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\n\tDonald Trump has long presented himself as a master of dealmaking, but in looking to arrange an acquisition of TikTok\u2018s parent company, he has now given himself three deadline extensions. On Thursday, the president announced an executive order once again delaying the enforcement of a law that would ban the video app in the U.S. if it is not sold by China\u2019s ByteDance.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve just signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days (September 17, 2025),\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. \u201cThank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d In a statement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt underscored Trump\u2019s affinity for the app, which he had previously wanted to ban but pledged to save during the 2024 campaign. (He now has 15 million followers on the platform, though his account has not been used since the election.) \u201cAs he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201cThis extension will last 90 days, which the administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe law that Trump\u2019s orders have circumvented, signed by Joe Biden and upheld by the Supreme Court just before Trump\u2019s second term began, is the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a product of concerns from Congress that foreign-owned apps such as TikTok could be used to spy on or politically manipulate Americans. On Jan. 20, his first day in office, Trump ordered the initial delay of a ban after the app briefly went dark \u2014 then, in April, he was forced to approve another 75-day delay because a potential deal to spin off a majority of TikTok to a U.S. company controlled by American investors unraveled when China balked at his tariffs on global trade. Any sale of TikTok by ByteDance is likely impossible without approval from Beijing.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe are grateful for President Trump\u2019s leadership and support in ensuring that TikTok continues to be available for more than 170 million American users and 7.5 million U.S. businesses that rely on the platform as we continue to work with Vice President Vance\u2019s Office,\u201d TikTok said in a statement. The company has repeatedly praised Trump for keeping it operational in the U.S. and maintains that it presents no security risk to the country.<\/p>\n
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\n\tFor now, then, American creators who rely on the platform for their livelihoods \u2014 and the many more who just like to spend hours a day scrolling the app \u2014 have been granted another reprieve. It\u2019s not clear whether the administration is any closer to brokering a deal for TikTok than they were before the last one blew up in April, but it seems Trump will have no problem putting off the ban indefinitely. Unlike many of his other executive orders since returning to the Oval Office, the delays have not been met with challenges in the courts.<\/p>\n
\n\tMeanwhile on Thursday \u2014 the Juneteenth federal holiday \u2014\u00a0Trump criticized The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, writing on Truth Social that the newspaper has \u201cNo Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!\u201d He also lashed out at Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, for not lowering interest rates as he wanted. \u201cHe is truly one of the dumbest, and most destructive, people in Government, and the Fed Board is complicit,\u201d Trump fumed. With the escalation of a Middle East war and an economic slowdown at home, it\u2019s perhaps no wonder that the president is pushing off the TikTok question for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump has long presented himself as a master of dealmaking, but in looking to arrange an acquisition of TikTok\u2018s parent company, he has now given himself three deadline extensions. On Thursday, the president announced an executive order once again delaying the enforcement of a law that would ban the video app in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[163,546,543,545,544,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-8934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ban","9":"tag-days","10":"tag-delays","11":"tag-sale","12":"tag-tiktok","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}