Bold of people to assume that this guy won’t desperately try to hold power after 3.5 years.
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President Trump to Announce Apple Investment of $100 Billion in US Manufacturing
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All vendors will raise prices due to the import taxes and competition helps lower prices. They will throw users some cheap upgrade to raise their prices and not anger Trump,
All (high volume) smartphones are imported. Therefore, the whole category will just get more expensive.
Regarding unit cost ... I would be really surprised if Tim Cook hasn't already squeezed out every last penny out of Apple's suppliers during his 20+ years tenure at Apple. They could still probably reduce unit cost. Though I'm not sure how Apple customers would feel about buying new iPhones with worse CPUs, smaller batteries and plastic bodies.
Nice job President Trump. Making America Great Again. Keep up the good work.
No, the Epstein Files ARE the distraction. As long as the public is distracted by the titillating prospect of the Epstein Files, they won't notice the daily destruction of our justice system, the selling off of public assets, demolition of our research capabilities, the severing of our social safety nets, and the erosion of our civil rights. And by eliminating data dissemination, we won't even notice the collapsing economy or environment through all that Canadian wildfire smoke. But sure, gimme the details on some dead, rich pedophile -- that's more important.
Isn't it awkward that so many here are MAGA?
Keep lying to yourself and drinking that orange koolaid.
The entire US did Not vote for him, ~<50% but enough to put appoint him as POTUS. 🤦♂️
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Arrest and imprison the fraudulent criminal and illegitimate orange nazi, along with the rest of his fascist regime.
These sorts of announcements are just the standard playbook of placating the current administration. They could be real, they could have been planned long ago, they could be cancelled at any time, or they could be fake to begin with.
These things are important. Unfortunately, people are generally incapable of or unwilling to evaluate complex issues. Most people can understand the danger of a predator though, so if direct evidence of such comes out, then that "distraction" may actually be the one thing that matters in-practice.
That's incorrect. People still need to eat, drive, buy basic goods to survive, buy laptops to work, buy tablets to study.
When they elected Barack the first time I thought wow, America has really turned a corner. How completely, utterly, totally wrong I was.
(I could've continued the analogy to make a pithy comment but am too saddened by it all to even want to).
And he has got a lot done in his first 6 months!
They could officially announce it, and half of his base would still deny it while the other half would say “this is exactly what we voted for.”
This is the kind of cynical, defeatist mindset that keeps the country stagnant. So let me get this straight. Apple announces an additional $100 billion investment in American manufacturing, bringing the total to $600 billion, and your first reaction is to dismiss it because of your personal dislike for Trump?
That money means real jobs. Real factories. Real opportunities for American workers. Not in China. Not in Vietnam. Here. In Michigan, in Texas, and across the country. You don’t have to like Trump to admit that pressuring Apple to reinvest in the United States worked.
And let’s not ignore the fact that Tim Cook is standing next to him while announcing this. If this were just “words,” why is the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world lending credibility to it?
Whether Trump is in office for four more years or not, this deal already happened. Manufacturing investments do not vanish with a change in administration. You don’t build a $100 billion infrastructure overnight and then pack it up because your preferred candidate lost an election.
So maybe stop rooting for failure just because you dislike the man in charge. This move helps American workers, regardless of who is president.
Not if Vance runs and names Trump as his VP and wins. Then after taking office, he abdicates and Trump becomes Prez AGAIN! Digest that!
This is the classic regurgitation of globalist talking points, and it falls apart under basic scrutiny.
First, tariffs are not inherently a tax on poor people. They are a corrective measure to level the playing field when foreign countries exploit cheap labor, manipulate their currency, and flood the U.S. with underpriced goods. The reason American manufacturing died is because we allowed countries like China to undercut our workers with slave labor. Tariffs push back.
Second, the idea that “rich people don’t care about tariffs” misses the point entirely. This is not about whether someone notices the cost of a MacBook. It’s about where that MacBook is made. If tariffs force Apple or Nike or anyone else to invest in U.S. manufacturing, then the long-term result is jobs, not handouts. Working-class Americans want paychecks, not pity.
Third, “no one wants to work in factories sewing shoes” is elitist nonsense. Millions of Americans would gladly take solid-paying trade and manufacturing jobs if they existed in their communities. The problem is those jobs were shipped overseas while politicians like Biden signed deals that gutted our industrial base. Trump tried to reverse that.
Next, the revenue from tariffs is not a tax scam. It is a tool. While rich people find loopholes in the tax code, tariffs go after multinational corporations and foreign exporters. They create pressure to shift production back home. That helps the middle class.
Lastly, the idea that no factories will be built is just false. Apple, for example, announced a $1 billion campus in Austin, a new supplier academy in Michigan, and expanded domestic supply lines. That is happening now. Not in theory. Not in a press release. In real life.
Basic logic? Here’s logic: If we rely on China for all our goods, we are not sovereign. If we bring production back, we control our economy and strengthen our working class. That should matter whether you wear a MAGA hat or not.
Won't work! A person, that has been president two times, can't be nominated as vice president - that's it!
Watch live: Apple CEO Cook joins Trump for investment announcement at White House
Edit:https://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/
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