Trump Extends TikTok Deadline For Third Time (cnbc.com) 54
President Trump will extend the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. operations by another 90 days, marking the third extension since taking office. The extension aims to prevent a TikTok ban while negotiations with potential buyers like Oracle and Project Liberty continue. CNBC reports: "President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure."
ByteDance was nearing the deadline of June 19, to sell TikTok's U.S. operations in order to satisfy a national security law that the Supreme Court upheld just a few days before Trump's second presidential inauguration. Under the law, app store operators like Apple and Google and internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok. ByteDance originally faced a Jan. 19 deadline to comply with the national security law, but Trump signed an executive order when he first took office that pushed the deadline to April 5. Trump extended the deadline for the second time a day before that April mark. Trump told NBC News in May that he would extend the TikTok deadline again if no deal was reached, and he reiterated his plans on Thursday.
ByteDance was nearing the deadline of June 19, to sell TikTok's U.S. operations in order to satisfy a national security law that the Supreme Court upheld just a few days before Trump's second presidential inauguration. Under the law, app store operators like Apple and Google and internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok. ByteDance originally faced a Jan. 19 deadline to comply with the national security law, but Trump signed an executive order when he first took office that pushed the deadline to April 5. Trump extended the deadline for the second time a day before that April mark. Trump told NBC News in May that he would extend the TikTok deadline again if no deal was reached, and he reiterated his plans on Thursday.
Man of his word (Score:3)
He'll finally ban Tiktok the same day that Elon delivers Fully Self Driving & the next-gen hardcore ICE smackdown Roadster
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Yep. Right after Infrastructure Week.
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He's still waiting for the offer that funnels profit to him directly.
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Reminds me of those bullies who draw a line in the sand and say "Cross this line!
When you *do* cross the line they draw another and say "Okay, cross *this* line!
When you do -- they just keep on drawing lines and never actually carry out their threats.
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there's a lot of that in politics especially when it comes to war. perhaps that can be a good thing?
but I recall Obama laying down a series of "red lines" in the Syrian civil war that were crossed without repercussions so Trump is not alone
Re: Man of his word (Score:3)
Trump is a man of his word. And his word is TACO.
Re:Man of his word (Score:4, Insightful)
He'll ban them the instant he stops getting paid not to.
This is extortion, plain and simple.
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He'll ban them the instant he stops getting paid not to.
This is extortion, plain and simple.
This Administration prefers the word, "Tuesday." :-)
(Okay, any day that ends in "y".)
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Why would Trump ban them? They offered a helping hand in spreading misinformation and bullshit that got him elected.
Re: Man of his word (Score:1)
Hungry? Eat a TACO (Score:4, Funny)
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It is Tuesday, chicken TACOs for everyone.
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Re: Hungry? Eat a TACO (Score:2)
Re:Hungry? Eat a TACO (Score:4, Interesting)
Back in 2016 I was threatened with a "taco truck on every corner" and that threat was a complete lie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
A taco truck near work would be amazing. Hell I will even settle for a tamale lady who sells them from her car.
Re: Hungry? Eat a TACO (Score:2)
Now they call it "mass immigration", because taco trucks polled too well. Because like, it's massive, and that makes it more bad than regular immigrantation because the country is full and we need more babies that don't eat tacos. I like tacos.
- Frito from Idiocracy probably
Oracle? Big Surprise! (Score:2)
Trump really wants his boy Larry to take ownership - that way he doesn't have to worry about getting warrants to gather data since he can just phone a friend to get it.
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Can't wait until TikTok is integrated with NetSuite! The kids will love the convenience of single sign on and combined payroll services with music videos
Love this (Score:3)
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Win win for the spectators either way.
Yup - my popcorn stocks are going through the roof!!
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Yup - my popcorn stocks are going through the roof!!
And my popcorn inventory is disappearing fast!!
Re:Love this (Score:5, Insightful)
I really don't fear the CCP. They're pretty transparent about their goals. Their goal is China first. They put massive investments into infrastructure and high end manufacturing. Don't for a minute think that China only produces cheap garbage. Americans buy the cheapest shit that China sells. If you bought the absolute cheapest domestic products you'd get the same quality.
