Trump says Oracle could ‘handle’ owning TikTok

President Donald Trump said late Tuesday that he would support Oracle buying TikTok, the Chinese-owned viral video app that his administration says must to be sold in the next few weeks.

In comments to reporters at an event in Arizona, Trump called Oracle a “great company” and said the firm, which specializes in enterprise software, could successfully run TikTok.

“I think that Oracle would be certainly somebody that could handle it,” he said.

Trump declined to say whether he believed Oracle was a better option to take over the app than Microsoft, the software giant that has also talked with ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, about buying the app.