President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that states a sale of TikTok’s US operations being negotiated by the White House will satisfy standards established in a 2024 law, a White House source familiar with the issue said.
Earlier this week, the White House announced Trump will certify that a sale of TikTok’s US business from Chinese parent ByteDance will satisfy conditions in a Congress-approved law prohibiting the short video app if its Chinese parent is terminated.
Donald Trump credited TikTok, with 170 million US users, with his re-election victory last year and has 15 million followers on his own account.
Trump to sign TikTok executive order Thursday, source indicates
The White House also created an official TikTok account last month.
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Donald Trump has postponed applying the law until mid-December while negotiating to get TikTok’s US assets out of the international platform, arrange American investors and make sure that the new owner counts as a full divestiture required under the 2024 law.
An additional extension is anticipated in the executive order on Thursday.
