President Donald Trump had recently expressed his support in SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so.

Tesla ( TSLA) stock jumped more than 6% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a countrywide ban starting next week — and Musk is reportedly the most likely candidate.

Tesla bull Ross Gerber doubts the effectiveness of Donald Trump's executive order to delay TikTok's federal ban, citing national security laws, as Elon Musk's X emerges as a contender for TikTok's U.S.

Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok. Donaldson has the most subscribers of any user on YouTube— over 340 million—and boasts over 113 million TikTok followers.

I met with the owners of Tiktok, the big owners, it’s worthless if it doesn’t get a permit,” Trump said. “It’s worth like a trillion dollars.”

The CEOs of several of the world’s biggest technology companies are planning to attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration Monday. The leaders of Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla, TikTok and

He previously floated a joint venture, saying that the US should be entitled to half of the app.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist.

Tesla (TSLA) stock jumped 3% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a ...

Trump Says He Is Open to Musk Buying TikTok if Tesla CEO Wants to Do So By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to ...