Apple CEO Tim Cook and U.S. President Donald Trump to Tour Apple Operations in Texas

Apple CEO Tim Cook and United States President Donald Trump will soon tour facilities in Texas where Apple products are made, reports Reuters.

The goal of the trip is to showcase companies that "keep jobs in America." Both Apple and the White House declined to comment on the upcoming tour.

The planned journey comes as Apple is seeking tariff waivers on imports from China that include iPhone components, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, and more.

Apple in September said that its newest Mac Pro will be manufactured in Texas at the same Austin facility where the existing ‌Mac Pro‌ has been made since 2013.

According to Apple, the new ‌Mac Pro‌ includes components designed, developed, and manufactured by more than a dozen American companies. Suppliers span states that include Arizona, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont.

Apple has pledged to invest $350 billion in the United States economy by 2023, and last year, spent more than $60 billion with 9,000 domestic suppliers across the country.

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CarlJ

4 weeks ago

So I can write, "a smart and powerful businessman, and an idiot who ruins everything he touches, tour a factory together", and people can decide which they think is which.

Rating: 13 Votes

ThomasJL

4 weeks ago

Tim Cook doesn’t care about Americans having jobs. If Cook really cared about Americans having jobs, then Apple wouldn’t have hired the vast majority of its H-1B workers instead of Americans.

Rating: 10 Votes

GermanSuplex

4 weeks ago

Should be fun hearing Tim Apple explain that a server isn't the kind who brings you a big mac and a diet coke.

Rating: 9 Votes

thadoggfather

4 weeks ago

Why is Tim Cook associating with Trump? I don’t like it.

Good grief. Love trumps hate

He isn’t associating with him at all. Cook is a leftist globalist. They’re literally touring a facility / having some PR / maybe a few private comments. On a political spectrum there is a wide gap

Rating: 9 Votes

Steve686

4 weeks ago

Why is Tim Cook associating with Trump? I don’t like it.

Because he isn’t a weak minded boycotter of anyone or anything that offends him.

He runs a multimillion dollar company and to think he should hide his head in a hole is seriously narrow sighted and childish.

Rating: 6 Votes

cuencap

4 weeks ago

Tim Cook is pure garbage, a Republican through-and-through who will only break party ranks when something negatively affects his company’s ability to exploit overseas labor. History will not be kind to him or anyone seen currying favor with Donald Trump. And the Texas factory is certainly a non-union factory, I would expect nothing less.

Tim Cook is a republican? A homosexual republican that donates to Democratic candidates? Try again...
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Regardless of your thoughts on Trump and Cook as individuals, this marketing tour is what America needs. When it comes to large companies with manufacturing influence, Boeing punched themselves in the eye, the auto industry appears old and tired from the outside (while new companies like Tesla constantly get beat up by the public,) and most other electronic companies have very little pull in the US. If you read the headlines you would think all jobs are going away while America struggles to keep its head above water.

I'm happy to see two polar opposites get together - albeit for a photo op - and at least discuss their differences. Too bad a large portion of America disagrees with this and would rather hurl insults and judge each other. #cancelculture

Rating: 5 Votes

ryanmcv

4 weeks ago

I'm sure this won't be awkward at all.

Why would it be awkward? Tim Cook has done an excellent job establishing a working relationship with Trump, even though they probably disagree on almost every political issue. You should watch this video by CNBC.

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Rating: 5 Votes

jlocker

4 weeks ago

People forget history Ross Perot said in 1992 nafta would be bad for the USA. We lost hundred of thousand of manufacturing jobs all the media did was make fun of him and his charts while running for president. Other countries have taken advantage of us for 30 year. Why do we have to be number 2? I like making a higher wage so I can buy the things that I like! other countries do now.

Rating: 5 Votes

rictus007

4 weeks ago

What about moving production of Apple products to Ukraine.... Trump now how to make deals with Ukrainians

Rating: 4 Votes