WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Monday that TikTok will be banned in the United States on Sept. 15 unless an American company buys the US operations of the Chinese-owned short-form video app deemed a potential national security risk.
His remarks came after media reported that Microsoft Corp. was in talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, a deal that would give the US software giant a popular social-media service while alleviating the Trump administration’s pressure on TikTok and its parent company ByteDance Ltd.
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