“President Donald Trump on Tuesday said in an interview that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has committed to build three big manufacturing plants in the U.S., a surprising statement that would help fulfill his administration’s economic goal of reviving American manufacturing,” Tripp Mickle and Peter Nicholas report for The Wall Street Journal. “Mr. Trump, in a 45-minute interview with The Wall Street Journal, said Mr. Cook promised him Apple would build ‘three big plants, beautiful plants.’ Mr. Trump didn’t elaborate on where those plants would be located or when they would be built.”
“‘I spoke to [Mr. Cook], he’s promised me three big plants — big, big, big,’ Mr. Trump said as part of a discussion about business-tax reform and business investment. ‘I said you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I won’t consider my administration an economic success. He called me, and he said they are going forward,'” Mickle and Nicholas report. “Mr. Trump’s comments were some of the first he has made regarding Apple manufacturing since assuming the presidency and revives pressure on the world’s largest company by market value to move manufacturing operations from Asia to the U.S.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Via Hon Hai (Foxconn), the Softbank fund, and/or other contract manufacturers like Flex (Austin, TX) and Quanta (Fremont, CA)?
SEE ALSO:
Apple supplier Foxconn nearing decision to build plant in Wisconsin to produce display panels – July 25, 2017
Made in America iPhones, after all? Apple supplier Foxconn considering iPhone plant in Wisconsin – June 15, 2017
China Premier Li visits Apple supplier Foxconn after CEO’s meeting with President Trump – May 10, 2017
Apple’s top manufacturing partner to meet with U.S. President Trump today – April 27, 2017
Apple could help Westinghouse in completing new nuclear plants – April 17, 2017
Apple may bid for big stake in Toshiba – April 17, 2017
Apple supplier Sharp may begin building $7 billion U.S. plant in within months as Japan PM meets President Trump – February 8, 2017
Foxconn-Sharp considering LCD plant in USA, plans in response to President-elect Trump’s ‘Make in America’ call – January 13, 2017
With President Trump soon to take office, Apple looks to boost its ‘Made in America’ credentials – January 10, 2017
Make America Insanely Great Again: Apple seeks to expand Made in USA manufacturing – January 9, 2017
Apple invests $1 billion in SoftBank’s massive tech fund; may help company get in President Trump’s good graces – January 4, 2017
Apple in talks to invest $1 billion in SoftBank tech fund – December 13, 2016
Softbank to invest $50 billion in the U.S., create 50,000 new tech jobs after meeting with President-elect Trump – and Apple supplier Foxconn is in on the deal – December 6, 2016
President-elect Trump invites tech leaders to roundtable in Manhattan next week – December 6, 2016
President-elect Trump tells Apple CEO Tim Cook that he’d like to see Apple make products in the U.S. – November 23, 2016
President-elect Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook called him after election victory – November 22, 2016
Apple could make iPhones in the U.S.A. under President Trump, sources say – November 17, 2016
Japan’s Softbank just became one of Apple’s most important suppliers – July 18, 2016
Why do people listen to the Liar-In-Chief? Oh right because all you guys love seeing him and Repubs gut the social safety nets that the US has put up for 75 years.
If this was true you’d think Cook and Apple would have put this out quickly. We’ll see what they have to say.
Trump also promised Carrier and Ford factory workers continued employment in the USA. Unfortunately the jobs went to Mexico anyway.
Super job wasting money on the useless wall and increased border guards. Don’t we all feel safer now that Pres Donny is on top of it? Or is he? Hard to tell when he’s golfing at his own resorts every weekend being waited on by people with immigration papers. Fact.
What fact? You’re unattributed opinion?
Yes, we feel much safer now. I do know the numbers of illegal crossings under President Trump are down well over 50%.
Do you know the facts or just spouting partisan BS? …
Don’t confuse the issue with facts, Realist. They have become irrelevant.
The Defense Department announced a six-month review of transgender members of the military earlier this month. They said it would take at least that long to assemble and analyse actual facts, as distinct from either liberal or conservative opinions. The study had not even properly gotten underway before the President announced a total ban this morning on transgender individuals serving in any capacity. The ban was announced on Twitter, apparently with no prior notice to the Pentagon. You might debate the outcome, but the process shows complete contempt for evidence-based decision making.
