{"id":1043,"date":"2025-06-30T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:23:23","slug":"trump-says-he-found-a-tiktok-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/trump-says-he-found-a-tiktok-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he found a TikTok buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said in a Sunday interview that he has found a buyer for TikTok, the popular video-sharing app Congress voted to ban if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, did not divest from the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,\u201d Trump said in an interview on Fox News\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d with Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I’ll need probably China approval, and I think President Xi will probably do it,\u201d he added, referring to China President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Asked whom the buyer is, Trump said, \u201cI’ll tell you in about two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president added that the buyers are \u201cvery, very wealthy people.” <\/p>\n

“It’s a group of very wealthy people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law requiring ByteDance to divest from the platform or face a ban on U.S. networks and app stores was signed by former President Biden last year.<\/p>\n

Trump signed an executive order earlier this month extending the divestiture deadline by 90 days. The new deadline is Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

The order instructed the Department of Justice not to enforce the law or impose penalties related to it, and it marked Trump\u2019s third extension since taking office in January.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court upheld the divest-or-ban law<\/a> in early January, prompting the measure to take effect Jan. 19, the day before Trump was sworn in for his second term.<\/p>\n

The platform was brought back online<\/a> in the U.S. hours later, after Trump vowed to sign an executive order once back in office to give the company an extension.<\/p>\n

Trump made good on that promise, and his first order gave ByteDance 75 days beyond the January deadline to divest from the platform amid national security concerns. A deal was finalized by the White House in early April but was never completed amid Trump\u2019s tariff fight with China.<\/p>\n

The president then signed another executive order in April, extending the deadline by another 75 days, which was set to expire June 19, when he issued the most recent extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump said in a Sunday interview that he has found a buyer for TikTok, the popular video-sharing app Congress voted to ban if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, did<\/p>\n

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