Moments before President Donald Trump announced that Apple will invest an additional $100 billion in U.S. jobs and suppliers, Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook gave Trump a customized plaque with a 24-karat gold base during an Oval Office news conference Wednesday.
Grace Moon and Katie Tarrant for The Washington Post:
“Apple will build the largest and most sophisticated smart glass production line in the world,” Trump said, adding that the tech company will source the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch products from a Corning facility in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Pausing his speech, Trump invited Cook to come up and “show them a little bit about the product you’re going to be doing in Kentucky.”
Cook approached the desk, where he gingerly unboxed the gift: an object that appeared to be an enlarged artistic rendering of a silicon wafer, a material used to make semiconductors, mounted on a 24-karat gold base.“It’s a unique unit of one,” Cook said as he displayed the glass sculpture engraved with the president’s name, adding that it was designed by a former U.S. Marine corporal who now works at Apple.
On top of his latest deal with Apple, Trump also introduced a sweeping chip tariff at the Wednesday event, saying he will impose a 100 percent tariff on all computer chips imported to the U.S. However, Trump pledged to exempt companies that commit to “building” on U.S. soil, adding that Apple had successfully secured an exemption…
The Apple CEO had said Trump’s tariffs could add $900 million to the company’s overall costs. But on Wednesday, Cook was seen shaking the president’s hand and thanking him for being “a great advocate for American innovation and manufacturing.”
“We’re a proud American company,” Cook said.
MacDailyNews Note: The iPhone glass, from American manufacturer Corning, is a disc with the iconic Apple logo cut into it. The top of the glass is etched with “PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP” under which is printed, “APPLE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING PROGRAM.” Under the Apple logo cutout, Tim Cook’s signature and “MADE IN USA” and the year 2025 are etched. The glass was designed by a “former US Marine Corps corporal” who works at Apple, according to Cook. The 24-karat gold base “comes from Utah.”
There is no word on how much the base weighs. An ounce of 24 karat gold is currently priced at approximately US$3,389.50.
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A beautiful gift. Thank you. Now, run along Tim, you non-athlete you, and, while you enjoy AAPL’s surge (and the resultant pressure easing off you to retire), remember, America First, or the screws will once more turn and it’s going to cost you at least another $100 billion and a much worse public groveling session.
Greg Gutfeld, “The Five,” August 6, 2025 remarking on Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at President Trump’s news conference: “It’s hard to focus because Tim reminds me of this lesbian organic farmer I knew years ago.”
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And git rid of that stinking altar to LBGQ in your courtyard by loading it up it a Trump garbage truck and unloading it at the local dump. Take the FBI guys who were fired today as well …. dump em all in the same pit.
There is a cure for TDS. You just have to become normal.
Anyone who believes TDS is an actual thing…. Is a fool
Go to the usual universities to see the so called educated TDS fools. Go to CNN or MSNBC to see the medial TDS fools. Go to Washington, DC and see the Democratic Liberal Progressive political TDS fools. Watch the late night TV shows, those that remain, and see the unfunny, void of talent TV TDS fools. The actual thing is all around you, but you don’t have the character to admit to it! And that makes me sad. Sad that you can’t or won’t admit to the obvious.
And atone by kissing Trumps ass.
American… land of ugly toxic masculinity, oh and fascism
Don’t forget your purse on the way out.
A WNBA green dildo on the way out.
Tim the Fluffer.
Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave…. disgusting display of ass kissing, Mr. Cook.
Disgusting display of ignorant comments by a bunch of simpletons and bigots!
In this case suffering from Tim-DS!
The commenters here are surprisingly supportive of the CEO of a private business bribing the president of the United States with a gold bar with a chunk if corning glass sticking out of it. Too caught up in team sports and culture war issues to see a legitimate conflict of interests unfolding right in front of them.
Apple started off as a punk, countercultural computer company that brought computing to creative types during the hippy 70s, they look completely unrecognizable today with their corporate bending of the knee to “The Man” with this gesture. I’d hate to say that they sold out, but that rebellious torch seems to have been passed on to the open-source movement and lives on in Linux and Firefox. I wish it didn’t have to be this way but that is how things evolve apparently.