Trump repeats demand for piece of TikTok sale deal as September 15 deadline approaches

San Francisco: President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his demand for a piece of the action from any sale of TikTok’s US operations for forcing such a deal.

TikTok has been at the centre of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance—effectively compelling a sale of the app to a US company.

“Well, I told them that they have until September 15th to make a deal; after that, we close it up in this country,” Trump told journalists.

“And I said that the United States has to be compensated—well compensated—because we are the ones that are making it possible, and so we should be compensated.”