President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat. Trump had threatened a deadline of Sept. 15 to “close down” TikTok unless Microsoft or “somebody else” bought it. TikTok, Microsoft and WeChat owner Tencent had no immediate replies to queries.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that he was expanding the U.S. crackdown on Chinese technology to personal apps, citing alleged security threats and calling out TikTok and WeChat by name. Analysts on Wednesday questioned the legal basis for a ban on apps.
TikTok is a video-sharing app that’s widely popular among young people in the U.S. and elsewhere. It is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which operates a separate version for the Chinese market. TikTok insists it does not store U.S. user information in China and would not share it with the Chinese government.
Americans will soon lose LoL and Fortnight
realDonaldTrump broadly prohibits unspecified 'transactions' with Chinese owners' – Bold move! If we had done this in 2004 & 2014, China wouldn't be the superpower it is today! IBM sold PC business to China in 2004 for gov. favor admits Samuel J. Palmisano, the CEO. SecPompeo
An executive order -- Banning app due to security and privacy concerns Protecting our privacy is the biggest challenge of our generation. – we need tech with “privacy by design” like iotex_io to guarantee our privacy OwnYourPrivacy
He just made sure everyone under 18 votes Democrat in a few years.
Get him Gen Z!
He wants to be sure of the amount of his bribe.
Tulsa rally. This is just a pitiful lashing out. Pluuuuuus a certain Facebook released a competitive ap on THE SAME DAY! Wow, such a coincidence 🤔
Fight4HongKong Petition on the White House on “China Human Rights Act” 美国人开始与中共作战，中国人也要起来！
Fight4HongKong
Why US govt can’t respond to combat the pandemic as quickly as they ban those apps? Because, I assume, the govt cares more about their own benefits than ppl’s life
It’s said that any company of US which buys TikTok needs to give a share to Trump administration. So he wanna another share now ?
If so, no one will buy the iphone in China
He maybe want we to change ours cell phones
美国准备闭关锁国啦，如果微信报复特朗普只用一招，不准苹果手机在中国使用微信，苹果就会自动退出全球最大的市场，中国购买手机如果没有微信应用，绝对不会购买
These Chinese companies are using this apps to collect people’s private information and send to the CCP. They should definitely be banned for everyone’s and the country’s safety. BoycottMadeInChina
Should have done this long time ago to let CN taste their own medicine to see how foreigners communicate with their friends&family while living in China. Also no more tax evasions with Wechat payments in CN businesses in US. No more CN gov spying through phone storage access.
With this moove Trump will loose to Biden in November...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
King of know has been insane
chineselivematters
It could be a double-edged sword. Image all the American business in China cannot use WeChat for business and payment. Far more ramifications than Tiktok
Follow the money trail . . . .
Is the American defence communication system made of paper？ anything can destroy it. 最后 川普 👩🏻不要你 你滚吧
Oh my…I use WeChat for three years,and it is much better than Facebook,I don't think that's a good idea.
ban Tiktok , ban Wechat, ban China , is the cure to COVID-19. Make America Great Again!
LOL only Chinese students are using wechat here in U.S, and Trump is banning it for “threats to personal data of American citizens”.
中国企业没有任何错误，中国完全秉持开放共享人类命运共同体。忠告：犯我中华者，虽远必诛
'Unspecified'. I'm banning 'unspecified' articles written by morons who work for AP.
The EO defines “person”, “entity”, and “United States person” but does not define the “transactions” that it prohibits.
He’s what at Trump will do..he’ll get everyone in a tither then “flip flop” to look a hero in order to garner their votes in November MasterManipulater
Zoom still working for China.oh my.
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Can Mr. Great Donald Trump ban Chinese virus please?
wtf is this president thinking? Are u serious not taking care of the virus but the app?
soon this piece of American shit will ban everything from China . China will not lose out , American will
Seriously? People are dying and he’s trying to ban apps?
truth is every tech exec who also wouldn't admit that china was meddling with their business bends the knee to a foreign power, and should be dealt with as a threat to national security, because they are.
He doesn't even know what tiktok is.. he just knows AP isn't posting about 159,000 American Covid related deaths right now. It's just a distraction.
I never thought 'greasy spray-tan' would be a phrase that popped into my head today, but here we are.
yotakeoldtales Well done! Chinazi
Great! No one should live under the censorship and surveillance of the CCP . Technology companies from China like TikTok , Huawei , Zoom ,Xiaomi collect your data and send to the ccp servers via backdoor sequence! chinazi BoycottChineseProduct BoycottChina
Does WeChat actually have a presence, like an office or a server, in the US? Billions of people use this app, and many of them travel through the US🧐
I don't think he thought this one through. Banning social media and online games seems like the most efficient way to get a large group of non-political people to pick a side very quickly.
Next, let’s ban Covid-19 so we can go back to our regular lives!
It's just a Sharpie scribbling nonsense on paper. DJT is nuts.
Wtf how am I going to talk to my families?! Through letter?
Good
TrumpIsNotWell
Seems illegal.
All he wants is to shut down tiktok cause he's afraid of what it can do to him and his LOOSER campaign realDonaldTrump
Means nothing. He can shove his eo up his orange a$$.
China's ban on Facebook is called autocracy. U.S. ban on TikTok is called national security.
Syphilis in chief
Meaning it has NOTHING to do with China and everything to do with his ego. If it can't sell to an American company he's proving he's just being a communist.
So you is know, this be nothing but revenge on young people who punk The Donald on him Tulsa rally. Him never even hear of the Tik Tok before this. - RogueFirstLady
DefundChina BanChina
All transaction
Can we talk about how horrifically 'blended' his orange makeup is in this pic? 😂🤡
Akin to a 73 yr. Old Inheritance baby saying he's a failure and he doesn't know what to do except ... This n That See, look at me I'm doin somethin just nothing I'm supposed to do
That makeup line...someone get this man a blending brush.
He is shit scared of the Generation Z collective who are at voting age.
Lmao look at this soggy bitcc
i think i trust the Chinese more than the t-word
Alternate headline: Trump's sweat *almost* cuts a path through his makeup.
He wants his cut of a transaction. He is being told no. So, he blocks the deal
this man has no idea what he’s doing.
Was this pic taken after his tryst with Stormy Daniels?
WHY IS HE SO WUICK TO BAN AN APP BUT NOT HELP CORONA- nvm🙈
damn right Donnie, TikTok outta pocket..
I will help any tik tok user download a non 5 eyes vpn to bypass this unconstitutional order
Uhhhh... what 🤨
jasonkellynews
Thankfully, we have a President who is protecting Americans!
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