The TikTok app logo appears in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020. Kiichiro Sato/AP
Kiichiro Sato/AP
President Trump said he will once again give the short video app TikTok a reprieve, five months after the start date of a federal law banning it in the U.S. unless it splits with its Beijing-based owner, ByteDance.
“We’ll be extending it. We’re going to extend it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “We’re going to probably make a deal – I think we’ll need China’s blessing on it.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Trump would sign