{"id":239,"date":"2025-08-23T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/?p=239"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:55:55","slug":"president-donald-trump-says-hell-keep-extending-tiktok-shutdown-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/president-donald-trump-says-hell-keep-extending-tiktok-shutdown-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump says he\u2019ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/us-president-donald-trump-to-keep-extending-tiktok-ban-amid-search-for-us-buyer\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company highly overrated<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">WASHINGTON &#8212;\u00a0<\/span>President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company \u201chighly overrated\u201d and said Friday he&#8217;ll keep extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until there&#8217;s a buyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Congress approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/tiktok-letting-go-of-hundreds-of-uk-moderators-for-ai-systems\/\">U.S. ban on TikTok unless<\/a> its parent company, ByteDance, sold its controlling stake. But Trump has so far extended the deadline\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-ban-trump-delay-executive-order-3211a98113615be44cf92b32dca69a8e\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three times<\/a>\u00a0during his second term \u2014 with the next one coming up on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe\u2019re gonna watch the security concerns,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/white-house-tiktok-account-joins-tiktok-as-platforms-us-divest-or-ban-deadline-looms\/\">Trump told reporters,<\/a> but added, \u201cWe have buyers, American-buyers,\u201d and \u201cuntil the complexity of things work out, we just extend a little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The first extension was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban \u2014\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-ban-fire-congressmans-office-wisconsin-a815e6592bea4c028b1c7748491461ed\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved by Congress<\/a>\u00a0and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 took effect. The\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second was in April<\/a>, when White House officials believed they were nearing a deal to spin <a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/tiktok-targets-college-life-with-new-campus-connection-feature\/\">off TikTok<\/a> into a new company with U.S. ownership that fell apart after China backed out following Trump\u2019s tariff announcement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=71045364\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His comments follow the White House starting a TikTok account this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI used TikTok in the campaign,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI\u2019m a fan of TikTok,\u201d he said. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/tiktok-hashtags-best-hashtags-for-more-views-in-2025\/\">My kids like TikTok<\/a>. Young people love TikTok. If we could keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the extensions continue, it appears less and less likely that TikTok will be banned in the U.S. any time soon. The decision to keep TikTok alive through an executive order has received some scrutiny, but the administration has\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tiktok-ban-china-supreme-court-37284ac35241b1822c9f5da7c9d719d2\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not faced a legal challenge in court<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 unlike many of Trump\u2019s other executive orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Americans are even more closely divided on what to do <a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/tiktok-8-smart-ways-to-use-tiktok-hashtags-and-grow-your-audience\/\">about TikTok<\/a> than they were two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A recent\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/03\/25\/fewer-americans-now-support-tiktok-ban-see-the-platform-as-a-national-security-threat-than-in-spring-2023\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a>\u00a0found that about one-third of Americans said they supported a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023. Roughly one-third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage said they weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Among those who said they supported banning the social media platform, about 8 in 10 cited concerns over users\u2019 data security being at risk as a major factor in their decision, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tiktok","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-tiktok","10":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}