As the Jan. 19 date for a TikTok ban approaches, another name is emerging as a potential buyer: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who already owns X.

US President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that he would be open to billionaire Elon Musk purchasing the social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO decided to pursue it.

The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.

Tesla bull Ross Gerber doubts the effectiveness of Donald Trump's executive order to delay TikTok's federal ban, citing national security laws, as Elon Musk's X emerges as a contender for TikTok's U.S.

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

Tesla ( TSLA) stock jumped more than 6% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a countrywide ban starting next week — and Musk is reportedly the most likely candidate.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so. "I would be, if he wanted to buy it," Trump told reporters when asked if he was open to Musk buying the platform.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

Potential TikTok buyers are lining up as President Trump and the Chinese government show heightened interest in striking a deal to sell the popular video-sharing platform in the face of a U.S.

President Donald Trump had recently expressed his support in SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok.

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