Trump’s Presidency Entices Apple to Invest $600 Billion in American Manufacturing | The American Spectator

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to announce that the tech company would increase its investment in U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years.

The new investments aim to bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the U.S. and promise to directly create 20,000 new American jobs, not including thousands more jobs across Apple’s suppliers.

According to the company’s press release, Apple has called its move to accelerate its American developments the new “American Manufacturing Program.” In addition to Apple’s own manufacturing, the program also intends to incentivize other global companies to manufacture more of their critical components, including semiconductor chips, in America.

The announcement marks an increased commitment of $100 billion in addition to Apple’s initial announcement in February that it would invest $500 billion domestically, which was already the company’s largest-ever spending commitment. Back then, Cook said, “We are bullish on the future of American innovation,” and evidently, his bullishness has only grown in recent months.

At Wednesday’s announcement, Trump commented, “For years, Americans have watched as many of our leading tech giants built their factories overseas and exported American jobs abroad — but under the Trump Administration, we’re doing everything possible to make this the best place on earth to build a factory or grow businesses.”

The president added that “today’s announcement is one of the largest commitments in what has become among the greatest investment booms in our nation’s history.”

The announcement comes after Trump has continued to implement his tariff-based trade policy designed to bring manufacturing and investment back to America, although Trump’s tariffs have also generated significant tariff revenues.

As he launched a new wave of tariffs on Aug. 1, Trump iconically posted, “IT’S MIDNIGHT!!! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!” He followed up by saying that “tariffs are flowing into the USA at levels not thought even possible!”

In recent months, Trump has criticized Cook as Apple attempted to shift iPhone production to India instead of the U.S., in an attempt to avoid Trump’s tariffs placed on China. Earlier this year, Trump explained that he had “a little problem with Tim Cook,” because, as he said, “I don’t want you building in India.” India was one of the countries targeted in Trump’s new round of tariffs, which began days before Apple’s announcement to invest even more heavily in the U.S.

The announcement is a sign that Apple has renewed its efforts to cooperate with the Trump administration’s agenda. Despite Apple’s progressive tendencies — the company has notoriously lobbied on behalf of LGBT activists and affirmed “gender expression [as] a fundamental right” — Cook praised Trump and credited his administration for Apple’s decision to increase its American manufacturing investments. “Thank you, President Trump,” he said, “for putting American innovation and American jobs front and center.”

As Cook paid homage to Trump’s presidency, he also framed Apple as a patriotic company committed to America.

The CEO said, “We’re going to keep making investments right here in America, we’re going to keep hiring in America, and we’re going to keep building technologies at the heart of our products right here in America because we’re a proud American company, and we believe deeply in the promise of this great nation.”

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