Trump Won’t Extend Deadline for TikTok to Arrange U.S. Sale
- Officials had been weighing whether to give TikTok more time
- Trump says TikTok must sell by Sept. 15 or face U.S. ban
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President Donald Trump said he won’t extend his Sept. 15 deadline for ByteDance Ltd. to sell the U.S. operations of its popular TikTok video-sharing app.
“We’ll either close up TikTok in this country for security reasons, or it will be sold,” Trump told reporters Thursday before boarding the presidential aircraft for a campaign trip to Michigan. “There will be no extension of the TikTok deadline.”