Trump Administration Bans TikTok, WeChat App Downloads in U.S. as of Sept. 20

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Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsPresident Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that the American people should not be afraid of COVID-19, even though the disease has taken nearly 210,000 lives nationwide.

Chris Cuomo on Monday night lit into Donald Trump for his antics earlier in the day, when the president made a show of leavingWalter Reed National Military Medical Center as though it was a movie scene despite the fact he is still sick (although no one knows how badly) with COVID-19.

Kanye West has said he is praying for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump after they tested positive for the coronavirus.The US president and his wife were both confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday (October 2).Trump tweeted the news, writing: “Flotus [Melania] and I have tested positive for COVID-19.

Earlier this weekend, US President Donald Trump confirmed that he and Melania Trump have contracted COVID-19. The POTUS revealed that he and the FLOTUS have been quarantined.

pic.twitter.com/B4H105KVSs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020He said that his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, is ‘doing very well’.Trump is still reportedly carrying out official duties from the Presidential offices at the hospital.White House physician Navy Cmdr.

British actor Dominic West has said he hopes Donald Trump testing positive for coronavirus does not “interfere with him being elected out of office”.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe federal judge who blocked the White House’s ban on TikTok downloads in the U.S. Sunday night said that the Trump administration “likely exceeded the lawful bounds” of the powers afforded to the president under the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.President Trump invoked the IEEPA in his executive order to ban TikTok, the short-form video app owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, in the United States.

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an American-owned company, after voicing concerns that the app, which is owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, was misusing user information and jeopardizing national security. If a sale isn’t approved by that date, Trump said, he’ll ban new downloads of the app in U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorWeChat, the Chinese messaging app that was set to get effectively switched off for American users Sunday night, for now will still be available and operational in the U.S.A federal judge in San Francisco issued a ruling early Sunday issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s order to ban the WeChat app, which is owned by China internet giant Tencent.Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, of the U.S.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAs a deadline loomed for TikTok to shut down its US operations, President Donald Trump said Saturday he has agreed in concept to a deal under which Chinese-owned app TikTok can continue.Trump said a partnership with Oracle and Walmart that will make the video-sharing company and its data US-based has won him over.“I have given the deal my blessing, if they get it done, that’s okay too, if they don’t, that’s fine too,”  Trump told reporters at the White House on

President Donald Trump is barreling ahead with his vanity project distraction tactic Gen Z revenge plot plan to ban TikTok.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Trump administration made good on its threat to block U.S.

The U.S. will ban the downloads of the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday, with a total ban on the use of the latter, citing national security and data privacy concerns.

use the app. Loren Gray’s song clips and Sarah Cooper’s Trump parodies can continue.So if you have TikTok on your phone heading into Sunday, you’re still able to post all the videos you like.

ban new downloads of the app starting this Sunday, as well as the department’s decision to ban the app outright on November 12, if a deal isn’t reached with a U.S. firm.

Transactions with two popular Chinese-owned social media platforms will soon be banned in the United States.Both TikTok - the video-sharing social networking service - and WeChat - a multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app - will be affected.The US Commerce Department will be rolling out a ban of transactions using the two services from Sunday, September 20.The order that was put into place earlier today aims to "combat China's malicious collection of American citizens'