Overview

• President Trump’s executive order pushes the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to September 17, 2025, following January and April extensions.
• The reprieve stalls enforcement of a 2024 law that would bar TikTok unless its Chinese parent divests its US assets.
• Law professors and some Republican senators say the president’s repeated delays exceed the law’s one-time extension provision.
• TikTok thanked the administration and said it remains in talks with Vice President JD Vance’s office on a potential sale.
• Any transaction still requires Beijing’s approval and faces complications from US-China trade tensions and technology export rules.