President Donald Trump just inked an executive order that kicks the Chinese overlords out of TikTok’s U.S. operations. This isn’t some half-measure—it’s a full-throated reclaiming of America’s digital turf by a squad of all-American heavyweights. Trump made it clear this came straight from a straight-shooting chat with China’s Xi Jinping, proving once again that tough talk and deal-making get results when you’re leading from strength.
“We have great American investors” ready to take over TikTok, Trump declares, without spilling every name just yet. But he doesn’t hold back on the stars of the show—folks like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Dell Technologies boss Michael Dell, and media titan Rupert Murdoch, the guy behind News Corp and the New York Post.
Trump’s got big plans brewing too—a face-to-face with Xi on the edges of next month’s APEC summit in South Korea.
Trump laid it out plain: “I spoke with President Xi,” he said. “We had a good talk. I told him what we were doing and he said, ‘Go ahead with it.’”
TikTok under ByteDance? It was a Trojan horse, pumping out slanted feeds that buried pro-America voices and boosted every anti-U.S. rant. Leaders in Washington had been hollering about it for years—how the algorithm played favorites with content that chipped away at our values. Trump heard the call and acted, vowing the new setup will level the playing field for real.
He didn’t sugarcoat the reality check, either. “If I could make it 100% MAGA, I would, but it’s not going to work out that way. Unfortunately, no, everyone’s going to be treated fairly,” Trump stated. “Every group, every philosophy, every policy will be treated very fairly.”
Stepping up beside the boss was Vice President JD Vance. He hammered home the guts of the deal: The shadowy algorithm—the one that decides what you see and when—now answers to American bosses, not some far-off regime. It’s a lease on the tech, sure, but with ironclad control in U.S. hands.
“What this deal ensures is that the American entity and the American investors will actually control the algorithm,” the vice president said. “We don’t want this used as a propaganda tool by any foreign government. We want to make sure that our people and our investors actually make these decisions based on what’s good for their business, as opposed to what’s good for another government’s propaganda arms.”
This deal screams volumes about Trump’s foreign policy playbook: Strong borders, strong handshakes, and zero tolerance for anyone using U.S. soil as a spy playground. Remember the early days of his first term, when he called out TikTok as a national security nightmare?
He was right then, and he’s delivering now. No more data harvested for the Communist Party; it’s all staying stateside, fueling innovation on our terms.
Vance nailed it when he talked business over bull—let American investors chase profits their way, not twist in the wind for some dictator’s agenda.
That’s the populist promise: Empower the doers, the builders, the ones who actually create wealth for working families. Not the bureaucrats or the Beijing billionaires. This TikTok takeover? It’s a blueprint for taking back control in every corner of our economy.
As the ink dries on this executive order, one thing’s crystal clear: With Trump at the helm, America’s roaring back. No more kowtowing to foreign foes, no more handing our future to faceless algorithms abroad.
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