Vice President Vance mentioned a TikTok deal could be reached earlier than Saturday’s ban enforcement deadline after President Trump’s closed-door assembly with prime aides to debate potential buyers.
“It’ll come out before the deadline,” Vance mentioned in a Thursday morning interview with Fox Information.
“We’ve got to wait a couple days to continue working on it, to finalize some things, and of course we’re going to let the president announce whatever we ultimately decide,” he added.
ByteDance, the Chinese language firm that owns TikTok, was granted a 75-day extension from the unique Jan. 19 deadline to divest from the favored video-sharing app or face a everlasting ban within the U.S.
Amazon, Perplexity AI, Microsoft and different U.S.-based firms have expressed curiosity in buying TikTok, which touts greater than 170 million month-to-month customers throughout the nation.
Trump mentioned Sunday a TikTok deal could be reached quickly.
“We’re working on TikTok. We have a lot of potential buyers. There’s tremendous interest in TikTok,” Trump instructed reporters on Air Drive One.
“We’re dealing with China also on it because they may have something to do with it. And we’ll see how that goes. But it’s something I think you’re going to have, I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.”