What I do fear is the current administration who doesn't even hide the fact that favors are for sale. https://thehill.com/homenews/a... [thehill.com]
The head of the military is a drunken former Fox News host who accidentally texts top secret plans to journalists on unsecure devices. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22... [npr.org]
The head of the department of education is an elderly CEO who used to run a wrestling company and doesn't know the different between artificial intelligence and steak sauce. https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com] Bonus for her husband Vince whose legal troubles will likely quietly vanish.
As for the head of the department of health, RFK Jr.
I'll present his own words: I don't want to seem like I'm being evasive, but I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r... [cbsnews.com]
The rest of the cabinet is a rogues gallery of billionaire assholes and other unqualified DEI hires. DEI in this context meaning they were not hired on the basis of being best qualified.
That is the stuff I fear.
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If you bought the absolute cheapest domestic products you'd get the same quality.
Not quite. An insane amount of Chinese imports are not just cheap but also fail to meet minimum quality requirements, fail to provide any meaningful method of claiming warranty or liability. When your Chineseum powered phone charger burns your house down it's your fault for buying something that had a fake UL mark on it. What you're gonna do, sue an Alibaba seller that only existed for 1 week?
The minimum quality of local stuff is significantly higher than that of what is available in China. The minimum qual
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I'm much more concerned about having Twitter divested from Elon Musk and fascism, and having Facebook shut down entirely due to rampant misinformation, scams, and foreign agitator accounts posing as Americans. I normally wouldn't advocate for a service to be closed, but Facebook has been unable to stop that stuff for over a decade now. Can't even sell it off because the next capitalist will be motivated by the same engagement metrics.
He's fishing for bribes (Score:5, Insightful)
To be clear even if you think you don't care you do. All of this crap instills a shitload of uncertainty into the markets and increases the odds of you getting fired from your job.
It also means that when you do get fired it's going to be that much harder maybe impossible to find another job. Certainly nothing comparable to what you have now...
There's a cycle in america. We put a republican in charge, he crashes the economy, we put a democrat in charge, the recovery takes longer than we want thanks to Republican meddling after the midterms, and then we put another Republican in charge... Lather rinse repeat.
The problem is every time we do that cycle we lose a little ground. Our economic system is designed to recover from market collapses by taking it out of our hides and we lose some every time there is one.
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You have to go to failing South American dictatorships put in place by the CIA to find anything even remotely comparable.
Andrew Jackson's presidency is remarkably comparable.
TACO (Score:2)
Wow, what a negotiator (Score:2)
Still waiting on those Chinese favors (Score:3)
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Maybe they'll gift him another Jet that he can't use. Its more likely they'll continue to tell him to fuck off.
Yep. The Chinese looked at the facts and found them to be in their favour. They might have trouble understanding why that does not work for the Dumb one.
Cmdr-InChief-Taco (Score:2)
Will the real Rob please stand up?
That's not what the law says (Score:4, Interesting)
It's interesting that there is a law that say Tick Tock must be divested by a certain date.
And without changing that law in any way, Trump just says we won't enforce it until a date further in the future than what the law actually says.
So the current situation is that Tick Tock is in violation of the law (and has been for the past several months). If I were in their position I would be considering going for some kind of an estoppel order to permanently void the law since it's being (not) enforced on a simply arbitrary basis by an individual's whims of the moment. Does that sound like a law worthy of respect by anyone at all?
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They also pointed out that there is a 5 year enforcement window, which would put enforcement firmly in the next administration. The law went in to effect the day before Trump was sworn in to office.
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So the current situation is that Tick Tock is in violation of the law (and has been for the past several months). If I were in their position I would be considering going for some kind of an estoppel order to permanently void the law since it's being (not) enforced on a simply arbitrary basis by an individual's whims of the moment.
You already said that the law is not being followed. What makes you think another law will solve that problem? There is paper and there is human desire. Human desire is no longer bound by paper. Adding more paper will NOT help in this situation.
That guy just cannot perform (Score:3)
All about show, never about doing anything effective. About the worst kind of leader you can have besides a true believer.
Someone bought (Score:2)
TACO time (Score:1)
Yet another TACO moment (Score:2)
Trump always chickens out, and anything unpopular will be put on hold if there's nothing he personally benefits from.
TACO Man (Score:2)
*sung to the tune of Macho Man by you know who's fav group*
TACO, TACO man
I've got to be a TACO man
I've got to be a TACO, TACO man
I've got to be a TACO! Ow!