{"id":9752,"date":"2025-06-29T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:06:42","slug":"trump-says-hes-found-a-buyer-for-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9752","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019s found a buyer for TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of \u201cvery wealthy people\u201d is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,\u201d Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday morning. \u201cI think I\u2019ll need probably China\u2019s approval. I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump declined to share more details about the buyers, saying only that he would reveal their identities in two weeks (apparently his favorite unit of time).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has repeatedly delayed a bill forcing owner ByteDance to sell the app or see it banned in the United States. In January, he said his \u201cinitial thought\u201d was to create \u201ca joint venture between the current owners and\/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s also said he was open to allies Larry Ellison or Elon Musk buying the app, although Musk seems like a less likely candidate now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of \u201cvery wealthy people\u201d is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump. \u201cWe have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,\u201d Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday morning. \u201cI think I\u2019ll need probably China\u2019s approval. I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it.\u201d Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2028,1025,544,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-9752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-buyer","9":"tag-hes","10":"tag-tiktok","11":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}