BUSINESS/SOCIAL MEDIA: “It’s [TikTok] a great asset. It’s a great asset, but it’s not a great asset in the United States unless they have the approval of the United States. So it’ll close down on September 15th, unless Microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal. Really, the Treasury, I guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money, a lot of money. Okay?”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with U.S. Tech Workers and Signing of an Executive Order on Hiring American,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020