Trump says the US ‘pretty much’ has a deal on TikTok

FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States “pretty much” has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.

Last month, Trump extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by Tom Hogue)