The company was nearing its June 19 deadline.
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TikTok lives on.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that will extend the deadline for the sale of TikTok for another 90 days.
“I’ve just signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days (September 17, 2025),” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on June 19.
Trump did not give any further comment on the order, according to The Epoch Times.
ByteDance, a Chinese company with connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was approaching a June 19 deadline to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations and assets under a national security law that was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year.
According to The Times, Trump’s post included the text of the executive order, which directed the Justice Department not to take any action to apply laws against TikTok or ByteDance over the following three months.
What all this means is that if the President doesn’t provide a new extension, TikTok would go dark in the United States in about mid-September. Trump had already twice granted a reprieve from enforcement of a law regarding TikTok that was supposed to take effect in January.
Last month the President said that he would extend the June 19 deadline, noting that TikTok helped him garner younger voters during the 2024 election. On June 17, he told reporters on Air Force One that he expected to again extend the deadline.
“Probably, yeah,” Trump told reporters on June 17 regarding extending the deadline. “Probably have to get China approval, but I think we’ll get it.
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