President Trump said early Tuesday that he will likely extend the deadline once again for TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company ByteDance, preventing a U.S. ban from going into effect.
When asked whether he would give the popular video-sharing platform another extension, the president told reporters aboard Air Force One, “Probably, yeah.”
“Probably have to get China approval, but I think we’ll get it,” Trump said in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as he traveled back from the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Canada. “I think President Xi [Jinping] will ultimately approve it.”
Trump has already extended the TikTok deadline twice since taking office. The law, passed by large bipartisan majorities in Congress last year, originally gave the platform until Jan. 19 to divest from ByteDance or face a ban on U.S. networks and app stores.
After the Supreme Court upheld the divest-or-ban law just days before it was set to take effect, the app briefly went dark in the U.S.
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