President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the deadline to enforce a ban on TikTok for a fourth time, pushing the period to reach a sale to December — in spite of a U.S. law that required the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok by January of this year.
This extension comes hours after Trump said that his administration had reached a deal with China to sell TikTok. Trump also said he would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week to “confirm everything up.”
“We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it. The kids wanted it so badly. I had parents calling me up,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “They say, ‘If I don’t get it done, they’re in big trouble with their kids.’ I think it’s great. I hate to see value like that thrown out the window.”