President Donald Trump Grants TikTok Third 90-Day Reprieve, Extending Deadline to September 2025

US President Donald Trump has issued a new order extending the deadline for ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok to continue its operations in the United States. The 90-day extension pushes the new deadline to September 17, 2025, marking the third time the app deadline has been postponed since Trump took office.

A bipartisan law passed in 2024 under the Joe Biden administration, which initially mandated that ByteDance either sells TikTok to U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban by January 19, 2025.

President Joe Biden’s administration first initiated the move to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns over Chinese access to American user data.

President Trump, however, has continued to delay enforcement of the law. His first extension was granted on January 20, 2025, just one day after taking office, followed by a second in April. These actions have kept TikTok available to its estimated 170 million U.S. users.

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Trumpt's latest move to extent the ban.

The move has drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers, particularly Senator Mark Warner, who accused the US President for disregarding the law. Warner and others point out that the 2024 law allows only one 90-day extension.