Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days

President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok’s genitor institution ByteDance to merchantability the abbreviated signifier video app to an American owner.

On Thursday, Trump signed an enforcement bid granting a 3rd hold for the Chinese institution to merchantability its video level truthful it tin proceed to run successful the country.

“I’ve conscionable signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days (September 17, 2025). Thank you for your attraction to this matter!” Trump said connected Truth Social.

While aboard Air Force One connected Wednesday morning, Trump said helium believed Chinese President Xi Jinping would beryllium amenable toward a woody selling the wildly fashionable app. Trump said helium believed Xi would person to motion disconnected connected a woody if a purchaser comes forward. ByteDance is based successful Beijing.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said successful a connection that the medication wanted to guarantee Americans could proceed to entree TikTok.

“As helium has said galore times, President Trump does not privation TikTok to spell dark. This hold volition past 90 days, which the Administration volition walk moving to guarantee this woody is closed truthful that the American radical tin proceed to usage TikTok with the assurance that their information is harmless and secure,” Leavitt said.

TikTok has 170 cardinal users successful the United States and enactment for a prohibition has declined, according to Pew Research. A instrumentality banning TikTok initially passed nether the Biden Administration implicit nationalist information concerns, which led the app to briefly spell offline up of Trump’s inauguration earlier this year.

However, erstwhile Trump signaled helium planned to support the app moving successful the U.S., TikTok resumed functioning.

TikTok has denied that it posed immoderate information concerns to the United States and said American information is not stored successful China. After the TikTok prohibition passed past year, American users began flocking to Chinese societal media app RedNote claiming they were indifferent to China accessing their data. Since TikTok was fixed an hold successful the United States, it appears users person returned to the level and are utilizing RedNote less.

Once successful office, Trump signed an hold of the deadline to merchantability the app, giving ByteDance 75 days to find a buyer. That hold ended connected April 5. Ahead of the April 5 deadline, immoderate imaginable TikTok suitors expressed involvement successful purchasing the app. Amazon made a last-minute bid to bargain TIkTok. Others who expressed involvement included Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who joined billionaire capitalist Frank McCourt’s bid; artificial quality hunt motor startup Perplexity AI; and Steven Mnuchin, treasury caput successful the archetypal Trump administration.

Top Trump officials were assured the app would merchantability but aft sweeping tariffs were placed connected China, nary woody was made. Trump past gave the app different 90 days, which was acceptable to expire connected Thursday.

Under the law, ByteDance indispensable merchantability TikTok to a U.S.-based buyer. ByteDance antecedently said it would not merchantability TikTok and has been quiescent connected whether it has decided to marque a deal.

A spokesperson for TikTok did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The presumption to support TikTok successful the United States is an astir look from Trump’s archetypal term, during which helium signed an enforcement bid banning it. That prohibition was aboriginal overturned by the courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Biden epoch instrumentality banning the app unless it is sold to an American owner.