Overview

• Jack Advent, the president’s former social media producer nicknamed “TikTok Jack,” urged appointing Barron Trump and other young Americans to a TikTok board to keep the platform appealing to younger users.
• Barron Trump, 19, recently moved back into the White House while attending classes at NYU’s Washington, D.C., campus and has not commented on the proposal.
• President Trump returned to TikTok with a video saying he “saved” the app after signing an executive order clearing a transfer of its U.S. operations to an American-led investor group.
• Public descriptions of the framework say U.S. investors would receive licensed access to TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, with about 65% U.S. ownership and ByteDance holding less than 20%.
• Trump named Oracle’s Larry Ellison as the prospective lead investor and cited Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell as future shareholders, while Vice President J.D. Vance referenced a $14 billion valuation for the U.S. venture.