Trump brushes off TikTok national security concerns while calling for a 50% deal [Video]

During his Oval Office spray, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to postpone the ban on TikTok as he tries to find a way to keep the app active in the U.S. — instructing the attorney general to delay the ban by 75 days.

The newly inaugurated president also shrugged off national security concerns about the social media app when pressed by reporters in the Oval Office on Monday evening.

“TikTok is worthless, worthless if I don’t approve it, it has to close. I learned that from the people that own it. If I don’t do the deal, it’s worthless, worth nothing. If I do the deal, it’s worth maybe a trillion dollars, a trillion,” Trump said.

He continued to argue that there should be at least 50% U.S. ownership of the app, although he didn’t make mention of the national security that prompted the app’s ban in the first place. Trump notably called for a ban …