President Donald Trump said Friday that a deal to separate TikTok from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had been approved by China’s top leader, Xi Jinping.

“He approved the TikTok deal,” Trump told reporters Friday afternoon at the White House. But he also said there was more work to do on the deal, and he provided few details of what an agreement would look like. “We have to get it signed,” he said.

“The TikTok deal is well on its way,” he added. “We look forward to getting that deal closed.”

Those comments followed a post earlier in the day on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, made after his call with Xi.

Trump wrote, “The call was a very good one, we will be speaking again by phone, appreciate the TikTok approval.” But he also said, “we made progress on many very import

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