( September 26, 2025, 12:46 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump on Sept. 25 issued an executive order (EO) stating that a proposed divestiture plan through which TikTok Inc.’s parent company China-based “ByteDance Ltd. and its affiliates will own less than 20 percent” of TikTok “resolves the national security concerns” outlined in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, the enforcement of which had been paused as to TikTok through previous executive orders that prevented a ban on the popular social network absent a corporate ownership change....