He previously floated a joint venture, saying that the US should be entitled to half of the app.

Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

YouTuber MrBeast also said in an X post on January 13, "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so ... and Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska wrote in a joint statement on Sunday that there is "no legal basis ...

Without US approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval ... with the law by Sunday or potentially face hefty fines. US Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, took a strong stand for ...

Tik Tok CEO Shou Zi Chew, attended Trump's inauguration ... "Let me make myself clear: I don't celebrate rapists. So no, I'm not going to the inauguration," Ocasio-Cortez said.

His tune changed, to put it mildly. After briefly meeting with Jeff Yass, a billionaire American investor in the app (and major Republican donor), in March 2024, and himself joining TikTok in June ...