An executive order signed by Trump gave the social media’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, 75 days to sell its interests. The company has about a month remaining to do so with the deadline on April 5.
“We have a lot of interest in TikTok. China is going to play a role, so hopefully China will approve of the deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “But they’re going to play a role.”
“But we have a lot of interest in TikTok,” the president reiterated.
Trump fought to keep the company online after it briefly went dark the day before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, stirring considerable controversy among the app’s users and forcing many toward another Chinese app, RedNote.
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