But Stewart dropped all pretenses, "Honestly there's not a useful app of communication not controlled by at least one of these individuals and you may not be concerned that they've all ponied up a $1 million to be sitting there and are kissing the a** of a president who openly threatens non-a** kissers."

Meta is the all-American social media company and TikTok faces an eternal uphill battle to convince Washington that it’s not controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaking to the Associated Press, Ricaurte Vásquez, head of the agency that manages the canal, noted that other ports are controlled by U.S. and Taiwanese companies; of suggestions the U.S. could take it back, he said only that there is "no foundation for that sort of hope."

Payments deposited into the fund — named the “Orthodontic International Training Program for Research Education Fund” — were used for various expenses, including a lab freezer, computer hard drives, and a $26,000 transfer to an account “controlled” by Ting’s spouse, a plastic surgery professor at UCLA, the report said.

Firstly, the app has to be controlled by a foreign adversary, like China, Russia, or Iran, that the president determines presents a significant threat to national security.