President Donald Trump said the United States has found a buyer for Tiktok.
In an interview with Fox News which was broadcast on Sunday, the president said that the buyer was a group of “very rich people” which he would reveal in “about two weeks” – His favorite chronology.
Trump added that he would “probably” need “the approval of China for a sale to move forward, but seemed to be confident that Chinese chief Xi Jinping would support him.
Trump has intervened three times so far to extend a deadline for the Chinese owner of Tiktok, Bytedance, To find a new buyer Or stop effectively to operate in the United States.
A decree of June 19 extended the deadline until September 17.
In a statement at the time, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration wanted to ensure that American users would continue to be able to access the application.
“As he said on several occasions, President Trump does not want Tiktok to darken,” she said. “This extension will last 90 days, which the administration will pass to work to ensure that this transaction is concluded so that the American people can continue to use Tiktok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure.”
Tiktok missed its original deadline on January 19 and Briefly closes for millions of Americans Before Trump intervened.
“Sorry, Tiktok is not available at the moment”, a message on the application has read for affected users. “A law prohibiting Tiktok has been promulgated in the United States. Unfortunately, this means that you cannot use Tiktok at the moment.”
A number of high -level figures have previously expressed his interest By buying the platform, including the star of “Shark Tank” Kevin O’Leary and the former secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.
Trump also said that he would support his formerly wacky ally, Elon Musk, if he wanted to buy the application.
Musk said in January that he was “against a ban on Tiktok for a long time”, adding that he believed that “goes against freedom of expression”. However, Tesla’s CEO told Welt Economic Summit later this month that he had not made an offer for the application.
“I have no plan for what I would do if I had Tiktok,” he added.