Because Apple executives should have seen Trump’s election and his chaotic nationalistic protectionism? Sure, let’s expect in hindsight that Jobs and Cook need to be prophets.
We’ve had decades of globalization and one man isn’t going to break it.
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Trump Demands US iPhone Production, Threatens 25% Tariff
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We’ve had decades of globalization and one man isn’t going to break it.
Incorrect: around 51% of people that voted voted for Trump (IIRC, the margin is actually lower), but only about 31% of the electorate voted for him. A good portion of people didn't even vote.
You know what I'm going to do this year? Not buy an iPhone. Problem solved. The sky is not falling. All of this will clear in time for next years foldable. 
more fake news. most likely even more people voted for him than you think. americans as a majority have pretty much had it with the left.
Has any Trump supporters defended this? I would REALLY like to see how they justify this for their "daddy".
Found you! Gotta love how you guys just can't stop sucking the teet of your "daddy". This isn't a left or right thing anymore.You know what I'm going to do this year? Not buy an iPhone. Problem solved. The sky is not falling. All of this will clear in time for next years foldable.
I'm a Trump supporter and I support maximum pressure. It's called thinking about the big picture.
A Republican president has only received half the vote once in the last 35 years or so. And it was GWB, not 47.
I don’t think there is going to be another election in America
This is it for you guys from here on in.
Happy Friday!
I cannot believe that after the last presidentialperformance from Donald Trump that Americans voted him back in again
My dude, Trump didnt even manage to get 50% of the vote, the majority of people who voted voted for someone else
I have to use Siri because I have an iphone but I prefer Google assistant or Gemini or whatever they call it over Siri, A lot of things may need to have the iphone unlocked or it gives me something very unrelated to what I was looking for.
What do you imagine the actual practical outcome of this “maximum pressure” will be?
Actually, according to the FEC he got 49.8% of the popular vote. Harris got 48.3%. This is not the mandate you were looking for.
Globalization will go on without US participation. We will sit on the sidelines, paying ridiculous prices for…everything.
Sounds like something Don & Jeff Epstein would have said to each other on the island while contemplating which underage sexual violation they were going to co-participate in.
There's 194 other countries. Breaking one isn't breaking globalisation.
This sounds like something someone says when they're on the toilet. Trump and a toilet are synonymous too, so you have that going for you lmao
I’ll have you know I wrote most of my sensible posts on the toilet. It must be something else. Possibly that horse kick to the head.
Yeah, I’ll be honest when I saw the headlines I thought it was something out of the onion. Apparently Hegseth wants to make it a regular monthly thing. So much for separation of church and state among other things wrong with this
The sooner we can vote these traitorous chuckleheads out of office the better
Just curious, but isn’t Trump claiming this tariff power under an emergency? This would be a perfect opportunity for a company to stand up to it with a legal challenge. Literally every country would side with Apple, along with foreign nations, etc. The courts need to check this tariff power since Congress won’t