Trump tariffs aren't predictable, not for four years, or one, or one month, or one day. At best you move final assembly to a country with lower tariffs. If you hit all countries making Y, then you can force things here, at a very high cost, though that still takes years...
It is all about the exemptions and not adding tariffs to the coffers. Cook buys a few hundred million of the traitor's untraceable grifting bitcoins, and bingo home free. Never about anything but the grift.
Someone explained to Dummy that he was just moving business from Apple, an American company — *the* American company? — whose phones are made in China, to Samsung, a Korean company, whose phones where made in South Korea.
The worst parts of what Lutnick said were his clueless comments about manufacturing and workers. You need skilled labor to make Apple products, and the machines to support them. I knew many such people when I worked in factories, now all dead, skills lost. Lutnick is delusional.
The billionaires pay no tariffs. But everyone else still does. That billionaires $$ will never trickle down thanks to Republicans. Big money is the deep state. They control Republicans. Wonder their bitting.
But the tariffs would bring manufacturing to the U.S. and people will be happy screwing the lil screws in the iPhones! This administration is the worst in history! Let’s take the dumbest people to run our country…
You need to listen to the different messaging between Lutnick and Bessent. Lutnick is tariffs. Bessent is economy for sure so far. I’m guessing Tim Cook got the ear of Bessent first. I’ve been waiting for this. All small businesses are just screwed in this tariff nightmare. Sad
As either things blow up in his face, someone explains to him the damage he caused in 3 year old level terms or someone drops the bribe in his offshore account he changes course.
Is Taiwan still investing? They initially announced the investment under Biden because of the CHIPS Act but I thought Trump was freezing those incentives.
And it could all change by lunchtime. He’ll screw Tim Cook again if he decides to, for any reason at all. I’m just amazed how many “smart” people are still conned by Trump.
Now Nintendo needs to sue Trump for unfair trade practices due to selective enforcement of tariffs.
Nintendo was intending on releasing new games, including for their new Switch 2 console. The Nintendo Switch 2 was slated to launch on June 5th including a bundle w/Mario Kart World is now paused
We can try to explain the market surges and the tankings, and REPEAT from now until ?!
Volatility, uncertainty, instability…
Because: WH malignant narcissist’s dementia and insanity, etc.
He’s not mad, dementia, etc. Please quit with this. He’s the front man for a wild mob of different interest groups. Some demand tax breaks, some want Christo-fascism, some want Mars, some it’s private prisons in El Salvador because they’re truly fuckin’ evil. He can’t juggle all these scripts.
The man is an empty vessel, so many factions with different agendas in his orbit, that work to influence him. He is also an old aged narcissist and suffers from old age impairments, makes it easier to manipulate him.
I totally agree, never a smart guy, always vulnerable to flattery, now old, loving these final years.
The world, though, we will not forget his kiss my ass insults, the peasants garbage, the bullying on Greenland & Canada, Panama. Whoever is fluffing him, god save your souls. The rest of us won’t.
I see a lot of deep planning in taking out your judiciary, your federal government, schools, universities, the market manipulation to enrich his pals. If you wanted to send the the US back to feudalism, what would anyone do different? He is NOT insane. But he is def not the architect of all this.
I know what’s going on in his orbit, the deliberate dismantling and destruction of our government. He lied when he said he knew nothing of Project 2025, of course. There’s method to his madness. He told us that he’s a stable genius: absurd then and now. Believe what you want re. his mental faculties
Parts of apple’s phones and computers are manufactured in America and shipped to China for assembly. That will be subject to china’s us tariffs. So apple would need to shift all its production to China to avoid the tariffs completely. Lolz,😂
About that wage... These are new service industry positions that will be tipped by managers based on their experience during the shift. Don't worry, there will be no taxes on gratuity!
Global Foundries, which took over a number of IBM facilities, including one near me, makes chips in the US, but the owning entity is not American. I'm guessing that's why they don't count.
I want to know what Tim Cook agreed to concerning our devices and networks. Apple had previously supported privacy and intellectual freedom. Will they going forward? Or will the famous 1984 commercial be undone?
I hope all these CEOs that helped the orange menace back into office realize that people can't buy their products if we don't have jobs or are dumped in a gulag. Tariffs are just part of this nightmare.
Very soon we are going to be in negative tariff revenue. Trump always has been all hat and no horse. Bully keeps getting whacked and caves. Putin plays him just like the sucker at the poker table who doesn’t know he’s it.
"Mr. President, sir, it's not that your tariffs aren't an absolutely genius idea, sir, it's just that the world isn't ready for such a genius idea right now. Sir."
They kissed the ring. If Apple was smart they would get out of the hardware business that they are subpar in and lease their IOS the way Google does with Android. Many phones, built by different manufacturers in various countries.
Intel would be to differ. Anybody remember the CHIPS and Science Act? Actual action to help US industry build these things in the US. Passed under Biden. Trump just undid the progress under that bill and damaged companies like Intel.
Somebody settle something for me. I just re-watched Don’t Look Up the other night. My husband thought that they were spoofing Elon. I say it was Tim Apple. Yes? No?
