President Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
The president had initially given China’s ByteDance until Saturday to sell or divest its U.S. TikTok business. The company now has 75 additional days.
Trump said his EO will give TikTok's Chinese parent company another 75 days to sell its stake in the social media app or else be banned in the U.S.
TikTok gets another last-minute reprieve ahead of an April 5 deadline to sell itself or face a nationwide ban in the U.S.
Trump originally set an April 5 deadline for TikTok to be taken offline if it wasn’t sold by its Chinese parent company. Now a new executive order will keep it up and running for 75 more days.
The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout flipped the Chinese government’s position on the issue, the Washington Examiner has learned.
President Trump said Friday that he will sign an executive order to extend the deadline for China-based tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer. ByteDance later acknowledged in a statement that it was working with the U.
Trump said he will sign an executive order to extend the April 5 deadline by another 75 days. President Donald Trump said Friday that he is signing an executive order to extend TikTok ’s deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer by another 75 days, giving parent company ByteDance more time to make a deal for the popular social media app.
Donald Trump’s initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would’ve expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that “I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”