Trump Extends TikTok Forced Sale Deadline for Third Time Amid China Tensions

President Trump extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok for a third time, delaying the forced sale as U.S.-China trade tensions escalated with Liberation Day tariffs. The repeated extensions raised questions about executive authority to waive congressionally mandated divestiture deadlines and whether TikTok's fate was being used as a geopolitical bargaining chip.