Trump says would be open to Musk buying TikTok

AFP | Washington

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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be open to tech billionaire Elon Musk -- the owner of social media platform X -- buying Chinese-owned app TikTok.

“I would be if he wanted to buy it,” Trump told reporters when asked if he was open to Musk, world’s richest man and the head of a budget cutting initiative in the new administration, acquiring the video-sharing platform.

TikTok is facing down a US law that ordered the company to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or be banned in the United States.

In one of his first acts in office, Trump ordered a pause on enforcing the law that should have seen TikTok effectively made illegal in the country on Sunday, a day before he took office for a second term.

The executive order directed his attorney general to delay the implementation of the law Musk salute at Trump rally celebrated by extremists online for 75 days.