President Donald Trump says he would be willing to let his friends Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buy TikTok.
“Larry, let's have a conversation in front of the media,” Trump announced at a news conference alongside Oracle co-founder, SoftBank CEO Masa Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure investment“I'm thinking of telling someone to buy it and give half of it to the United States. Half, and we'll give you the permit. “And they will have a great partner, the United States.”
Ellison said, “I think it's a good deal, Mr. President.”
TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance still has other offers on the table, including billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and now, apparently, an offer from YouTube creator MisterBeast — whose investor group is getting legal advice. team consisting of Trump's attorney general's brother chosen,
When he was leaving the briefing, a reporter asked Trump if he had TikTok on his phone. Trump responded, “No, but I think I can put it in there.” “I think I'll get it now.”