Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s victory lap on a TikTok deal has blown up in his face.

President Donald Trump left his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping without any mention of an agreement regarding the app’s future, despite Bessent asserting on Sunday that “we reached a deal on TikTok.”

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, noted that the meeting with Jinping—spun as a success by the White House because it reached a trade deal to fix part of its self-inflicted tariff crisis—left many key issues unresolved.

“The remarkable thing about this was what wasn’t in their announcements,” he said of the Trump administration on CNN, adding, “There’s the TikTok issue. There’s Taiwan. We heard about none of them.”

Bessent, 63, attempted to save face before he

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