Trump suggests Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok, hopes for a ‘bidding war’
President Trump suggested on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he hopes a “bidding war” breaks out over the contentious Chinese-owned social media app. “I would say, yes,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if the software giant was bidding to buy TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.