President says he has a buyer for popular app

President Donald Trump said he had a buyer for Tiktok, the video sharing application that had been prohibited in the United States in the mid-national security allegations.

In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that he had a group of “very rich people” ready to acquire the platform. “I’m going to tell you in about two weeks,” he said.

A sale would need the approval of the Chinese government, but Trump told Fox that he thought that President Xi Jinping “will probably do it.”

This month, Trump delayed the third time the application of a law forcing the sale of Tiktok.

The last extension requires that the parent company Bytedance will conclude an agreement to sell the platform by September 17.

The BBC contacted Tiktok to comment.

A previous agreement to sell Tiktok to an American buyer collapsed in April, when the White House clashed with China on Trump’s prices.

It is not clear if the current buyer says that Trump says that he aligned is the same as the one waiting in the wings three months ago.

The US Congress adopted a law obliging the sale of Tiktok in April of last year, the citing legislators fears that the application or his parent company will put the data of American users to the Chinese government, which Tiktok denied.

Trump had criticized the application during his first mandate, but came to see him as a factor in his electoral victory in 2024 and now supports his continuous use in the United States.

The law had to take effect on January 19, but Trump has repeatedly delayed its application through executive actions, movements which have aroused criticism to cancel the legislators of the Congress.

Tiktok challenged the constitutionality of the law, but lost its appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.