Trump Extends TikTok Deadline Again

US President Donald Trump extended the deadline for divesting the US assets of TikTok by 90 more days. Trump signed an executive order to give ByteDance its third extension to sell those assets to a US entity.

“I’ve just signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days, until September 17, 2025. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he said in a Truth Social post, which included a copy of the document. “We are grateful for President Trump’s leadership and support in ensuring that TikTok continues to be available for more than 170 million American users and 7.5 million U.S. businesses that rely on the platform as we continue to work with Vice President JD Vance’s office,” TikTok said in a statement.

After the platform briefly stopped working in January, Trump delayed a proposed ban by 75 days by signing the initial executive order during his first day as President. He granted another reprieve when he signed another executive order in early April. In February, Trump handed off the TikTok matter to Vice President Vance and the since-departed National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.

TikTok unsuccessfully appealed to US legislation passed in 2024 to ban the service unless a local buyer was found, after former President Joe Biden and members of both political parties expressed concern that it posed a national security risk. The US Supreme Court upheld the law banning the app unless it is sold to a US owner. Trump tried unsuccessfully to ban TikTok during his first term but did an about-face when he was running for his second term. He joined the platform in 2024 and credits the social media’s youthful users for helping him win the presidential election in 2024.