Donald Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House Thursday, and the president reported that the iPhone maker had decided to stop the construction of two factories in Mexico and instead build them here in the United States.
The tariffs are beautiful, the president told reporters:
Tim Cook… from Apple. He's investing hundreds of billions of dollars. …I hope he's announced it. Hope I didn't announce this, but what the hell? All I do is tell the truth. That’s what he told me. Now he has to do it, right?
… but he's investing hundreds of billions of dollars, and others too, we’re going to have a lot of chip makers coming in, a lot of automakers coming in. They stopped two plants in Mexico, they were under construction, starting construction. They just stopped them, they're going to build here instead because they don't want to pay the tariffs. The tariffs are amazing.
…I got myself in a lot of trouble—I said it's my favorite word in the dictionary, the word “tariff.” It's such a beautiful word and the fake news killed me. They said, what about love, what about God, what about family? And they said, I'm in trouble. I said, so now it's my fourth favorite word. [Laughter].
I said, love, God, family, a couple of others I could add there too, but it's my fourth favorite word.
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It remains to be seen which exact plants Trump is referring to:
It’s not clear what manufacturing facilities Trump was referencing, though Foxconn Technology Group — which manufactures the company’s iPhones — already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has announced plans to expand its footprint there.
As we’ve reported, tech execs are singing a whole different tune in Trump 2.0's term after many of them engaged in censorship campaigns the first time around that effectively worked to throttle the conservative press and social media influencers while pimping the Democrats’ message. Now Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has visited Mar-a-Lago to smoke the peace pipe, X owner Elon Musk runs the DOGE, and Cook is busy playing nice at the White House.
He has reason to bend the knee:
Cook is among the tech industry leaders who have sought to nurture a close relationship with the president since his reelection, attending his inauguration last month and traveling to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida during the presidential transition.
Cook’s company risks being caught in the middle of an escalating trade fight between the US and China, with Trump’s 10% tariff on Chinese-made goods posing a challenge for Apple as it seeks to address sluggish iPhone sales. China is weighing a probe into Apple’s policies and the fees it charges app developers. China is Apple’s biggest manufacturing hub, while the US is its largest market.
It’s just more winning by Donald Trump, and contrary to what the mainstream press will tell you, it isn’t getting old, and very few—if any—Republicans regret their vote.