These companies have money, and power. This is not capitalism, it’s communism. While I get they have their own agenda and interests, imagine if they started fighting back too.
And the tyrant telling universities how to run their schools, extorting law firms for loyalty and free legal work to support his fascist policies, telling TV networks to censor news he doesn't like, and telling our allies how to run their countries. https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lptm5nfb5k2v
So now businesses (customers) will be paying an extortion tax because a product is made elsewhere & imported? Aren’t we (cough, cough) already paying a tariff on that Apple product in the first place? I’d ask what happened to free enterprise, but I believe that I know the answer.
We’ve got a few
options, so pick a few if not all. 1) Contact Apple & let them know that we want to have their products to be made wherever they currently are made. 2) Tell Apple not to give in or those Androids are looking a whole lot nicer. 3) Write/call/email our senators & representatives & complain LOUDLY.
They could try telling him how to run; a country, an economy, a health service ( if America had one), an immigration and border control and last but not least a golf club.
I will never understand how scared everyone is of this incredibly weak, pathetic POS. NEVER!!! They were all there for a minute after Jan. 6th. Should have cuffed him then and there.
So they can pay 30% on the parts and materials and assemble it using more expensive labour and overheads, or build them abroad and pay 25% making them more cheaply and make a loss either way...or JUST NOT SELL THEM IN AMERICA ANYMORE.
If you want an iPhone you'll have to import it from the EU lolll
I would be looking forward to the rest of the world telling drumpf to fuck off, cutting the US off from all trade, if I didn’t know how much misery it’s going to cause for the people who can least afford it. But I think it’s something this country has to go through to wake TF up.
He acts on the supposition that he doesn’t need laws or governance other that his own, highly-personalized demands, as he believes he can achieve compliance by intimidation. He has been successful with those eager to comply.
But in the end, the choice of whether to be intimidated is not his.
For those MAGA nuts that cheer this on, I wonder if they know they support socialism. They probably do because they support domestic terrorism and violating the constitution.
Idea: Apple makes a "Trump phone" in the U.S. and charges $3,000. Also keep making phones as usual that cost $1,000. See which one sells better, even with the 25% tax.
I do not think this man is mentally stable. It’s not just he has an idea stuck in his head which is not based in reality or that he doesn’t understand basic economics. I think it’s way more than that, though those are also true - he’s extremely mentally unstable.
Whelp! Now the iPhone’s prices are going to be higher than normal- b/c who pays for #tariffs? Say it with me: WE DO!
Wait!! This will be a boon for Android phones!!
@jillwine-banks.bsky.social Apple, pretty specific, saves the shotgun approach to shorting stocks. Wonder who had the pregame heads up this time? Everyone in the administration? Or just the cabinet billionaires. Someone needs to take a look at this, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social if you're listening.
Wedbush Securities analysts found that shifting iPhone production to the United States would take up to 10 years and increase the phone cost to about $3500 per unit.
This is what these people fucking voted for. This old, idiotic, wannabe dictator som of a bitch who is active destroying every fucking thing he touch on purpose because he have no idea what the fuck he is doing
REPORTER: "Today you posted on social media that Apple must pay a 25% tariff to the US for iPhones imported from China or India. That is an admission that you've been blatantly lying for years about who pays tariffs. Why have you been lying?"
(Hypothetical reporter who actually does his/her job.)
I have said this before and I continue to believe, Trump is using on again, off again tariffs to manipulate the stock market to benefit insider trading. Someone is being tipped off to these moves.
I seriously don’t understand all these billionaires bending the knee. (Except Musk, he’s just a prick.) They have enough money for themselves and descendants for centuries to come.
Why not just tell the monster to fuck off.
Pay the tariffs and jack up phone prices to $3,000 because of it. Let's see what the American public has to say about Trump's tariffs then! And if Apple's stock tanks because they don't sell any iPhones, so does everybody's 401k! Trump single-handedly is destroying our country.
If an iPhone is made in the US, you can increase that purchase price four fold. US labor is far more expensive. Why is everything made overseas? Cause Americans want their cheap shit.
Taking management's side is what did in US labor rights and off shored jobs to places companies could pay pennies and make more obscene profits than they could if done in the US.
Labor is a commodity in a world economy. But, it started with Clinton let China into the WTO. Corporate America cheered. With USD hegemony, we MUST export dollars or it all collapses. Triffin was correct. And, it ends badly.
@tim_cook
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
So, after an evening with foreign investors in the crypto scheme he manipulated the market down so they can buy low. Expect to see a 180 in a couple of days and a big sell off for his friends 🤑
Except with the bond market like it is, and the last couple days of trading the market is already down. After the credit downgrade and tariffs hitting shelves, I don't think his market manipulation game is going to work the same this time.
I think he is constipated - to many toilet posts today! And all of them with the signature typos, wrong math and trademark ignorance we have come to expect from the US president.
so, trump knows he cannot impose a tariff on an individual company...this is performance to try to manipulate the market....negotiation by bullying? why do the pay him any attention?
He's such an embarrassing, idiotic person. He's making our country look as petty and mean and stupid as he is. I'll never forgive anyone, including the media, our elected reps, and anyone else who enables him. They deserve to drown in shame and regret and be hounded for the rest of their days.
I repeat: There is no such thing as a "tariff" on a specific company. Tariffs apply to categories of goods. What he is talking about is a personal retribution - nothing else. The word "tariff" shouldn't even be associated with this.
