White House joins TikTok after delaying enforcement of sale-or-ban law [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2025, 9:05 PM ET


The White House launched a TikTok account on Tuesday amid uncertainty about the app’s future, as another deadline approaches for its parent company, Bytedance, to sell to a US buyer or be banned in the United States.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline of a sale-or-ban law passed under former President Joe Biden’s administration, with the new deadline less than a month away on September 17.

The latest delay in June kept the app accessible for its 170 million American users, despite the legislation that passed last year with bipartisan support over concerns that TikTok’s Chinese ownership poses a US national security risk. And it came as both the United States and China sought leverage in tense trade talks.

TikTok’s ultimate fate in the US remains unclear, but the official White House account is a signal the app could be here to stay.

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