Trump Gives TikTok Another 75 Days to Strike a Sale

President Donald Trump is giving TikTok more time to sell its US operations, saying that "tremendous progress" has been made toward a deal and pushing off enforcement of a ban that was set to kick in Saturday. In a Friday afternoon Truth Social post, Trump said that despite that progress, the deal still needs more work, so he's signing an executive order giving TikTok 75 more days, taking the deadline out to June 19. The move prevents the wildly popular video app from potentially going dark in less than a day. Trump went on to say that his administration will continue to work with China and credited the tariffs he enacted earlier this week, calling them "the most powerful economic tool" and "very important" to national security. "We do not want TikTok to 'go dark,'" Trump said in his post. "We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal." Both TikTok and the Chinese government have long opposed a sale of the company's US operations and it remains unclear as to i ... Read full article.