Jun 19, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump extends TikTok sale deadline again

April Rubin

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to push TikTok's sale deadline for the third time this year.

Why it matters: Trump's repeated delays on the ban have begun to tick off some Senate Republicans, more than a year after a bipartisan law was passed out of serious concerns for the app's threats to national security.

ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese-owned parent company, has failed to sell the app to a U.S. buyer as required by the law.
Reuters reported earlier this year that a plan to spin off the app's American operation was put on hold after the U.S. imposed steep tariffs on China. He has dangled a deal as a way to negotiate the tariffs.
Trump announced the expected deadline extension on Truth Social. The new deadline is Sept. 17.

Catch up quick: Trump signed an executive order in January just after taking office extending the app's ban by 75 days, hours after it briefly went dark.

Zoom out: While Trump was a fan of banning TikTok during his first term, he softened on the idea as it's grown massively popular among young people, including his supporters.

A group of House Democrats wrote a letter to Trump earlier this month requesting that he stop extending the deadline.

Go deeper: TikTok ban timeline: Here's where things stand

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