Donald Trump said he might give 75 more days before banning TikTok in the US if the app isn’t sold to an American company by June 19.
While talking to Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Donald Trump said, “I want to see it happen. I have a soft corner for TikTok because I won over young people by 36 points… and I focused on TikTok.
The Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which had support from both major parties, was passed in 2023. It banned TikTok in the U.S. on January 19, 2025, due to national security and privacy concerns. After becoming president, Donald Trump gave TikTok a 75-day extension, and did it again in April.
Trump was trying to make a deal to separate TikTok’s U.S. branch into its own company, owned and run by American investors. But the deal was paused after China said it wouldn’t approve it, especially with tensions growing over Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs.
According to a Reuters report, which quoted a source, ByteDance’s U.S. investors are still working on the TikTok deal. However, the deal can only happen if the U.S. and China settle their disagreements.
Trump Discusses TikTok Ban and Tariffs on China
In the same interview, Trump said he was open to reducing tariffs on Chinese products. He admitted that the current high tariffs have nearly stopped trade between the two biggest economies in the world.
The Trump administration has placed tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods, and China has responded with tariffs of 125%. Trump said he wouldn’t lower the tariffs just to get China to negotiate, but he might reduce them later as part of a bigger deal.
“At some point, I’ll lower them because you can’t do business with them otherwise. And they really want to do business,” Trump added.