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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order extending the deadline by another 90 days for TikTok to be sold to a US entity or banned in the country.
The video-sharing platform, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, now has until September 17 to find an American buyer, according to a post by Trump on Truth Social.
He had floated the idea of another extension in May, telling reporters: “Probably, yeah. Probably have to get China approval but I think we’ll get it. I think President Xi will ultimately approve it.”
It’s the third extension Trump has granted the platform after it helped him win over young voters in the 2024 election.
A congressionally mandated ban on the app was initially due to take effect in January, but the app went dark in the US for just 14 hours before Trump issued a reprieve.
The president has called for ByteDance to divest the US assets of TikTok on national security grounds, claiming it could give China access to a vast reserve of American user data.
