- Trump considers Tiktok as the key to the vote of young people.
- PRICE ROW STABORTE The Tiktok Potential Agreement based in the United States.
- The legal debate is developing on the authority of Trump to delay.
US President Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for June 19 for China based on Tiktok’s American assets, the short video application used by 170 million Americans, if no agreement had been concluded by then.
“I would be … I would like to see him done,” Trump told the NBC News Program “Meet the press with Kristen Welker” in an interview recorded on Friday at the Mar-A-Lago estate in Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, which is broadcast on Sunday in the United States.
Trump said he had a “sweet spot” for the application after helping him win young voters during the 2024 presidential election, adding: “Tiktok is – it’s very interesting, but it will be protected”.
Trump has already granted twice a stay of the application of a prohibition by Tiktok mandated by the Congress which was initially taking effect in January.
An agreement had been in preparation that would turn Tiktok American operations in a new company based in the United States and belonging to the majority and operated by American investors, but it was suspended after China said it would not approve it after Trump’s steep prices announcements on Chinese products.
Democratic senators argue that Trump has no legal power to extend the deadline and suggest that the agreement that had been studying would not meet legal requirements.
A source close to American investors by Bytedance said last month that work on the potential agreement continued before the deadline of June 19, but the White House and Beijing should first resolve the tariff dispute.
Trump said NBC News That China wanted to reach an agreement, citing the impact that the 145% prices on Chinese products had on its economy.
He said he would not drop the prices to bring Beijing to the negotiating table, but could possibly lower them as part of a broader agreement.
“At one point, I’m going to lower them because otherwise you could never do business with them. And they want to do business,” he said.
The law obliged Tiktok to stop working by January 19 unless Bytedance ended a deactivation of the American assets of the application. Trump began his second term as president on January 20 and chose not to apply it. He first extended the deadline in early April, then again last month to June 19.
