Trump will extend the deadline for Tiktok’s sale for another 90 days

Trump disclosed his executive order on Truth Social Platform Thursday morning.

“He’s been making an extension so that he can get this deal done,” White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt told reporters Thursday. “It’s very popular. He also wants to protect American data and privacy concerns with this app, and he believes we can do both at the same time.”

This is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first was made through his first day’s executive order on January 20th, after the platform was shortened during the national ban. Approved by the Congress Upheld by the US Supreme Court – implemented. The second was April When White House officials believed they were approaching a deal to spinoff Tiktok into a new company, with US ownership that collapsed after China retreated after Trump’s tariff announcement.

It is not clear that Trump could or willing will continue to be extended multiple times as the government continues to negotiate deals with Tiktok, owned by Chinese ordinances. There is no clear legal basis for the expansion, but so far There are no legal challenges to combat them. Trump has attracted over 15 million followers in Tiktok He participated last yearand he believes in the trendsetting platform by helping to gain traction among younger voters. He said in January he has a “warm place in Tiktok.”

Tiktok praised Trump for signing an extension on Thursday.

“We appreciate President Trump’s leadership and support and thank him for continuing to make it available to more than 170 million American users and the 7.5 million American companies relying on the platform as Tiktok continues to work with Vice President Vance’s office,” the company said in a statement.

If extensions continue, the chances of Tiktok being banned in the US soon become less and less. The decision to keep Tiktok alive through the executive order has been under some scrutiny, but Not facing legal challenges in court – Unlike many of Trump’s other executive orders.

Emulcater analyst Jeremy Goldman called the situation in the US in Tiktok “deadline purgatory.”

The whole thing is, “it’s starting to feel less like a clock, more like a looped ringtone. This political groundhog day is beginning to resemble a debt cap drama.

According to Forrester analyst Kelsey Chickering, Tiktok has not stopped moving forward on the platform.

“Tiktok’s actions also show that they are confident in the future as they deployed a new AI video tool at Cannes this week,” Chickering said. “Small players, snapattempting to steal the share during this “uncertain time”, but they are not successful as Tiktok’s next round is not at all uncertain. ”

For now, Tiktok continues to function for 170 million users and tech giants in the US apple, Google and Oracle Trump’s Justice Department was persuaded to continue to offer and support the app on a promise not to use the law to seek potentially sudden fines.

Americans are even more closely divided on what to do with Tiktok than they were two years ago.

recently Pew Research Center Survey It turns out that about a third of Americans said they supported the ban on Tiktok from 50% in March 2023. About a third said they opposed the ban, and similar proportions said they were not sure.

Among those who support the ban on social media platforms, eight out of ten people who are at risk as the main factor in their decisions, their data security is cited.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Email Committee, said the Trump administration has once again “ignoring its own national security findings on risk, flaping the law.”

“The executive order is inevitable for law, but that’s exactly what the president is trying to do,” Warner added.