That is a fact, just as is the reality that Trump Resorts has applied for many visas so they can hire foreign workers, or the reality that most Trump and Ivanka merchandise is manufactured overseas, or the reality that the renowned Carrier jobs went to Mexico anyway, or the reality that almost all of the financing for Trump Enterprises has come from foreign banks. “America First,” unless that conflicts with “Trump First.”
This is an Administration driven by the gut feelings of a man who has for 70 years shown complete contempt for facts when they conflict with his opinions. For example, the fact that it would be easier for Apple to negotiate a good deal for itself if the Federal Government wasn’t publicizing its private negotiations.
get ya’ some of this, ‘tards. 🙂
I like how Trump calls the plants “beautiful” even though he does not yet know how they will look.
About the plants: most probably they are not going to be Apple’s plants, they will be Foxconn’s plants, working for Apple.
Maybe just maybe seeing Americans working in a plant that would otherwise have gone to India, China, etc. in and of itself is beautiful enough? I think so.
Two semantic anal put downs of President Trump. Feel better now?
What’s important is the big picture progress Mr. Snarky Sniper …
I have no doubt that you and your fellow “Yes, We Can’t’ers” prefer the “beautiful” empty shells of factories from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Michigan.
You’re an idiot.
I did not say anything against the plants. Why I am an “idiot”?
A fake magazine cover is your response? Sad, sad, sad.
You are seriously running out of material.
Carrier?
Ford?
By Christmas, the core of the party will have begun the process of abandonment. They fear 2018 more than they fear Trump. As soon as the Koch figure out Trump can’t get their agenda passed, they will cease funding Republicans who back Trump. Money talks, Trump BS walks.
So sorry to read you are ignoring all the positive economic numbers under President Trump since he took office. I guess in a sense, although I’m up to speed, you are going to the same dry media well that locked you in and only reports FAKE NEWS.
Take solace in the fact you’re not the only Democrat clueless fool taken in on MDN …
Michaele is yet another neverTrumper that wanted Kasich as president. She ain’t real bright.
You’re right as usual. Just another dim bulb leftist that believes dogma and talking points are REAL ..,
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Do you prefer the “Madame President” edition of November 8th better?
bwahahahahaha
Trump made a lot of promises — like his great health care replacement plan. Can’t recall how that worked out.
Try to keep up, okay?
Obama’s legacy soon to be as empty as his suit.
Try to understand what really happened, OK?
The Senate voted by just one vote to start debating some bill that no one [yes no one] knows what it will say (and that vote was cast as a tie breaker by the VP so they couldn’t even get all the Republicans to vote for it). Why does no one know what it will say? Because the full bill has not been drafted.
It’s a LONG, LONG way from even getting to any kind of vote.
Try to keep up on what’s REALLY happening, OK?
As long as they can keep feedihng their illusions with tRump man meat, they feel good about themselves, losers that they are.
My mother and grandmother told me that when I grew up I would understand why our leaders decided to do what they did, even though it upset some people and harmed others.
My father and uncles deflected my questions, telling me I wouldn’t understand.
That’s when I began to understand.
You’re actually responding politely to this unhinged loser?
Must be another example of the protective female instinct substituting for logic and fairness …
Instincts don’t substitute for logic. Logic defends instincts. That’s human nature.
My grandmother counseled me that there are no losers (she called them unfortunates). All could be saved through grace, she insisted. The force of her personality imprinted itself upon me. My father muttered about losers (he called them bums) but he had less personality, and consequently I tend to take after her, more than him.
You had good caring teachers. My grandmother was more like you dad. I’m just not worthy and don’t suffer fools lightly. But I like your dad already… 😉
Obama had a 60 seat Senate majority and it took him 22 months to pass Obamacare. Trump is only six months in.
If I remember well, Obamacare was taken to townhalls across the country, and Democrats attempted to include Republicans in the process. The bill has been modified and watered down from its original form in order to compromise with those Republicans, to make it more acceptable. At the time, Republicans were in no mood for lawmaking.
