Trump says he’s open to Musk or Ellison shopping for TikTok

President Donald Trump says he’d be open to his buddies Elon Musk or Larry Ellison shopping for TikTok.

“Larry, let’s negotiate in entrance of the media,” Trump stated at a press convention with the Oracle co-founder, SoftBank CEO Masa Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to announce a $500 billion synthetic intelligence infrastructure funding. “What I’m fascinated about saying to any person is, purchase it, and provides half to america of America. Half, and we’ll provide the allow. And so they’ll have a terrific associate, america.”

“Seems like a superb deal to me, Mr. President,” Ellison stated.

TikTok’s China-based guardian firm ByteDance nonetheless has different affords on the desk, together with from billionaire Frank McCourt’s Venture Liberty and now, apparently, from YouTube creator MrBeast — whose investor group is receiving authorized counsel from a group that features the brother of Trump’s legal professional basic choose.

As he was leaving the briefing, a reporter requested Trump if he has TikTok on his cellphone. “No, however I feel I’d put it there,” Trump responded. “I feel I’ll get it proper now.”