Trump Again Pushes TikTok Sale Deadline With 90-Day Reprieve (3)

June 18, 2025, 7:01 PM UTC

President Donald Trump plans to extend for a third time the deadline for Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. to divest the American operations of TikTok, allowing the social media app to keep running in the US while negotiations proceed.

“We’re going to extend it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “We’re going to probably make a deal.”

Trump’s latest extension would give ByteDance an additional 90 days beyond a June 19 deadline while the administration works on a sale agreement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Tuesday. “As he has said many times, ...

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