Had Obamacare been pushed through in its original form, it would have been actually much more looking like the NHS (in the UK, or in Canada). Of course, Republicans would have hated it even more (although I can’t imagine how much more).
Obamacare was shared with constituents, tweaked, modified and adjusted, before it was adopted.
When Trumpcare (Ryancare?) was rammed through the Senate, nobody outside the chamber had a chance to read through any of it.
Both ways of passing laws are OK; I’m just not sure if taking 22 months to review, revise and pass a law is all that bad.
I just took a look at the history of ACA and how long it took, and your 22 months figure doesn’t appear correct.
Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, and the ACA was signed into law in march of 2010. The work on the bill didn’t start until February.
Moreover, there was a bipartisan group of senators that had 31 meetings to discuss the details of the bill, and the whole draft was essentially sent to townhalls around the country during the August recess.
In the end, it was adopted by a very strong majority in the senate (all 60 Democrats voted for it).
The concern today with the Trumpcare is that Republicans can’t even get all of their own to vote in favour of just discussing the possible future draft of a new health care bill (never mind the actual bill).
When we look at the two presidencies, and where we are on the timeline, in the Obama presidency, the bill has, by the end of July, already taken shape and was about to get on the road, to be discussed by the constituents in the townhalls. Meanwhile, in the Trump timeline, the first version of bill (that nobody saw until it was already voted on) failed to pass and has, for all intents and purposes, been abandoned. There is no modified version of the bill yet. The only thing that exists is the will of the senate to actually, at some future point, discuss any new health bill that may come up for discussion. And even that will was only officially sanctioned because a very sick senator flew from Arizona to cast his vote, and even that vote wasn’t enough, so the vice-president had to tip the scales…
Amazing how that fact is constantly lost among the President Trump haters …
Is it me or does Tom Cook have a look like “Ummm. . .Anyone know where the bathroom is? I got to go bad!!”
Who is “Tom Cook?”
I thought America was already great? But, maybe not if you live in Appalachia, rustbelt and southern states.
Thank you for showing your true ugly stereotype colors.
So the people in the three geographic regions you mention are sub human hayseeds and not worthy of any consideration or thinking in your neighborhood. How very understanding and human condition loving liberal you are.
Please keep it up at least until the 2020 presidential election …
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I live in Appalachia. Seen the subhuman living. The state legislatures in those states are to focused on cultural issues than preparing their citizens for the needs of the new 21 st century economy. Before that, I lived in the first world state of Minnesota. Day and night difference.
Its shocking to see the low star votes on your comment !
Its very telling of the attitude of the dogmatized losers ..
This group is acting like ignorant fools of the dark ages.
Wow… truly speechless..
And the same group consider themselves wise and openminded.. ( what a Joke )
To not know one does not know it is a horrible thing .
To not know one does not know, it is a horrible thing .
better said”
‘It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” … Ronald Reagan
I like that.. ( loved Ronald And i loved Bill too)
but… i rather not package all liberals in this group of Dogmatized Fools…
Even tough observing some behaviors have increasingly made it very hard for me to resist that.
I am nonpartisan …
Nevertheless … what i see going on now is nausatingly stupid and childish…. and is making me wonder and reasses some views.
First casualty> Mainstream media … bye forever manipulative fools. Keep on shooting yourselves in your own feet…
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won’t they be surprised when they find out the factorys are all robots.
Looks like ANOTHER win for Trump and the economy. Of course, people of the resistance wouldn’t know what’s happening because all they tune into is news that supports their own confirmation bias, because with the giant brains they have on their shoulders, there’s no need to acknowledge the truth about the good things Trump has done. They know better. They are smarter than Tump, who they call a “dummy” that somehow lucked into the presidency. They are the ones acting like a child, pointing fingers and whining and crying, but apparently they are the *smart* people. It’s sad. I am one of the voters the Democratic Party lost this past year, and they are doing nothing to get us back. Good luck trying to tear America down!!
And what is this winning? Appalachia is still shit. Rustbelt and southern states have yet to progress to the level of blue states that have transitioned well into the new 21 st century economy.
What win is this?
