Trump gives verdict on Musk buying TikTok as president attacks ‘nasty’ bishop for defending migrants: Live
Donald Trump has said that he would be open to his billionaire ally Elon Musk or Oracle boss Larry Ellison buying the US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok from parent company ByteDance after granting it a 75-day reprieve on being banned in the US.
Asked by reporters at the White House on Tuesday whether he would be happy for Musk to make the acquisition, he answered: “I would be, if he wanted to buy it. I’d like Larry to buy it, too.”
The new president has meanwhile hit out at the Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, who conducted a Tuesday morning prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral he attended, calling her “a Radical Left hard line Trump hater” and saying she had been “ungracious” by calling upon him to show mercy towards LGBT+ children and migrants.
“Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one,” Trump fumed, demanding an apology.
He has meanwhile moved to threaten China with a 10 percent tariff in retaliation for its alleged spread of fentanyl, pardon Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road illegal drugs marketplace, and announce a $500bn AI infrastructure project.
