US President Donald Trump says he is open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wants to do so.
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00:00Are you open to Elon buying TikTok?
00:02I would be if he wanted to buy it, yeah.
00:04On your non-personal operation, on your non-personal?
00:06I'd like Larry to buy it, too.
00:08I have the right to make a deal.
00:09And I've met with owners of TikTok, the big owners.
00:14It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit.
00:17It's not like, oh, you can take the U.S.
00:19The whole thing is worthless.
00:21With a permit, it's worth like a trillion dollars.
00:24So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is buy it
00:28and give half to the United States of America, half,
00:32and we'll give you the permit.
00:33And they'll have a great partner, the United States.
00:36And they'll have something that's actually more valuable
00:38because they have the ultimate partner.
00:40And the United States will make it very worthwhile for them.
00:44By the way, again, we won the young vote.
00:46I think I won it through TikTok.
00:48So I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok, okay?
00:52Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:54Thank you, Mr. President.