Written by Alan Soderman

President Donald Trump said prominent billionaires – including media pole Robert Murdoch and Technology founder Michael Del – could be part of a deal that the United States will control in Tiktok social video platform.

Trump called the 94 -year -old girl Murdoch and his son Lachlan MurdochPresident of Fox News and News Corp, as part of a group of potential participants in a deal during an interview registered on Friday and was broadcast on Sunday on Fox News.

“I think they will be in the group,” Trump said. “They are also American nationalists, as you know, they love this country. I think they will do a really good job.”

The disclosure of Trump about the possible participation of Mardukh and Del, the founder and director of Dell Technologies, is the latest development in A. A potential, fast -moving deal To maintain the work of Tiktok in the United States

Trump also said on Sunday that the founder of Oracle and CEO of Technology Larry Ellison was part of the same group. His participation has been revealed before. On Saturday, White House press secretary Caroline Levitte said that Oracle will be responsible for the application data and its security and that the Americans will control six seats seven seats for the planned council.

Many still unknown About the actual deal in business. Trump discussed the Tiktok deal with Chinese Si Jining in a long phone call on Friday. Chinese and US officials until December 16 have to take out the details, in the aftermath of the last date of the deadline by the Trump administration.

Tiktok is a very common application currently owned by a Chinese company, bytedance. American officials have warned of the algorithm that Tiktok uses to form what users see vulnerable to manipulation by the Chinese authorities, which can be used to push the platform content in a difficult way to discover.

Congress passed legislation The call for a Tiktok ban to enter into January, but Trump has repeatedly signed orders that allowed Tiktok to continue working in the United States where his administration is trying to reach an agreement on the parent company of the social networking company to sell its American operations.

On Sunday, Trump said he was a “somewhat biased” about Tiktok because he attributed the application to help him communicate with young voters. Trump said that the dead conservative activist encouraged Charlie Kirk the president to use the application.

It was not possible to reach the representatives of Elison, Dell and Murdochs for comment.

Trump filed a lawsuit against Murdoch and one of his newspapers, Wall Street MagazineIn July, after the publication of reports on the president’s relations with the wealthy and sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

It was originally published: September 21, 2025 at 1:58 pm EST