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.

Americans are going to lose access to TikTok in less than a week, unless China green-lights a sale to what Congress has deemed a non-adversary of the United States — something China is unlikely to do but might.

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 countrywide ban starting next week — and Musk is reportedly the most likely candidate.

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.”

Unless its owner agrees to sell, TikTok will be banned in the U.S. on Jan. 19. Here's how to download your account if no one buys the app.

Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.

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.

US President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that he would be open to billionaire Elon Musk purchasing the social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO decided to pursue it.

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.

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

Chew is the latest tech executive to be offered a spot on the dais to watch Trump be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, according to the New York Times. He is joining Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO and presidential adviser Elon Musk, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

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