The US president's promise comes as the country's relationship with China continues to deteriorate.
Donald Trump has vowed to ban Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok from operating in the US.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the president said:"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States." He did not specify how he intended to achieve what he described as a"severance", but he could do it through executive action as early as this weekend.TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service
The words are the latest in the administration's increasingly belligerent tone towards China and its technology companies.They came after Mr Trump signed an order forcing Beijing-based owner ByteDance to sell the US portion of TikTok due to national security concerns, according to a report in The Washington Post.
Microsoft is understood to be in the lead to acquire the platform's US service but would not comment.
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