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President Trump Says He’s Open to Elon Musk, Larry Ellison Buying TikTok

The Information · Rocket Drew · last updated

President Donald Trump said he would be open to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison buying TikTok, which is facing a ban in the U.S. if it doesn’t separate itself from its Chinese parent ByteDance.

“I’d like Larry to buy it, too,” Trump said, noting that he had met …

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