-- "The President's executive order is unconstitutional and ultra vires, and must be enjoined."

-- Trump's suggestion of ByteDance paying a fee to the U.S. government for facilitating a deal to sell TikTok to a U.S. company also showed that the regulatory move is a politicized one, lawyers said in the lawsuit.

-- Attacking Chinese social media platforms that enjoy wide support in the United States is entirely counterproductive to trade relations with China and is harmful to Americans.

Photo taken on Aug. 21, 2020 shows a logo of the video-sharing social networking company TikTok's Los Angeles Office in Culver City, Los Angeles County, the United States. (Xinhua)

by Huang Heng, Julia Pierrepont III

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24  -- Video-sharing social networking company TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump's administration over Trump's Aug. 6 executive order banning any U.S. transactions with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance, starting in 45 days.

In the 39-page indictment acquired by Xinhua, Trump, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and the Department of Commerce (DOC) were listed as defendants.