Yeah - with everything else still spendy as f*ck, will that matter all that much? An iPhone and Samsung Galaxy make for pi$$-poor (and awfully spendy) nutrition
Such a brilliant, GREAT, one might say, way to develop and implement policy affecting billions of people and trillions of dollars. Stable genius indeed
China produces around 90% of the world's rare earths, a group of 17 elements used across the defense, electric vehicle, energy and electronics industries. The United States has only one rare earths mine and most of its supply comes from China.
nope. Not everywhere. Where I live the people organizing them declared they will be doing a silent protest with no signs for people to drop off "community aid" for some local groups...this is a 4 hour drive into the middle of nowhere, where nobody lives, instead of doing a protest.
Oh sorry, this isn't just poor Apple. Tariffing computers and smartphones hits Gens Z &Alpha hard, both for their education and livelihoods. Next up, farmer. Trump will cave (but make it look like a win which will look ridiculous to us center liberals but 'oh isn't he a genius' from his followers)
I bought a tricked out MacBook Pro yesterday to avoid the tariff. Had no interest in paying 7500 for a laptop. Now I feel a little swindled. Could have bought stock. I think that was the plan to tye extent there was one. Goose spending by threat of tariff and bait and switch for shares. Fuckers.
Apple has been shifting product manufacturing and assembly to other countries, including India and Brazil. If they get hit with a big China tariff, the means are already there to shut Chinese production down completely. I worried about this and nearly upgraded my phone as a precaution but I'll wait.
When we shout “I want my money’s worth” they gut all the programs that serve the public interest. When Cook says “I want my money’s worth” he get an exemption from tariffs.
Tim Apple has apparently threatened to pull their products from the American market altogether (including updates to existing ones) stating, “It’s a big world.”
Plus Microsoft is trying to force everyone to buy a new computer just to run Windows 11. They won't allow installs on most older computers. There are ways around it but most people won't do it.
Somebody explained to Trump that we couldn't make these things without the minerals in China. Also, the CHIP Act under Biden was bringing semiconductor manufacturing to the US, and Trump ended it.
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Why choose? Both are true.
This is just extortion.
Do republican want to go down in history as the saviors of our democracy or the ones who helped it die!
Gee, the stock markets were closed and Trump’s family and billionaire inside traders didn’t even get a chance to cash in.
Automation is only as good as the suppliers, drawings, speed of assembly, etc.
Tiny hands and crap labor as all work protections gone
Who needs Bangladesh?
We have... Texas 🙃
Contract complete.
(And none moved back to USA.)
I mean, doesn’t it all make much more sense if you just think of it as a large scale set up for ongoing bribery?
(As an American, I can say this. 40% of American adults are considered obese thanks to all of the crap food, I’m sure.)
We've been working feverishly the past 5 years, with Taiwan's help, to get a huge TSMC plant opened in the US.
That plant when completed may be *extremely* strategically important, because it will allow us to create 1>
So it appears the Trump MO currently is do big stupid thing and then walk it back piece by piece as your idiocy is pointed out to you.
Find your local resistance.
This isn't a full list and I don't recommend any one group or style of resistance.
Do some research, ask questions and stay informed. You are not alone, trust.
https://fivebyfifteen.org
https://handsoff2025.com
https://Fiftyfifty.one
https://indivisible.org
#RESIST
I wonder what Steve Jobs would have done.
The American consumer is cooked, the dollar is cooked, and small businesses are cooked.
That’s what Trump and their MAGA voters told me when they voted for him the 3rd time. 🙄
All the incels working at the Apple orchard screwin away and now another lost opportunity.
Sure, it will help his company (I’ve forgotten which company Tim Apple represents) but it will also help consumers.
I’m starting to wish the stock market had sent Trump his cut…
Which, to my way of thinking, is much worse than simply being stupid - because they're smart enough to know better, but chose to be that way.
Nintendo was intending on releasing new games, including for their new Switch 2 console. The Nintendo Switch 2 was slated to launch on June 5th including a bundle w/Mario Kart World is now paused
Volatility, uncertainty, instability…
Because: WH malignant narcissist’s dementia and insanity, etc.
The world, though, we will not forget his kiss my ass insults, the peasants garbage, the bullying on Greenland & Canada, Panama. Whoever is fluffing him, god save your souls. The rest of us won’t.
Give relief to corporations limiting the cost increase of tariffs, thus negating the point of the tariff as a tool to change corporate behavior.
Corporations raise prices anyway while pocketing the savings.
But more like “Tim Apple paid the bribe.”
How do you small businesses feel?
A little left out??
Never mind. I went ahead bought a new one I didn’t really need yet on Wednesday. 🙄
By the short & curlies ??
Just wanted to use, Tim Apple, again.
Typical Trump - Help his billionaire friends while screwing everyone else.
Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff?st=Xzf66V
KISS HIS ASS!
They’re also being exempted.
Of course the crypto/AI guys pushed to have exemptions for their specific hardware needs.
Imagine your crypto hardware costs just doubled due to tariffs.
Did we just will him into being?
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn't stop to think if we should.
China produces around 90% of the world's rare earths, a group of 17 elements used across the defense, electric vehicle, energy and electronics industries. The United States has only one rare earths mine and most of its supply comes from China.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/china-hits-back-at-us-tariffs-with-export-controls-on-key-rare-earths/ar-AA1CjJ7P?ocid=nl_article_link
I feel like I'm screaming into the void.
🙄
Presidency by EXTORTION.
Nice country you have there.
Would be a shame if we crippled it.
Fuck this FELON.
Elect a convicted felon expect corruption.
Or make up an export tax for products coming to America?
Happy to help.
Gurl! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