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Trump Says Apple's Tim Cook Has Promised Him He'd Build Three US Factories: 'Big, Big, Big' (cnbc.com)
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Apple CEO 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. From a report: Apple CEO Tim Cook called Trump to share that the iPhone-maker would do more manufacturing domestically, Trump told WSJ. "I spoke to [Mr. Cook], he's promised me three big plants -- big, big, big," Trump was quoted as saying. Apple has already said that it would start a $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the United States. With its wide network of developers, Apple has already created two million jobs in the United States, according to Cook.
"Apple has already created two million jobs in the United States, according to Cook", and that just proves Cook is full of shit. If they are 3 plants like the 2 million jobs those plants will include the truck manufacturer that builds the trucks that deliver the phones to the stores, the ship builder that provides the transport from china and the building material manufacturers for their shiters.
All these plants would be in 100% automated in States and Cities where they will be Tax exempt, which will be making B2B products so there is no sales tax.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Trump is a fucking liar, so nothing he says can be taken as having anything to do with the truth.
- Vincit qui patitur.
Saying that you're going to make a "big" factory doesn't mean anything as it will be years of site selection, environmental impact reports, etc.
If Mr. Cook wanted Apple to show that they cared about the countries they do business in as well as make an immediate impact, they would stop offshoring their profits and pay taxes on them in the country they made the money.
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Thought so.
Same lie, different day. Nothing to see here. Move along
To say that he has a... "casual acquaintance with truth and reality" is an understatement.
If that gang of sociopaths tell you it's July and the sky is blue, begin to doubt the existence of seasons and colors.
Don't forget Hillary. All politics aside, the "man" is just an overgrown man-child, who throws tantrums whenever he doesn't get his way, constantly whines about how unfair everything is, and is so convinced that he's a "winner" who succeeds at everything he does, nothing that goes wrong is ever his fault. It's either some mess he inherited from Obama, or Hillary is the real criminal everyone should be looking at, or the Republicans in Congress who are not doing enough. Whatever it is, there's always some kind of external force at work, it's never him.
The really sad thing is the stories that come out about how the people who prepare the intelligence briefings -- very important stuff for a President -- have learned they need to find ways to put Trump's name into the briefing so he'll keep reading.
Trump is someone who's had pretty much everything handed to him his whole life, and he seems to have had this idea in his head that the POTUS was some sort of autocrat a la Putin. Now that he's starting to learn the hard way that he can't just threaten to fire any member of Congress who doesn't go along with his agenda, like he could in the private world, he throws tantrums like a spoiled brat toddler.
Look, the guy has a track record of lying. Like 90-95 percent of the time.
Best case scenario is 1/20th the jobs show up and 2/3 of the plants are in Mexico and Canada, and the American plant is actually located in a US Possession or Protectorate but not actually in the US itself.
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