January 10 regarding an appeal by TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to delay a regulation requiring the app's sale or ban.