Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn't build iPhones in America

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toofy · 1d ago

he’ll say three entirely different things on this within 24 hours im sure.

it’s likely not even legal for a president to do this to a single product or a single company.

but, if this is the precedent he wants to push to normalize, i say go for it, it’ll be kind of interesting to see which individual company’s products are targeted when a progressive inevitably takes power.

it seems to me all of the things he’s normalizing will be comical to watch repeated once a progressive candidate comes along who realizes progressive voters crave red meat too.

MBCook · 1d ago

There is no illegal anymore.

palata · 1d ago

He has proven, over and over, that he threatens to put extreme tariffs and then rolls back. I can't believe for one second that this is more than a threat.

sylware · 1d ago

Big Tech will outplay him. They are doing that to the whole world.

Will he be the first US president to actually "fix" Big Tech?

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Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn't build iPhones in America

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