As lawmakers in both parties seem poised to enact legislation that could lead to TikTok shutting down in the United States, the Chinese spy app appears to have found an unlikely supporter in former President Donald Trump.

The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in China and has been heavily scrutinized due to its ties to the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok, like many other social media apps, collects enormous amounts of data from its users, but its connection to the CCP has raised serious concerns that user data are being collected by the Chinese government, possibly giving it wide access to the personal information of millions of U.S. citizens. TikTok denies the CCP has access to user data.