Trump gives a green light to the Tiktok agreement

President Donald Trump signed an executive decree in the White House office which is intended to give to the green light on Thursday so that American investors take a large part in Tiktok. But the details of the proposed agreement have still not been revealed, and there are many hoops to jump before it was finalized.

“It will be operated by the United States,” Trump said on Thursday. “And great respect (sic) for President XI, and I really appreciate that he has approved the agreement. Because to do it properly, we really needed China’s support and China approval. ”

Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping approved the agreement, but that he still needs formal approval from China, according to the Washington Post. And the Wall Street Journal reports that the group of new investors who are supposed to resume Tiktok have not yet been finalized and that legal details have not been postponed.

Who are these new investors? According to Trump on Thursday, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch are among “four or five absolutely world class investors”. Trump recently continued Murdoch for defamation on a Wall Street Journal article on a birthday book designed for Jeffrey Epstein and signed by Trump in 2003.

CNBC reported earlier Thursday than a new entity operated by Oracle, Silver Lake and the MGX investment fund based in Abu Dhabi will control around 45% of Tiktok. Thirty-five percent will be checked by Bytedance investors and new holders, according to the Channel Business. And bytedance will control 19.9%, the limit dictated by the law adopted last year to force Chinese society to yield or to face a total ban in the United States

Trump tried to ban Tiktok during his first mandate in 2020 thanks to a decree, but it was blocked by the courts and finally abandoned at the start of Joe Biden’s first mandate. But a bipartite group of legislators relaunched efforts to prohibit Tiktok for national security reasons in 2023, and this law was adopted in 2024 and was signed by Biden.

President Trump succeeded in a complete 180 in March 2024 during the contribution of the presidential election, insisting that he only wanted Tiktok to be banished. And Trump has now delayed the application of the law five times since it took office in January. His repeated delays are almost certainly illegal according to most experts, but the congress did not acted.

An area where Congress can act, according to the Washington Post, is to wonder if the proposed agreement really follows the letter of the law. Bytedance investors will always have an important participation in the company, and Bytedance will apparently keep control of the Tiktok algorithm in one way or another, although there are still questions about how all this can shake.

A journalist asked Trump in the oval office if he wanted to see the new Tiktok algorithm suggests more content related to Maga.

“If I could, I would do it 100% linked to Maga,” said Trump laughing at his subordinates. “It’s actually a good question, but I would … if I could do 100% Maga, I would do it. But that will not work this way, unfortunately.”

But Trump then suggested that other unlined unlined groups are still allowed to exist on Tiktok. “No, everyone will be treated fairly. Each group, each philosophy, each policy will be treated very fairly,” said Trump.

Trump can emphasize that everyone will get a fair fixed on the new Tiktok, but about 30 minutes later, in the same presentation of the oval office, Trump signed a presidential note targeting left and anti-fascist groups to continue.

“They are anarchists and agitators, anarchists and professional agitators, and they are hired by rich people, some of whom I know, I suppose … Probably,” said Trump. “You cannot dinner with them. Everything is good, and then you discover that they have financed millions of dollars to these crazy people.”

FBI director Kash Patel, Prosecutor General Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller’s main advisor were all on the spot to threaten left groups, saying that they are “national terrorists”.

President Trump also said last week that the television channels that criticize him should have their broadcast licenses removed.

CBS canceled Stephen Colbert’s spectacle under pressure, and ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel last week before reinstating him on Tuesday. The president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, has made MOB type threats against ABC, and it remains to be seen how many additional criticisms, the Trump regime can be able to silence. Trump has already tweeted that Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are “following”.

The President does not even like the lightest forms of criticism, and the American government has no problem requiring that media platforms censor people who oppose Trump. It will therefore be interesting to see what happens to the Tiktok algorithm once everything is concluded. It is difficult to imagine a world where Trump allows anti-Trump content to prosper on social networks.

But first, the Tiktok agreement must be finalized. And despite Trump’s repeated insistence that everything is done, it seems that there are a lot of obstacles before it crosses the finish line.