President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he mentioned Sunday that he’s prepared to do it once more.
Axios reports that in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump mentioned that if a deal isn’t made to promote TikTok’s U.S. operations to American homeowners earlier than the present June 19 deadline, he would grant the corporate one other extension.
“Maybe I shouldn’t say this, however I’ve somewhat heat spot in my coronary heart for TikTok,” he mentioned.
Congress handed a legislation final yr banning TikTok if its father or mother firm ByteDance didn’t promote the short-form video app, and TikTok briefly disappeared when the ban took effect in January. Trump then declared that he would delay the ban for 90 days and urged that he’d wish to see a three way partnership with U.S. possession.
When the subsequent deadline rolled round in April, Trump gave the corporate one other 75-day extension, noting that the Chinese government (which should approve the deal) was “not very glad about our Reciprocal Tariffs.”
