ABC’s Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary shared on Monday that he has met with President-elect Donald Trump about closing a deal to buy the social media app TikTok.
In an interview on Fox News‘s The Story with Martha MacCallum, O’Leary discussed his latest steps in nearing a purchase of the app from its Chinese parent company ByteDance in hopes of making TikTok an American-owned company and avoiding it being banned in the United States on Jan. 19.
The business investor said he recently met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago about several agenda items, including teaming up with Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt in a bid to buy TikTok.
“It’s a multibillion-dollar deal and we’re gonna have to work with President Trump,” the Shark Tank television personality said, adding, “This is a bipartisan situation — we have to work initially with [Joe] Biden, and we want to, and…
