{"id":27243,"date":"2020-07-31T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27243"},"modified":"2020-08-02T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T20:45:52","slug":"trump-pushes-to-break-up-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27243","title":{"rendered":"Trump pushes to break up TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0plans to announce an executive order soon aimed at forcing Beijing-based ByteDance to sell U.S. operations for the popular social media platform TikTok,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djcszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjcrgjt_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djcszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjcrgjt_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596422019625000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKHu9JuZuqnzukTwKwZrk_0yTwpQ\">according to multiple reports<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnmfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknvtsnr_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnmfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknvtsnr_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596422019626000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEDeHSCVX99P7OyCo2jPKXYhp-Jmg\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>\u00a0that Trump could sign the executive order as soon as Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters while leaving the White House earlier in the day that he was &#8220;looking at TikTok&#8221; and considering a ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may be banning TikTok, we may be doing some other things,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere are a couple of options, but a lot of things are happening so we will see what happens. We are looking at a lot of alternatives with TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments echo those of Secretary of State\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvbcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvkfmvq_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvbcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvkfmvq_thplvvhzhklvpczhmmvw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596422019626000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOAOzOsuQi_4K55Tx2H360V93xXw\">Mike Pompeo<\/a>, who said last month that the administration was considering banning Chinese-owned apps, including TikTok, due to national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not have any immediate further comment, while the Treasury Department did not immediately respond to The Hill\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0plans to announce an executive&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27244,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27243\/revisions\/27244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}