After TikTok went dark for users in the US in January, an executive order signed by newly sworn-in President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve from the law requiring ByteDance to sell to an owner outside China in order to remain accessible to US users. That executive order expires on April 5, but Trump has told Reuters that he expects a deal on the app’s sale to come before that deadline.
During an interview aboard Air Force One, Trump indicated that the app had several interested buyers. A law passed in 2024 required the short-form video app to sell to an owner outside of China by January 19 or face a ban for the 170 million users in the US. An executive order signed on January 20 gave the company until April 5 to meet those requirements.
