Trump Again Delays TikTok Ban While Thousands Of Users Celebrate Charlie Kirk Assassination

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a 90-day extension for TikTok to separate from its Chinese owner or face a ban, marking the fourth time the president has postponed the deadline imposed by Congress last year.

Trump issued an executive order Tuesday afternoon, setting a new Dec. 16 deadline for the app’s Chinese parent company — ByteDance — to divest TikTok’s U.S. business or be banned in the country.

Meanwhile, hordes of TikTok users have posted content on the app justifying or even celebrating the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while speaking to students on Wednesday at Utah Valley University. Among them, a high school teacher in Rhode Island who reportedly posted a video saying he had no sympathy for Kirk and is now facing an investigation.

Trump’s order comes just two days after the president announced on Truth Social that the U.S. and China had reached a deal regarding “a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save.” Under the framework being finalized, TikTok’s U.S. operations would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz, The Wall Street Journal