Trump Bashing is becoming overly nauseating and stupid……. give it a break… u know who you are…. dont act like 2 year old losers…
3.5 years and US will have another election right?
Sigh…
In the meanwhile
I think it’s fun, I know you and I BOTH enjoyed 8 years of Obashing 😉 I say let ’em have it. Keeps them distracted from doing anything.
Unless you’re one of the “new age special snowflake don’t say bad word that may trigger me” conservatives. Consjw for the win!
Agree completely.
I encourage debate on the merit of issues from both sides. Solutions to solving problems and not obsession with denigrating orange hair and hand size …
However, the sore losers have
This is something I like about you, Goeb. You encourage all sides to contribute, but hold all to the same high standard. Keep it up; we need balance now more than ever.
“Be yourself, and allow others to do the same, and clarity will be achieved: either war will ensue, or some accommodation will be reached. In any case, much unwarranted anxiety can be avoided. That is a definite social good.” — H. G. Wells
Thank you, herself. Means a lot and we just keep on plugin’ …
Its shocking to see the low star votes on your comment !
Its very telling of the attitude of the dogmatized losers ..
This group is acting like ignorant fools of the dark ages.
Wow… truly speechless..
And the same group consider themselves wise and openminded.. ( what a Joke )
To not know one does not know it is a horrible thing .
To not know one does not know, it is a horrible thing .
Funny, isn’t it?
No, pitiful is probably more accurate. Beyond being shocked with the desperate dim bulbs out there. Now out of power because of the PEOPLE (what irony), they always champion, except when it does not go their way and later called every ugly name in the book.
Besides, @herself wrote an excellent accurate account of how nerds have manipulated the voting in WordPress.
I pay as much attention to FAKE VOTES as I do to FAKE NEWS.
“And the same group consider themselves wise and openminded.. ( what a Joke )”
Amen, brother … 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What? The plants aren’t “amazing”, “the best ever built”?
and so energy effecient…. no one will have to pay for beautiful electricity again.
I don’t give a damn or believe anything from the moving mouth of “President Trump,” as you choose to refer to that treasonous POS Russian mental case. I’ll listen to what Tim says.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder”, But you can keep your Dr. $5,000 deductible. And I am paying $1,500 for SHIT Obamacare WTF?
G-Spank
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 – 5:17 pm · Reply
Looks like ANOTHER win for Trump and the economy. Of course, people of the resistance wouldn’t know what’s happening because all they tune into is news that supports their own confirmation bias, because with the giant brains they have on their shoulders, there’s no need to acknowledge the truth about the good things Trump has done. They know better. They are smarter than Tump, who they call a “dummy” that somehow lucked into the presidency. They are the ones acting like a child, pointing fingers and whining and crying, but apparently they are the *smart* people. It’s sad. I am one of the voters the Democratic Party lost this past year, and they are doing nothing to get us back. Good luck trying to tear America down!!
G-Spank
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 – 5:17 pm · Reply
Looks like ANOTHER win for Trump and the economy. Of course, people of the resistance wouldn’t know what’s happening because all they tune into is news that supports their own confirmation bias, because with the giant brains they have on their shoulders, there’s no need to acknowledge the truth about the good things Trump has done. They know better. They are smarter than Tump, who they call a “dummy” that somehow lucked into the presidency. They are the ones acting like a child, pointing fingers and whining and crying, but apparently they are the *smart* people. It’s sad. I am one of the voters the Democratic Party lost this past year, and they are doing nothing to get us back. Good luck trying to tear America down!!
G-Spank
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 – 5:17 pm · Reply
Looks like ANOTHER win for Trump and the economy. Of course, people of the resistance wouldn’t know what’s happening because all they tune into is news that supports their own confirmation bias, because with the giant brains they have on their shoulders, there’s no need to acknowledge the truth about the good things Trump has done. They know better. They are smarter than Tump, who they call a “dummy” that somehow lucked into the presidency. They are the ones acting like a child, pointing fingers and whining and crying, but apparently they are the *smart* people. It’s sad. I am one of the voters the Democratic Party lost this past year, and they are doing nothing to get us back. Good luck trying to tear America down!!
