Transcript of Donald Trump is "open" to Elon Musk buying TikTok. #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #TikTok #BBCNews

By the way, again, we won the young vote. I think I won it through TikTok. So I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok. Okay? Thank you. Are you open to Elon buying TikTok?

I would be if he wanted to buy it. I'd like Larry to buy it, too. I have the right to make a deal. And I met with owners of TikTok, the big owners. It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit. It's not like, Oh, you can take the US. The whole thing is worthless. With a permit, it's worth like a trillion dollars. So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is, Buy it and give half to the United States of America, half, and we'll give you the permit. And they'll have a great partner, the United States.'ll have something that's actually more valuable because they have the ultimate partner, and the United States will make it very worthwhile for them.