A photo placing Donald Trump, the President of the United States, next to the TikTok logo.

The deadline for the sale of TikTok's U.S. operations has been extended by another 90 days. This is the third extension of the sale deadline, which was originally set for June 19 and is now expected to be postponed to mid-September.

Karoline Leavitt, White House spokesperson, noted in a statement on the 17th (local time) that "President Trump does not want the TikTok service to be suspended," adding, "He will sign an additional executive order this week to allow TikTok to continue its services." He explained that the administration would work to finalize the sale agreement during the extended period.

Earlier, President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while returning from the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada that the deadline for TikTok's sale would "probably" be extended. He added that Chinese President Xi Jinping would "eventually approve" the transaction.

The so-called "TikTok ban law" passed the U.S. Congress last April during the previous Biden administration amid bipartisan consensus that China could collect sensitive information from Americans through TikTok or exert undue influence on public opinion.

Under this law, ByteDance, the parent company of the TikTok service operator, must sell TikTok's U.S. operations to American corporations. If the transaction does not go through, TikTok services will be suspended in the United States.

ByteDance has attempted to invalidate or suspend the enforcement of this law through lawsuits and injunction requests, but all efforts have failed.

The original deadline for the sale under this law was January 19 of this year. At that time, the service was briefly suspended, and President Trump extended the sale deadline for 75 days through an executive order shortly after he was inaugurated at noon on January 20. As the expiration of the first extension deadline approached in early April, the deadline was extended for an additional 75 days.

At that time, a transaction to separate TikTok's U.S. service provider from its parent company, ByteDance, was nearly finalized, but the deal fell through after China protested Trump's tariff measures.