As part of the controversy that the Trump administration has had over ByteDance and the TikTok app, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on 6 August 2020. One order was directed at TikTok, that within 45 days from its signing (20 September 2020) that it would ban transactions involving the TikTok app with ByteDance, effectively banning the TikTok app in the United States, under threat of penalty. The second order contained the same information but targeting the WeChat app and related transactions for Tencent.