In a statement made on 17 June, Caroline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary, stated that the United States President ‘ s Trump plan had once again postponed the ban on TikTok in the United States and that an executive order would be signed later in the week to extend the ban for 90 days.
“As the President has repeatedly stressed, he does not want TikTok to shut down its services,” Levitte adds that the Government will continue to promote an agreement with TikTok over a 90-day period to ensure that U.S. users “continue to use TikTok subject to data security.”
This generally expected action will be the third postponement of the TikTok “Sale or Ban” Bill after Trump returns to the White House. The bill, which was passed by Congress in 2024 and signed by former President Biden, requires TikTok Beijing parent company to divest itself of its United States business by by byte, otherwise it will be banned from landing on the United States app store and web hosting platform. The scheduled deadline for entry into force is Thursday, 19 June.
Both party parliamentarians raised national security concerns about TikTok, arguing that byte beats could provide the Chinese Government with United States user data. Byte beats consistently denied the allegations, while Trump diluted those concerns. TikTok has 170 million users in the United States, and is particularly popular with young groups. Trump attributed his increased support among young voters during the 2024 election campaign to the use of TikTok.
The agencies that currently express their intention to acquire are Oracle, the Science and Technology Corporation, the billionaire businessman Frank McCord’s Freedom Plan, and the California Windsor Anderson Holowitz Fund, created by a well-known investor, Mark Anderson.
