Quite the contrary, I can clearly see several key figures having their popcorns ready to see the show as we struggle to pull ourselves out of dictatorship.
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President Trump to Announce Apple Investment of $100 Billion in US Manufacturing
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Nah. Regardless of who sworn in after 3 years (could very well be trump 3.0 again), Apple doesn’t really need to rush.
Except, Apple needs qualified engineers and technicians to control and maintain those robots. Where are those people from? Migration is dead at this point and education system has been gutted to oblivion.
I’m all for American production as I don’t think we should be paying lower labor rates as I feel it’s taking advantage of poorer countries or should I say countries with lax labor laws.
I’d happily pay for a phone or device but it would be on the basis I keep it longer.
I’d happily pay for a phone or device but it would be on the basis I keep it longer.
I secretly want countries launching retaliatory tariffs to add their own export tax when exporting to US as well. Dunno how that would work but it sounds fun.
I get Americans are resilient. But with that, even the most resilient could break. Of course this doesn’t matter to rich people and trump can always exempt them from import taxes.
Trump announces huge investment in project aimed at making iPhones cost USD $3000.
There's an actual headline somewhere... it's just not at the top of this post.
Isn't it awkward that so many here are negative about Trump, yet have the country voted for him?
Well, even if majority voted for him, I think it was before everyone found out he's a pedophile.
Gruber summed it up perfectly
Tim Cook, yesterday on X at 1:14pm:
I wonder how much Cook dithered over that cheerful-looking exclamation mark. I hope he regrets it. I wonder whether the latter four knowingly made the error of addressing former president and president-elect Trump as “President Trump”. Our nation only has one president at a time, and that president remains Joe Biden. I wonder how much it stings to be reminded that all the money in the world cannot buy dignity. I wonder too, what taste Cheetos-dusted 78-year-old testicles leave in one’s mouth. Whatever the flavor, I hope it lingers.
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Tim Cook, yesterday on X at 1:14pm:
I wonder how much Cook dithered over that cheerful-looking exclamation mark. I hope he regrets it. I wonder whether the latter four knowingly made the error of addressing former president and president-elect Trump as “President Trump”. Our nation only has one president at a time, and that president remains Joe Biden. I wonder how much it stings to be reminded that all the money in the world cannot buy dignity. I wonder too, what taste Cheetos-dusted 78-year-old testicles leave in one’s mouth. Whatever the flavor, I hope it lingers.
I Wonder
Singsong congratulations from the leaders of America’s biggest companies.
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Because he lies relentlessly.
When you lie to people, they are not voting for what you're actually going to do.
(remember him lying about Project 2025? Claiming he knew nothing of it and it had nothing to do with him ... yet his administration has literally installed the plan, point by point.)
$100b is not much if you consider the US spent more on Ukraine. The revamp manufacturing it will begin in the Trillion$ as investment but in the end corporations won't support because it's too expensive and too many restrictions and red tape here. This is just political theater and both parties play this game.
Let's please not "both sides" anything going on right now.
These are different times and far darker tactics than anything in our lifetimes and really in the history of the US.
There is literally nothing you can do to satisfactorily assuage dictatorial regimes.
It's like dealing with the mob.
Give an inch, they want a mile.... give a mile, they want ten miles... and so on.
Trump has strange priorities.
With all the things going on in the United States... "making iPhones in the US" should be far down on the list.
I remember when "immigrants eating dogs and cats" was his biggest concern...
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Yes, I agree. Trump's lying is out of control. I am thinking back to when I would feel about Steve Jobs how MAGA feels about Trump. But I probably would not like Steve Jobs if he lied during his Keynotes and no longer be a MAGA Steve Jobs admirer.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES $100 BILLION MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT FROM “TIM APPLE,” DECLARES IT “THE BIGGEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE, EXCEPT ME”
Washington, D.C. — In a surprise press conference held in the newly rebranded “Oval Office Presented by Truth Social,” President Donald J. Trump today announced that Tim Cook — whom he affectionately referred to as “Tim Apple” — will be leading Apple’s $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, a move Trump called “the greatest manufacturing announcement in the history of the Country, probably the world, but I don’t like to brag.”
“This is a very big deal. Very big. Tim Apple is making the biggest investment in American manufacturing — EVER. People are saying it’s even bigger than the moon landing. And I said, ‘Of course it is — we’re bringing jobs back. The moon doesn’t make iPhones, folks.’”
According to President Trump, the investment will include:
Apple, when reached for comment, released a brief statement reading, “We are still trying to confirm whether this actually happened.”
The press conference ended when President Trump unveiled a prototype of the new “iTrump Phone,” a gold-plated iPhone with a built-in Truth Social app and a ringtone that plays “God Bless the U.S.A.” on loop. He then walked off humming “YMCA” and pointing skyward.
PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES $100 BILLION MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT FROM “TIM APPLE,” DECLARES IT “THE BIGGEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE, EXCEPT ME”
Washington, D.C. — In a surprise press conference held in the newly rebranded “Oval Office Presented by Truth Social,” President Donald J. Trump today announced that Tim Cook — whom he affectionately referred to as “Tim Apple” — will be leading Apple’s $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, a move Trump called “the greatest manufacturing announcement in the history of the Country, probably the world, but I don’t like to brag.”
“This is a very big deal. Very big. Tim Apple is making the biggest investment in American manufacturing — EVER. People are saying it’s even bigger than the moon landing. And I said, ‘Of course it is — we’re bringing jobs back. The moon doesn’t make iPhones, folks.’”
According to President Trump, the investment will include:
- “Gigantic” factories in “all the great states”
- New lines of iPhones “made with freedom, not communism.”
- Thousands of American jobs for “real patriots, not the ones who drink soy lattes.”
Apple, when reached for comment, released a brief statement reading, “We are still trying to confirm whether this actually happened.”
The press conference ended when President Trump unveiled a prototype of the new “iTrump Phone,” a gold-plated iPhone with a built-in Truth Social app and a ringtone that plays “God Bless the U.S.A.” on loop. He then walked off humming “YMCA” and pointing skyward.
Preferably not the version that Trump had 1000 FBI agents pour over and redact every instance of his name.
If they ever get released it im going to assume every redacted name is “Donald Trump”.
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This is incorrect as you are equating tariffs with a flat tax and the two are completely unrelated. Markets determine pricing through demand, not import fees. Apple cannot raise iPhone prices beyond what the market values them and would instead likely absorb a small hit to margin to protect their market share while aggressively trying to lower production and unit costs. This is not a rich/poor thing and Apple’s recent domestic US investment announcements are an effort to minimize any import exposure and strike a deal with the Treasury/Commerce departments.
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