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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,349 posts)
Sun May 25, 2025, 06:47 PM May 2025

Trump's relationship with Tim Apple devolves

President Trump’s relationship with Apple and CEO Tim Cook has devolved in recent weeks as the president has ramped up pressure on the iPhone maker over its overseas manufacturing.

Trump threatened Friday to put a 25 percent tariff on Apple products if the company failed to move more of its manufacturing back to the U.S., just weeks after publicly scolding Cook over his firm’s reliance on Indian manufacturing.

The tariff threat marks a sharp break from the more cordial relationship that Cook managed to maintain with Trump in his first term, when he scored a key tariff exemption.

“It puts Apple with their back against the wall a little because India was going to be the go-to to navigate the China tariffs,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said, adding, “This is putting Apple in an almost impossible spot.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apple-relationship-devolves-threats-160000632.html

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Trump's relationship with Tim Apple devolves (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 OP
So..a new target for the bully. Deuxcents May 2025 #1
Your subject line made me laugh 😆 underpants May 2025 #2
i agree. AllaN01Bear May 2025 #3
💡 underpants May 2025 #7
hem. AllaN01Bear May 2025 #4
A 25 percent tariff would raise the price of an iPhone 16 Pro Max boonecreek May 2025 #5
Aww and Tim Cook donated One Million Buck$ to Cha May 2025 #6
Money well spent! boonecreek May 2025 #8
If you mean as in.. Cha May 2025 #9

AllaN01Bear

(28,474 posts)
4. hem.
Sun May 25, 2025, 06:58 PM
May 2025

send your factory to china, we must modernize china. wal mart furthers this by buying almost or dead old brands and didnt want to pay american wages . then the steel people sent steel production to china . u get whatt u pay for and you sir , put on the tarrifs . china didnt.

boonecreek

(1,364 posts)
5. A 25 percent tariff would raise the price of an iPhone 16 Pro Max
Sun May 25, 2025, 07:42 PM
May 2025

to $1311.25, at least at Consumer Cellular. Meanwhile, manufacturing them here
would raise the price to $3,000 and above. As usual, he has no clue how things work.

Cha

(316,435 posts)
9. If you mean as in..
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:00 PM
May 2025

Down the Drain.. then Yes!

.. all the big Techs donated.. some more than others. It looks like Cook's was one of the lower ones If not the Lowest. . Could that be the Problem?

I sure don't want iPhone to get pricier So Fuck Off Mump as usual.

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