We knew it was coming; TikTok nonetheless is not banned — for now.
President Donald Trump mentioned he signed an govt order on Thursday extending TikTok’s deadline till Sept. 17.
“I’ve simply signed the Govt Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days,” Trump wrote in a publish on his social media platform Reality Social on Thursday. The manager order is but to seem on the Federal Register.
For these of you protecting rating at house, that is the third time Trump has prolonged the deadline for TikTok.
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“We’re grateful for President Trump’s management and assist in guaranteeing that TikTok continues to be obtainable for greater than 170 million American customers and seven.5 million U.S. companies that depend on the platform as we proceed to work with Vice President Vance’s Workplace,” reads a press release issued by TikTok on Thursday.
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We now have entry to the app within the U.S. via Sept. 17, at which era it seems like there are three choices: Trump extends the deadline as soon as once more, TikTok really will get banned within the U.S., or TikTok divests from its Chinese language dad or mum firm, ByteDance.
It is not solely stunning that Trump would prolong TikTok’s deadline; on June 18, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt previewed Trump’s plans to delay TikTok’s ban in a press release to CNN. In a Might interview with Kristen Welker from NBC’s Meet the Press that aired shortly after Trump introduced the second TikTok ban extension, he mentioned he’d contemplate delaying the TikTok ban for a 3rd time if a deal is not struck earlier than the deadline.
“Maybe I should not say this, however I’ve just a little heat spot in my coronary heart for TikTok,” Trump mentioned.
This comes after the president delayed the TikTok ban in January and once more in April, throughout which the U.S. and China battled it out over commerce and tariffs.
