Within hours of taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order postponing a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app, TikTok.

While I’m excited about many of the president’s executive orders, I strongly disagree with his effort to save TikTok, allowing it to remain in control of its Chinese masters.

The president’s directive extends the enforcement deadline of a law passed by Congress and signed by President Biden that requires the app’s parent company, ByteDance, to find an American buyer or face shutdown in the United States.

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