Posted on 04/05/2025 9:28:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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.S. government on a sale but that an agreement had not been reached.
“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”
The popular social media platform faced a possible ban in the United States for the second time this year if ByteDance did not strike a deal to sell partial ownership by April 5.
Trump's decision to extend the deadline comes two days after Amazon and a startup run by Tim Stokely, the founder of adult content site OnlyFans, both placed last-minute bids to purchase TikTok. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance, who is in charge of overseeing the TikTok sale with national security adviser Michael Waltz, said he believed a sale would be reached before the April 5 deadline.
"I think that we're in a good place," Vance said in an interview on Fox & Friends. "We're going to keep on working at it."
On Jan. 19, TikTok temporarily went dark for its 170 million U.S. users, after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from ByteDance due to national security concerns. But the outage lasted only a few hours before access to the app was restored, according to a message displayed to users, “as a result of President Trump’s efforts.”
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That won’t be enough time for me to ever figure out how to use it.
The globalists really despise a message platform they can’t control. Here they are, once again, perverting the law for their own gain.
Which is why they're going after X and TikTok.
Talk of Walmart is thinking of popping for the deal too.
Sadly, iin conflict with the law that Congress passed and sign by Biden.
It may be a bad law, but it is the law.
To think that people (ignorantly) believe that an Executive Order can in essence nullify that law.
It wasn’t right when Biden did it. It’s not right now.
According to the law, we have 15 more days. Then Trump will not bother to enforce it for 60 days after that.
Seems pretty reasonable because Trump is trying to make a deal.
That's a fair point. We'll see if the PRC will agree to part with TikTok.
They were supposed to spin off its US operations into a new company owned by U.S. investors but tariffs halted the potential deal.
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