Ledger · First term · № 145
TikTok sold by September 15 'or it's out of business'
Broken“[paraphrase] I set a date of around Sept. 15, at which point it's going to be out of business in the United States.”
- Promised
- , Remarks to reporters at the White House, followed by the August 6, 2020 executive order setting a 45-day clock
- Stated deadline
- “around September 15 / 45 days” → September 15, 2020
- Overdue by
- 6 years as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 3 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- First term
What happened
September 15, 2020 passed with no completed sale. Trump gave preliminary blessing on September 19 to an Oracle/Walmart 'TikTok Global' structure and Commerce postponed the app-store ban by a week. A federal judge enjoined the ban on September 27, 2020, and a second injunction followed on December 7. The deal was never consummated and TikTok kept operating — a pattern that repeated with serial extensions in his second term.