Donald Trump has signed an executive order to postpone the prohibition or sale of Tiktok for the third time. The order gives the Chinese social media company for 90 days to find a buyer or to be banned in the US.
“I have just signed the executive order that the deadline for the Tiktok -closure is expanding 90 days (September 17, 2025),” the president said in a social truth after.
Trump’s first executive order gave Tiktok a delay that came to the office on his first day – only three days after the Supreme Court ruled to maintain the ban. Trump issued the second executive order in April. The deadline for the sale or prohibition was then set on 19 June. Now Tiktok has until September.
Mark Warner, a democratic senator and the vice-chairman of the Senate Committee, accused Trump of circumventing the law with an executive order.
“Again, the Trump administration is to reject the law and to ignore its own national security results about the risks of a PRC-controlled Tiktok,” Warner said in a statement.
Tiktok is a hugely popular social media app with 170 million users in the US. Bytedance, Tiktok’s parent company, said in April that it had been in discussion with the American government about a solution to the app. It added that every agreement “will be subject to approval according to Chinese law”.
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Before Trump gave his second executive order to Tiktok, it was reportedly a possible deal. But, According to ReutersChina put that deal on hold after Trump had announced radical rates against the country.
At the time, Trump indicated that he used rates for leverage in the deal. “We have a situation with Tiktok where China will probably say that we will approve a deal, but do you want to do something about the rates. The rates give us a lot of power to negotiate,” Trump said.
The idea of banning Tiktok was created at Trump in 2020, who said that the app in Chinese ownership was a danger to national security. It soon became a two -part issue and the congress voted overwhelming to ban the app last year, which provided a legal challenge, but eventually confirmed in the Supreme Court. The original deadline for the ticking ban was on January 19.
Trump switched his position on Tiktok after the app was added during the President campaign last year, collecting nearly 15 million followers and organizing the Tiktok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, on the Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. Chew also attended Trump’s inauguration.
Various American investors have shown interest in buying the social media app, which is probably worth tens of billions of dollars. Among those who have reportedly thrown bids, a consortium led by the software giant Oracle, asset manager Blackstone, Amazon, Walmart, billionaire Frank McCourt, a crypto foundation and the founder of the adult website only fans.
Tiktok, Bytedance and the White House have not sent any requests for comments.
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