Trump Suggests Elon Musk Buy TikTok With Government Partnership

With TikTok now back online in the United States and the new president Donald Trump having given it a 75-day reprieve ahead of a potential future ban, all eyes are on what happens next.

One potential workaround for the issue is to see TikTok sold to a US-based company rather than the Chinese-owned ByteDance.

One potential new owner of TikTok is Elon Musk, the current owner of X and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. There has been a suggestion that Musk may be a safer pair of hands for a service that was briefly banned in the United States this past weekend.

According to a MacRumors report, Trump is all for Musk getting involved.

“I would be, if he wanted to buy it, yes,” Trump told reporters at a White House event announcing a new AI infrastructure private sector partnership, where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son were in attendance. The comments came just days after TikTok briefly went offline in the United States following Supreme Court action.

TikTok currently has a cool 170 million users in the United States. One other potential way to remove the ByteDance issue could be some sort of joint venture between a private company and the US government, something else Trump would be willing to ratify.

“They’ll have something that’s actually more valuable because they have the ultimate partner,” Trump reportedly said.

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