Is this a mantra or are you stuttering or what? Or is it more sinister, spanking the G? idk, carry on….
The benefit to the US environment when exporting manufacturing is that it also exports pollution: Air, soil, water.
Importing production capability will also import pollution no matter if management is totally the US or totally S. Korea with LG for example, so no wonder that Rightwingers in Congress are weakening environmental standards which lays the groundwork for increasing pollution output.
It’s a wash in the context of world-wide pollution.
No it is not a wash. Transportation costs are not parallel. The pollution that comes from wasteful manufacturing and distribution (made economical to the middle men and management who are happy to exploit workers who don’t have any legal recourse) is paid by the long term health of the ecosystem on which future generations depend. It really is that simple. If you want ALL children and grandchildren to have a better future than you, you vote for representatives who take a long term view and work for fair trade and economic justice. If you just are here to line your own pockets and fuck the rest of the world now and forever, you infest tech sites with pro-trump propaganda entirely devoid of any long term assessment of what great is and to whom.
you’re an idiot.
What is worse than being put on moderation by MDN? Drum Roll Please. Being turned in to Apple for trying to steal bottwipes identity through his AppleID.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, bottwipe has reported little old me to Apple for the above infraction. Or he said he did. Sitting in his basement in his pajamas. Mom upstairs. Maybe the mine will call tomorrow he thinks as bottwipe hunts down the mechanism to report me for hacking his iTunes/AppleID/iCloud account.
bottwipe. You honor me. I don’t know what to say.
You got botvinnik all wrong. If you had read his stuff long enough, you would have realised that he is just a grumpy old man (one of those “get off my lawn!” types).
When you realise that, you see how it explains a lot…
I’m beginning to think so. Like Clint Eastwood in that movie. It did take a minority to bring Clint around. LOL.
As a get off my lawn guy, I’m insulted comrade!
Those “get off my lawn” types respect the rule of law, served in the military, raised a family, devoted to wife, worked for a living and left the world a better place.
I’ll take them any day over you two Botty hating clowns … 💤
Way too many assumptions for a man you don’t know (other than “get off my lawn” personality). I know the two of you get along very well around here, and I never expressed my feelings for him (I hate nobody). My only thoughts about him are that he is an angry old man who longs for the days past when women, blacks and gays knew their place, when white men flew rockets to the moon and commanded the deserved respect, and when you could provide for a family with barely a high school diploma.
The world is very different from those times, and America has come a long way since then.
Good point and fair enough. I take back the hating comment referencing you alone, not the gutter mouth X-con.
“My only thoughts about him are that he is an angry old man who longs for the days past when women, blacks and gays knew their place, when white men flew rockets to the moon and commanded the deserved respect, and when you could provide for a family with barely a high school diploma.”
Now, tell me again who is making ASSUMPTIONS?
Ya know, you left wingers do this all the time. You accuse the other side of a violation and immediately come back and do exactly the same and think it is just dandy.
Hypocrisy.
You should remember that …
Over the past many years, botvinnik himself said those things. I’m not making anything up and certainly not assuming anything. I never saw him mention military service, or family. If you did, I’d like to see links, since I’m quite regular here and would have remembered.
This has been in the works way before Trump, he has nothing to do with it. But like everything else, Trump takes credit for what others have done. I hate the fact that Cook is letting himself be used to further his anti immigrant, anti gay, and anti environment agenda. All Cook is doing by continuing his affiliation with Trump, is tarnish the Apple brand.
I bet Steve Jobs would have run against him himself, at the last minute. Oh, one more thing! And he would have won by a landslide and brought everyone together under his supreme Steve-ness and made us all feel awesome. Sometimes he’d get mad, but we’d be okay with it. In the long run he’d create a future utopia. When he got really old we’d revere him, he and Johnny Carson cruising around on his yacht. Oh alternate reality. iSad
First, the plants will be robotic. It only makes sense. The average American worker is too expensive and low-skilled to hire that many of them. And the ones that will be hired will be the upper-tier, privileged, educated, younger workers – engineers and programmers, because they’ll be the ones that manage the robotics. Wealth and privilege will continue for the offspring of the wealthy and privileged, and only a few janitors will benefit from employment at these plants.