Hey, at least he’s admitting that American companies pay the tariffs, not foreign counties! Still a total disaster, but slightly more factual comments. 🙈
There's a world in which this all ends with him screaming at people breaking down the door to the Oval Office that he's going to tariff them and their families.
That is actually pretty funny. In their quest to defend capitalism and freedom they ended up ruining both. Also, what happened to all the guns they needed to defend against a fascist government takeover? They have that now but no one is out there with their guns.
Yes, that too would be me knee jerk reaction, but Trump has a hundred ways he could make Apple’s life difficult. Best to nod your head and say nothing, but do nothing to obey him.
I would love to see a major company have the balls to do this to see what happens. I think it would help cut to the chase of discovering Trump's authoritarian intentions.
When the product will be 75% more expensive if made in the USA, I think the consumer will prefer to pay the tariffs and only have a 25% more expensive item.
Which is why blanket tariffs don’t work!
Iphones made in China get a 25% tariff.
Samsung phones made in Vietnam get a 10% tariff.
Massive advantage being given to a South Korean business compared to an American one.
It’s likely more productive to not think in terms of the normal guardrails, and more in the context of “How does Trump stay in the news” and “How does he punish his political enemies”
He has no fkn right telling Apple where to manufacture their phones. This needs to stop. His new tool to blackmail business/countries are tariff threats. He needs to be stopped!
Government telling corporations what to do is a hallmark of fascism. These tech bros don't get that fascism isn't on their side. They have turned themselves from self-styled Masters of the Universe to Donald Trump's toadies.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the President can only put tariffs in place for very specific reasons and circumstances. Not because he’s a bully and doesn’t like how a company is being run.
I'm encouraged by our former allies doing everything they can to circumvent the tariffs. This country needs to feel enough pain to ensure this never happens again.
I guess he doesn't realise he can't tariff companies or a specific product, he'll have to tariff Indian tech exports. Modi might have a few thoughts on that.
DonOLD’s at it again! Trump’s trying to find a way for his family to be paid under the table, by huge corporations . . . how do you think Barron ‘Lurch’ Trump had a net worth of $80 million while he was a junior in high school?
He just wakes up and picks something to outrage people everyday. He wants a new CEO or somehow wants Musk to get something - take the hit let them tariff it.
Betting people complained at his crypto dinner last night that they have lost millions. He’s done this so the markets will tank and he thinks people will pile into his coin as a safe bet. This guy is so fucking dangerous now.
I keep telling people that Apple will be hiring iPhone assemblers and people look at me like I’m nuts. Does anyone you know in the US want these jobs? No!!!!!
Everyone needs to give him the one finger salute 🖕 all day, every day. He is deserving of nothing more. Show him no, zero respect. He does not deserve it, has never earned it. He's a lifelong loser people. Nothing more. A big mouthed lout on and ugly body. Boorish and childish.
QUESTION FOR TRUMP: IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK TO BE ABLE TO WAKE UP ONE SINGLE FUCKING DAY WITHOUT HEARING SOME BATSHIT LUNACY COMING FROM YOU THAT IS TANKING THE MARKETS? WE HAVE LIVES TO LIVE AND ARE SICK AND FUCKING TIRED OF WATCHING OUR RETIREMENT DISAPPEAR. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WE WILL GET RID OF YOU
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend after all.
#ImpeachTrump #NoFascism
We’ve got a few
Idiot.
WTK kind of world are we living in?
Fas… something…
If you want an iPhone you'll have to import it from the EU lolll
https://thehumanaiview.blog/2025/05/26/part-1-the-price-tag-on-made-in-the-usa/
https://thehumanaiview.blog/2025/05/25/sunday-wrap-up-oversight-tax-battles-and-the-shape-of-things-to-come/
But in the end, the choice of whether to be intimidated is not his.
Wait!! This will be a boon for Android phones!!
It’s real easy.
Dear Leader, fuck off.
(Hypothetical reporter who actually does his/her job.)
Why not just tell the monster to fuck off.
#idiot
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
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-donates-1-million-trump-inauguration-1236265079/
Maybe Apple should offer Trump to give him a 10% cut of everything.
That's the way Putin got so rich.
All this tweet was, was Trump changing the news cycle away from his corrupt grift dinner. 🤔
Stop falling for these basic tactics.
Right now it seems their only use for the constitution is toilet paper.
I’m jealous of my cat. She has slept peacefully through most of this timeline.
https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/apple-foxconn-1-5-billion-investment-chennai-iphone-plant-trump-warning-125052300334_1.html
No one will be able to afford their products.
As with most things.
Can the president impose a tariff on the US?
This is extortion.
Well… okay, then.
Which is why blanket tariffs don’t work!
Don’t confuse the issue by pretending Apple, or any other business, should be free to do whatever the hell the oligarchy running it wants to do.
He’s handing Apple a whale of a lawsuit against the government
Samsung phones made in Vietnam get a 10% tariff.
Massive advantage being given to a South Korean business compared to an American one.
Us great?
Greedy CEO’s are NOT going to eat the tax they must pay to OrangeHitler’s tariff (TAX) coffers.
The authoritarian creed:
Do as I say, not as I do;
what’s okay for me, is not for you.
Still stupid tho
That story of the scorpion and the frog he used to crow on about at his rallies? He's the scorpion.
The rest is a circus to keep us occupied.