Tim Cook must’ve refused to
give Trump more money.
A payment has been demanded.
Unfortunately, APPL can’t agree,
because then there will be more
payments, whether Trump agrees
to stop demanding more and more
payments, or not.
This is what the ruling class wants,
or it wouldn’t be happening.
Which is probably cheaper than manufacturing them here after building a facility here. Besides, all Cook needs to do to get that reversed is buy into the meme coin.
Tim Cook was hoping the cool $1,000,000.00 he gave our Grifter-in-Chief for his inauguration would protect his IPhones from additional tariffs.
So sorry Tim. Maybe an additional really expensive gift will fix your trump issues. A plane perhaps or a free Apple Watch?
On March 21, 2024 the DOJ and the attorneys general of 16 states announced an antitrust case against Apple for allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market. They’ll be fine with those tariffs.
Perhaps he should pay the tariffs with his own crypto money since he is the person who put the tariffs on other countries. Listed are his products made or materials bought from other countries 🤔 https://x.com/i/grok/share/9r2q2G9hQllIgwgqgVx6yblT3
Apple should just make and sell a US made version of their iPhone and sell it alongside the regular phone with or w/o the tariff. Like this guy did in Texas with showerheads.
The 25% tariff would be cheaper for the consumer than having them made in the US, where you would actually have to pay workers more than a part-time fry cook.
Then he will quietly allow placing a sticker on the final product to qualify as “Made in America” and call it a win. Baron’s new company Great American Stickers will be providing stickers at a competitive rate.
Apple has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in China for 20 years and he thinks that’s gonna happen here in the foreseeable future. He’s a lunatic.
Not so much what Tim will do, it's what consumers will do. Let's just say I expect i-phone sales in Canada will see an uptick if he actually implements this and everyone will declare their purchases at the border like they are supposed to.
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give Trump more money.
A payment has been demanded.
Unfortunately, APPL can’t agree,
because then there will be more
payments, whether Trump agrees
to stop demanding more and more
payments, or not.
This is what the ruling class wants,
or it wouldn’t be happening.
Because they'd need to not only build their facility, but the factory that makes the frames, screens, screws, and every other component too.
And the tooling.
First you increase manufacturing. Then you build your own product. Then and only then do you consider tariffs.
This is pure oppositional defiance economics. He's doing it because the economists are telling him not to.
So sorry Tim. Maybe an additional really expensive gift will fix your trump issues. A plane perhaps or a free Apple Watch?
https://x.com/i/grok/share/9r2q2G9hQllIgwgqgVx6yblT3
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5403514/tariff-made-in-usa-label-texas-experiment
More than 25 percent if made in the US.
He’s now selectively imposing taxes on American companies.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
Pay more, and you'll have more to pay still.
Or fight back?
I strongly suspect that this is just more performative politics.