Second, Apple is only doing this as future-proofing against the North Korea threat. Most of Apple’s production is currently a relative stone’s-throw (or Nuke-lob) from the craziest despot on the planet. If I were Korea’s leader – crazy, and wanted to mess up the world, I’d drop my first attack (maybe even conventional armaments) on Apple’s manufacturing plants. And because of the number of innocent North Koreans who can’t be held responsible for their leader, and because of the risk that NK would follow up with a nuke somewhere (or sell/give one to some other terrorist organization, if they haven’t already), KJU knows there would be no retaliation attack. How does he know this? Because China and Russia are too scared of his proximity to help up try to shut him down, and the world hasn’t yet stepped up to end him, for all the rules he keeps breaking.
Three words: Mad Dog Mattis.
Irrelevant comment. He’s on a leash, where North Korea is concerned.
yeah, right, the Secretary of Defense is irrelevant in the defense of the United States.
braindead.
So Apple is going to stop outsourcing to Foxconn, who actually own the plants in China, and create three of their own plants (besides the automated plant making the so called Mac ‘Pro’) in the USA.
I Don’t Think So.
Meanwhile, Foxconn has made a nebulous promise to build one, single plant in the USA. That’s where we are. I don’t give a rat’s what fatuous fantasies of ‘alternative facts’ state otherwise. 😛
I can understand our “MDN Cons” support of GOP and certain conservative frameworks, but continued support of the current Executive Branch in the WH, is simply nuts or even egregious.
Get on your horse, reguarless of your political views and protect our county from traitorous acts and treason, fraternizing with the enemy during acts of espionage and spying.
You may think DT is your man, but he isn’t. He will stab you in the back, “figuratively,” as he is doing to his closest allies.
Stabbing in the back? More like out in front and out in the open.
No, IMHO I don’t believe that is what’s happening. President Donald J. Trump is in the process of a pure purge of the Washington swamp including career politicians in his own party.
The media doesn’t see it because all they are interested in is a daily drumbeat of negative news. They are also part of the swamp and gatekeepers defending the Washington status quo.
What the non supporters do not see, POTUS IS TRULY COMMITTED to MAGA … for EVERYBODY. 🇺🇸
I would like to believe you but some of these replacements are not MAGA material. I think MAGA is a placebo, meant to cover, the raping of our country, for oligarchs and Russia, of course.
You believe what you want to believe.
I believe this WH staff shakeup is a PURE PURGE from the former RNC chair establishment to a more disciplined decorated general to restore order and ferret out the leakers.
“I think MAGA ifs a placebo, meant to cover, the raping of our country, for oligarchs and Russia, of course.”
No raping of countries for anyone. Come on, sheesh. Please provide the evidence and I’ll save you the trouble. It does not exist. Perhaps you are confused and talking about the Clinton Foundation, uranium deal, et al.
The Don is already a billionaire and saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by not taking a salary. Means nothing to you?
In addition, the Trump White House has endured more illegal leaks in six months than the two previous administrations (16 years) combined.
The appointment of a self made businessman, ala Trump style, to lead the communications team is the first step. If we have learned anything, this administration is rewriting the rules of the swamp.
It is refreshing and long overdue …
What I see is crass, rude, and unprofessional.
Seriously, if you want to “drain the swamp,” you don’t do it by filling it with sludge. You put decent professional people there. Real good Americans, who hold good moral values and believe in the kind of America we choose to teach our children. You don’t teach children the best of America and then fill it with crap behind the scenes. That’s grotesque – disgusting.
“Seriously, if you want to “drain the swamp,” you don’t do it by filling it with sludge. You put decent professional people there. Real good Americans, who hold good moral values and believe in the kind of America we choose to teach our children. You don’t teach children the best of America and then fill it with crap behind the scenes. That’s grotesque – disgusting.”
What’s disgusting is you don’t appreciate the talented team the Don has put in place and how it is evolving to make it a better team.
When I look back on the Obama team, they are mostly establishment insiders and diversity hires MISSING the values you speak of now. I don’t recall you complaining.
I see all sides and all teams and use the SAME measuring stick. Sorry you don’t …