Trump says open to Musk or Ellison buying TikTok

President Donald Trump said he would be open to his friends Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok.

“Larry, let’s negotiate in front of the media,” Trump said during a press conference with Oracle co-founder Masa Son, CEO of SoftBank, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, to announce a $500 billion investment. dollars in artificial intelligence infrastructure. “What I think I would say to someone is: Buy it and give half of it to the United States of America. Half, and we’ll give you the permit. And they will have a formidable partner, the United States.”

“That sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President,” Ellison said.

TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance still has other offers on the table, including from billionaire Frank McCourt’s Liberty Project and now, apparently, YouTube creator MrBeast – whose investor group receives legal advice from a team that includes the brother of Trump’s attorney general. take.

As he left the briefing, a reporter asked Trump if he had TikTok on his phone. “No, but I think I could put it here,” Trump replied. “I think I’ll get it now.”