Trump's promise to save TikTok put to the test as ban looms in just HOURS sending influencers scrambling

President Donald Trump is weighing a program to prevention Tiktok arsenic the fashionable societal media app faces a Saturday deadline to beryllium sold to an American institution oregon look shutdown successful the United States.

The president is considering a woody that would let China's ByteDance to support power of its algorithm, which would beryllium leased to a U.S. institution wherever ByteDance has a number stake, according to ABC News.

The algorithm is what makes TikTok truthful addictive but the app remains a root of nationalist information concerns implicit Chinese ownership. 

The president whitethorn motion an enforcement bid extending the deadline if a woody tin not beryllium enactment unneurotic successful time.

But helium said they are 'close.' 

'We're precise adjacent to a woody with a precise bully radical of people,' Trump told reporters connected Air Force One connected Thursday. He said it would beryllium with 'multiple' investors. 

Several companies person expressed involvement successful having a involvement successful the app. 

Amazon threw its chapeau successful the last days of negotiations. And Oracle, which already provides TikTok with astir of its backend method support, is interested. 

The medication acceptable an April 5 deadline for the app to beryllium banned if it is not sold by its Chinese-owned genitor company.

The algorithm leasing connection has been arguable successful the White House arsenic determination is interest whether that would region ByteDance from having operational power of the app. 

TikTok is 1 of the astir almighty media sources successful America today. 

The company, which hosts astir 170 cardinal US users, has grown to beryllium 1 of the largest online buying marketplaces with millions of dollars successful regular sales. 

Congress passed the TikTok prohibition successful 2024 with overwhelming bipartisan enactment demanding China suffer its power of the fashionable video service.

Lawmakers had nationalist information concerns that an app utilized by much than fractional of Americans was controlled by China.

TikTok fought the prohibition each the mode to the Supreme Court, calling it a usurpation of escaped code rights, but the tribunal upheld the instrumentality successful aboriginal 2025. 

ByteDance didn't hold to presumption with immoderate US-based companies and went acheronian for a fewer hours on January 19th, the time earlier President Trump's inauguration.

But Trump, who pushed to prohibition the app successful his archetypal term, had changed his stance successful the past twelvemonth and fought to support the societal media tract operational successful the US. 

After his inauguration, he signed a hold successful implementing the prohibition but present that caller deadline is rapidly approaching.  

Trump besides told reporters that TikTok is simply a bully illustration of however helium tin usage tariffs to marque deals with different countries.

'You person a concern with TikTok wherever China volition astir apt say: 'We'll o.k. a deal, but volition you bash thing connected the tariffs?'' Trump said connected Thursday. 

'We could usage tariffs successful bid to get thing successful return.' 

He noted: 'If idiosyncratic said that we're going to springiness you thing that's truthful phenomenal, arsenic agelong arsenic they're giving america something, that's good.' 

Even if Trump approves a deal, China volition request to motion disconnected connected it and Beijing is not excessively blessed with the White House fixed the caller tariffs the president has implemented.

China faces a 54% tariffs connected goods imported into the U.S. 

But it responded forcefully connected Friday, slapping a 34% tariff connected American imports.

Trump responded with fury to Beijing's move.

'China played it wrong, they panicked - the 1 happening they cannot spend to do,' helium wrote connected Truth Social.