Trump says in conversation to buy Microsoft Ticketkok
US President Donald Trump has said that Microsoft is discussing to acquire Tiktok and would like to see “Boli War” on the sale of social media apps.
When asked by reporters whether the American tech veterans were preparing a bid, Trump replied: “I would say yes” – before adding it to many companies “Tiktok was very interested”.
Both Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden have been trying for years to force the Chinese -origin company of Tikok, to sell their American operations on national security basis.
This comes when Trump signed an executive order last week Reverse a biden administration ban On tiktok In short, the app took offline For its 170 meter users in the United States.
Despite providing a 75-day recurrence to Tikok from the ban, Trump was the first President to pressurize the bidance to sell his app.
In August 2020, Bidens approached Microsoft as a potential buyer – something that was later “described as” by the US company’s chief executive “described”The most strange thing,
Later, Tikokok chose rival Oracle as a potential partner – although the deal never happened.
Trump has earlier stated that he was discussing with several parties about buying Tiktok and expects to decide on the future of the app within the next 30 days.
A spokesperson of Microsoft said that the company had “nothing to share at this time”. The BBC has also reached Tiktok for comment.
Earlier on Monday, the US President addressed a gathering of Republican politicians in Florida and talked about the proposed sale of Tiktok.
“We will see what happens. We are going to bid many people on it,” he said.
“If we can save all that voice and all jobs, and China will not include, we do not want to include China, but we will see what happens,” he said.
The previous names associated with the purchase of tickets include billionaire Frank McCourt and Canadian businessman Kevin O’Lery – A Celebrity Investor on the shark tank, the American version of Dragan’s DEN.
The largest YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson – aka MRbeast – – has also claimed that he is in the race when many investors approached him after contact Used to give
