We may never understand why Donald Trump has resolve to impel the sales event of TikTok ’s US assets . More troublingly , his remark on the matter , and its seemingly arbitrary deadline , show he may not fully grasp the concept of cause and force , or of linear fourth dimension .
“ I ’m not extending deadline , no . It ’s September 15th , ” President Trumpyelled to reportersfrom the tarmacadam yesterday , despite already providing one via executive Holy Order . Intriguingly , this date is not one stipulated by government documents , which could beSeptember 20thorNovember 12thdepending on which you opt ; it ’s just one he pick off out of thin airwave . The shout decree is logical with Trump devising himself as kind of a mafioso godfather presiding over this mint , stating from the start that the US shouldget a cut . It ’s also consistent with Trump being the variety of cat who described a basic cognitive subroutine test as , at times , “ very hard . ”
That said , TikTok ’s demise day is any one ’s guess , entirely because the President of the United States insist on making an already spoil demand into a moving target . get ’s take a look at the timeline of various deadlines a $ 100 + billion party has been given to divest a helping of a social connection with an guess 800 million user .
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“ We ’ll see what fall out , ” Trump told reporters yesterday , “ it ’ll either be close up or they ’ll sell it . So we ’ll either shut down up TikTok in this country for surety reasons or it ’ll be sell . ” What he think by “ close up ” is ill-defined , but thefirst executive fiat , signed August 6th , gave TikTok owner ByteDance 45 days to divest from its American assets . This deadline , in committal to writing , on letterhead , would be a hard deadline of September 20th .
The executive order , though , was only an officiation of Trump ’s former threat to force a sales event of TikTok verbally . On August 3rd , he’dtold reportersthat TikTok would have to betray to a “ big , ” “ very American ” companionship by September 15th , apparently the result of some successful negotiating by Microsoft , whichconfirmed the September 15th escort on its web log . This is , by unspoken but nationally - agreed - upon corporate office law , a verbal deadline . A gentle deadline . Nonetheless TikTok employees , according toBusiness Insider , have doom the 15th “ D - Day . ”
surprisal ! On August 14th , Trump signed another order forcing ByteDance to divest from its US assets within “ no later than 90 day . ” This was jolly read by the media as an “ extension ” of the “ deadline ” to November 12th . A deadline extension typically means that we all know that we ’ll go down on the first deadline , but we ’re all committed enough to this labor to sweep it out .
On August 24th , TikTok(the company ) andTikTok ( the ingathering of employee comprising the troupe therein)filed separate lawsuits against the Trump Administration , both arguing that it despoil due physical process with the precipitate executive order , with the employee arguing that the administration was to boot impoverish them of their paychecks . TikTokwould havepreferred , it says , a “ constructive dialogue . ” There seems to be one taking stead , but largely between Trump and Trump on the subject of “ what mean solar day is today , exactly ? ”
By yesterday , it seemed that people familiar with the matter have quietly agree on September 20th , Bloombergreported , with rumors that ByteDance would n’t be able-bodied to meet that deadline . Hours later , Bloombergreportedthat Trump would n’t budge on his September 15th deadline , which again , is a engagement that appears nowhere in either executive order .
So when is the “ TikTok deadline ” ? What is the “ TikTok deadline ” ? Are these the ravings of a man whose scrambled attention span has beenquantifiedby a leading national health expert as a “ negative routine ” ? What month is it , in Trump ’s opinion ? What do we take our cues from when almost nothing this president declare is lawfully enforceable but seems to go on regardless ?
We ’ve strive out to the White House to see if the president knows when 45 days from August 6th is , and if he ’s aware of the current day of the month . We will update if we hear back .
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