President Donald Trump said he'd be open to the possibility of TikTok's sale to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison.
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00:00Are you open to Elon buying TikTok?
00:02I would be if he wanted to buy it, yeah.
00:07I'd like Larry to buy it, too.
00:10I have the right to make a deal.
00:13So the deal I'm thinking about, Larry, let's negotiate in front of the media.
00:17The deal I think is this, and I've met with owners of TikTok, the big owners.
00:24It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit.
00:27It's not like, oh, you can take the U.S.
00:29The whole thing is worthless.
00:31With a permit, it's worth like a trillion dollars.
00:35So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is buy it and give half to the United States
00:40of America, half, and we'll give you the permit, and they'll have a great partner, the United
00:45States, and they'll have something that's actually more valuable because they have the
00:49ultimate partner, and the United States will make it very worthwhile for them in terms
00:54of the permits and everything else.
00:56So think of it, you have an asset that has no value or has a trillion-dollar value.
01:02It all depends on whether or not the United States gives the permit.
01:05So what I'm saying is let the United States give the permit, and the United States should
01:09get half.
01:10Sounds reasonable.
01:11What do you think?
01:12Sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President.
01:13He can afford it, too.