TikTok Getting Yet Another Ban Delay as Trump Fails to Reach Deal With China

[MacRumors]

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to extend the looming TikTok ban for yet another 75 days, reports The Wall Street Journal. It will mark the third extension since Trump took office in January.

The second extension that Trump gave TikTok is set to expire on June 19, and there appears to be no progress made toward a deal with China, so TikTok needs a third reprieve to continue operating in the United States.

TikTok was banned in the U.S. after the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act went into law on January 19, but Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice not to enforce the law at the current time.

Since January, Trump has been working to wrest TikTok's operations from Chinese control by establishing U.S. ownership. Trump's team has considered offers from Oracle, Perplexity, and Amazon, along with individuals like Jimmy Donaldson (known as MrBeast), Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary, Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley, and billionaire Frank McCourt.

Trump needs to work with China to get the TikTok deal approved, and China is not cooperating due to ongoing trade tensions created by Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods.

TikTok continues to be available for download as of now. It's not yet clear when the app might see a U.S. takeover, but with continued extensions, it is not in danger of being removed from the App Store.

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[Plutonius]

It doesn't look to me like China cares if TikTok is banned.

 

[BeerDrinkerDan]

I'm sure there will be a deal in "2 weeks"!

-bdd

 

[It’s always something]

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to extend the looming TikTok ban for yet another 75 days, reports The Wall Street Journal. It will mark the third extension since Trump took office in January.

The second extension that Trump gave TikTok is set to expire on June 19, and there appears to be no progress made toward a deal with China, so TikTok needs a third reprieve to continue operating in the United States.

TikTok was banned in the U.S. after the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act went into law on January 19, but Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice not to enforce the law at the current time.

Since January, Trump has been working to wrest TikTok's operations from Chinese control by establishing U.S. ownership. Trump's team has considered offers from Oracle, Perplexity, and Amazon, along with individuals like Jimmy Donaldson (known as MrBeast), Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary, Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley, and billionaire Frank McCourt.

Trump needs to work with China to get the TikTok deal approved, and China is not cooperating due to ongoing trade tensions created by Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods.

TikTok continues to be available for download as of now. It's not yet clear when the app might see a U.S. takeover, but with continued extensions, it is not in danger of being removed from the App Store.

Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.

Article Link: TikTok Getting Yet Another Ban Delay as Trump Fails to Reach Deal With China

More law-breaking, more unconstitutional action by the regime. When will he be impeached?

 

[slb]

All that tough talk and he folds like a lawn chair every time the deadline comes around.

 

[hieranonymous]

The forever-looming TikTok ban is the final boss of edging.

 

[TechWhisperer]

They should just rebrand TikTok as TaCo and call it a day.

 

[bladerunner88]

National Security Threat Ohhh Funnnnnie......😂

 

[goodcow]

Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice not to enforce the law at the current time.

So laws basically don't matter.

 

[DotCom2]

All that tough talk and he folds like a lawn chair every time the deadline comes around.

I think you mean TACO.

 

[WiseAJ]

Yet another illegal extension. America is a huge joke now.

 

[JPack]

This is similar to rare earth minerals exports. China won't allow full export of those minerals. They know they have the U.S. by the balls.

TikTok is similar. It's a powerful tool that Americans need. China is not going to sell the secret sauce that makes it so popular. Otherwise, Americans could turn around, build a better app, and actually use it for disinformation.

 

[JPack]

It doesn't look to me like China cares if TikTok is banned.

Why would China care? Americans banned it once only to come back, hat in hand. Plus, the bulk of ByteDance revenue comes from outside the U.S.

 

[d686546s]

Since January, Trump has been working to wrest TikTok's operations from Chinese control by establishing U.S. ownership. Trump's team has considered offers from Oracle, Perplexity, and Amazon, along with individuals like Jimmy Donaldson (known as MrBeast), Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary, Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley, and billionaire Frank McCourt.

Trump needs to work with China to get the TikTok deal approved, and China is not cooperating due to ongoing trade tensions created by Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods.

Why are they even 'considering' offers of apparently Bytedance isn't?

 

[coolkid93]

China will not sell PERIOD! Lol. They don’t care if it gets banned in the US

 

[DocMultimedia]

It doesn't look to me like China cares if TikTok is banned.

And it doesn't look like 🌮 cares, even thought the Congress considered it a security threat. It seems any foreign student is a much greater threat. Yeesh. Child in Charge.

 

[spartan1967]

As anyone could have guessed with the way Trump has done business with this country, I believe China will never do anything with the US that will make Trump look like he got a deal done with them. This is because to Trump, being associated with a win is more important to him than actually cutting a deal that benefits both countries or even just the US for that matter.

 

[Artemiz]

Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice not to enforce the law at the current time.

So laws basically don't matter.

What’s the point when he’s gonna pardon them anyway? At least this way he’s saving govt resources on the prosecution

 

[Eorlas]

i''m not encouraging the ban, but this guy can't do something and commit to it. thankfully, though, because the things he does do are generally pretty awful ideas.

let's bring in a private billionaire to run government! then they have a falling out

let's tariff this! lets tariff that! let's bring the number down! let's bring it up again!

 

[BootsWalking]

Trump is like the weather - if it's raining, just wait 5 minutes and some more hot air will blow in.

 

[sw1tcher]

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to extend the looming TikTok ban for yet another 75 days, reports The Wall Street Journal. It will mark the third extension since Trump took office in January.

The second extension that Trump gave TikTok is set to expire on June 19, and there appears to be no progress made toward a deal with China, so TikTok needs a third reprieve to continue operating in the United States.

Cue song....

[ . . . ]

Golfing in the mornings, go man go
Eats outs at McDonald's, orange glow
You can best believe that he's a TACO man
Ready to chicken out to anyone he can

Hey!
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey!

TACO, TACO man (TACO man, yeah!)
I've got to be a TACO man
I've got to be a TACO, TACO man, yeah!
I've got to be a TACO! Ow!

 

[sw1tcher]

They should just rebrand TikTok as TaCo and call it a day.

Just add an O to the end.

TikTok-O (pronounced as Tik Taco)

 

[turbineseaplane]

The master deal maker continues to .... get no deals done.

At this point in the day he's probably already having a double bacon burger at the 19th hole.

I can't believe people voted for this total clown.

 

[Stevez67]

Mr. Trump is proving to be a toothless tiger. The head chef of TACO.

 

[jarman92]

Why are they even 'considering' offers of apparently Bytedance isn't?

Because we truly live in the stupidest possible timeline, and the stupidest people on Earth are also the richest/most powerful.