President Donald Trump issued executive orders that would ban TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US.

The order prohibits after 45 days "any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd.," the Chinese company that owns Tik Tok.

The move turns up the pressure on negotiations over the app. Microsoft said that it was pushing forward with talks to acquire the app. The order alleges that TikTok "captures vast swaths of information from its users," such as location data and browsing and search histories, which "threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information -- potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."

Trump issued a similar order for WeChat, a group chat app owned by Tencent, a Chinese based company.

For WeChat, the order states it will ban financial transactions with Tencent.

"any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with Tencent Holdings Ltd. (a.k.a. Téngxùn Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), Shenzhen, China, or any subsidiary of that entity, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) under section 1(c) of this order."

National security concerns have long fueled reservations surrounding the apps. People working on the issue within the administration expected the President to sign an order to force ByteDance to sell the US operations of TikTok.

TikTok slammed the order .

"We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process," the company said. "For nearly a year, we have sought to engage with the US government in good faith to provide a constructive solution to the concerns that have been expressed. What we encountered instead was that the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses."

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