On Friday morning, the Trump administration announced that it will be blocking any new U.S. downloads of the TikTok and WeChat apps beginning on September 20, citing national security reasons.
According to a press release from the Department of Commerce, the ban is intended to enforce President Trump's original executive order from August 6 in which he gave the China-based companies behind the apps 45 days to sell their U.S. businesses to a U.S. company, or be banned.