Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began
again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : TikTok Ban Extension Reportedly Coming Again: POTUS Trump to Give It More Time After June 19 James Hale / Tubefilter : Have you heard? The Padres embrace egirls, $100K Beast Games tours, and a Disney fail Jim Morley / NewsMax.com : Trump to Extend TikTok Deadline Again Yahoo Finance : Trump planning to extend TikTok ban deadline: Reports Emily Goodin / Daily Mail : Trump saves TikTok for a THIRD time as he sends his A-team to China trade deal talks in London Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Trump reportedly plans to extend the pause on the TikTok ban yet again Ashley King / Digital Music News : Trump Preparing to Extend TikTok Ban Deadline for a Third Time, Insiders Reveal Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information : Trump Plans to Extend TikTok Deadline For Third Time Juli Clover / MacRumors : TikTok Getting Yet Another Ban Delay as Trump Fails to Reach Deal With China Eddie Pan / TipRanks Financial : Trump Eyes Third TikTok Extension ahead of June 19 Deadline Charles Gasparino / New York Post : Why TikTok will likely get another lifeline as sell-or-ban deadline looms The Free Press : A TikTok Ban Is the Law of the Land. Time to Enforce It, Mr. President. Charles Gasparino / New York Post : Trump poised to extend TikTok ban deadline - for third time - as US, China meet for trade talks: source Bluesky: Gregg Nunziata / @greggnunziata : I spoke with the WSJ about the president's ongoing refusal to do his constitutional duty to enforce the TikTok ban, a law passed by Congress, signed by a president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. — www.wsj.com/politics/pol... Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : The law only allowed one extension under specific circumstances but we've since learned obeying laws are more like recommendations than rules with this administration. — I'll be surprised if TikTok ever gets sold or banned at this rate. — https://www.wsj.com/... [image] X: Sean Gibson / @seangibson_ : @CGasparino ... So everything trumps does is just 90 day extensions. Gregg Nunziata / @greggnunziata : I spoke with the WSJ about the president's ongoing refusal to do his constitutional duty and enforce the “TikTok ban”, a law passed by Congress, signed by a president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. https://www.wsj.com/... Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield : It's easy to forget the laws ignored, but the TikTok ban is still the law and Trump has failed to execute it. Charles C. W. Cooke / @charlescwcooke : There is no authority in the statute for this action. It is invented from whole cloth. The president took an oath to execute the law, and he is violating it by refusing to do so. Andrew Egger / @eggerdc : Welcome to America, where everything is made up and the laws don't matter Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino : The Act permits one 90-day extension on condition the president make certifications to Congress. We are on our 3rd extension and no certifications have been made. Glad we blew a big hole in the First Amendment to address this “urgent” national security issue. Sara Morrison / @saramorrison : it's not the people didn't notice, it's that they think the law is bad and they like TikTok and don't want it to go away, so they're fine with this. When the government refuses to enforce a law that they do like and need, they'll be outraged and it will be too late. Congressman Brad Sherman / @bradsherman : This is clearly illegal. The statute allows the president to grant only one 90-day extension. However, the owners of TikTok have announced that they are purchasing $300 million worth of Trump Coin, which Trump creates out of thin air at no cost. We've learned that nothing is illegal if Trump personally stands to gain several hundred million dollars from it. Mark Witzke / @mkwitzke : In August 2020, Trump issued an EO order for TikTok divest itself of its US operations in 90 days or shut down. In 2024 congress wrote PAFACA to ban the app. It is now June 2025... starting to think TikTok might actually survive Chris Duncan / @chrisduncania : The idea that protecting TikTok revenue is a material lever in the trade talks is for the birds, it's tiny in comparison to what is on the table. Ironically it's actually a more useful influence tool for China now the trade war is on than it was when it was originally banned. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : To state the obvious, Trump is just gonna keep “extending” this into perpetuity. TikTok's rope-a-dope strategy worked. Damon Linker / @damonlinker : From now on, laws passed by Congress & signed into law by a sitting POTUS (and given a 9-0 pass by SCOTUS) will be held in abeyance by the successor POTUS if he really doesn't want it going into effect. (The gears of self-government in this country are grinding.) Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino : Btw — The Chinese are buying our land, their companies list on our exchanges, our elite colleges educate the CCP brass. I can go on and on. For the record, I'm no fan of @tiktok_us but if we're really worried about the Chinese surveillance state, isn't TikTok really small Will Creeley / @willatfire : Shot: An unconstitutional ban on an entire platform upheld in a rushed, flimsy Supreme Court decision ... Chaser: ... only to be lawlessly ignored by the President, a failure somehow excused by Congress. This is ridiculous. Marc Short / @marctshort : Every time Trump moves the goal posts on a fake TikTok “deadline,” he signals weakness to the CCP. The President must follow the law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. If ByteDance won't divest, ban the app. The longer we wait, the more data they steal. @thefp : “If he cannot find an American buyer for the social media platform in three weeks, then he has no choice,” our editors write. “He has to ban TikTok. This is not a discussion. It's the law.” Read our editor's editorial on the necessity of a TikTok ban. Rick Esenberg / @rickesenberg : This is an abdication of presidential responsibility. The law says there must be divestment. It was unanimously held. Trump's job is to enforce the law. It doesn't matter what his reason for not doing so is. It's not his call. Mike Fox / @foxmike90 : Fully recognizing that this isn't Trump's motivation, but the Supreme Court is the final arbiter on what's unconstitutional— not what's constitutional. The President has an independent duty not to enforce unconstitutional laws. Therefore, he's bound not to enforce the TikTok Ban. Derek T. Muller / @derektmuller : Congress does its job, works feverishly to overcome the filibuster, deliberates with strong bipartisan majorities on a matter of national security interest, tailors the law to survive First Amendment scrutiny with unanimous support at the Supreme Court. Then.... Marc Short / @marctshort : Congress passed the law. The Supreme Court upheld it 9-0. If ByteDance doesn't divest, TikTok must be banned. Failing to act is a gift to the CCP. [image] David French / @davidafrench : This is blatantly illegal. Open defiance of the law to keep a CCP data collection app on millions upon millions of American phones. There's nothing America First about that. Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino : ...One caveat is that if Trump sees a strategic advantage in crafting a deal by letting it go dark, and that could happen, said a Wall Street exec who was working on the deal to move it into US hands. White House spox had no immediate comment. 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Context & Ripple Effects
The planned June move follows an administration pattern of delaying enforcement: Trump first proposed a delay around the January transition and later authorized another 75-day period for a deal to gain approvals. The underlying divest-or-ban framework remained consequential after a federal appeals court upheld Congress's authority to act over US interests.
This report adds a key constraint to that sequence: ByteDance's ability to complete a sale is not solely a US buyer-and-seller question, because Chinese approval is reportedly being held until broader trade talks begin.
First-order effects
- A further extension would keep TikTok available in the US beyond June 19 while relieving ByteDance and prospective counterparties of an immediate divestment deadline.
- TikTok ownership negotiations become directly contingent on US-China trade engagement, rather than on commercial terms and US approvals alone.
Second-order effects
- Potential buyers and financing partners are likely to delay final commitments while the timetable and the Chinese approval path remain unresolved.
- The White House gains room to use the app's ownership outcome alongside trade negotiations, while ByteDance retains operating continuity without resolving its US structure.
Third-order effects
- If repeated extensions persist, a congressionally mandated platform remedy could function increasingly as an executive bargaining instrument, creating uncertainty over when statutory deadlines will be enforced.
- The case points to cross-border consumer platforms being governed simultaneously by domestic security rules and bilateral economic negotiations, which can make ownership outcomes less predictable for companies and investors.
The trend: TikTok is becoming a prominent example of platform ownership disputes being folded into broader US-China economic bargaining.