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Apple CEO Says He Has Urged Trump To Address Legal Status of Immigrants; Also Told Him That Tariffs Are Wrong Approach To China (bloomberg.com)
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told Bloomberg Television that he has criticized Donald Trump's approach to trade with China in a recent White House meeting, while also urging the president to address the legal status of immigrants known as Dreamers. From the interview: Cook said his message to Trump focused on the importance of trade and how cooperation between two countries can boost the economy more than nations acting alone. Cook met with Trump in the Oval Office in late April amid a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China. The Trump administration instituted 25 percent tariffs on at least $50 billion worth of products from China, sparking retaliation. In the interview on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations," Cook acknowledged that previous trade policies were flawed but said Trump's move is also problematic. "It's true, undoubtedly true, that not everyone has been advantaged from that -- in either country -- and we've got to work on that," Cook said. "But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
I voted for Tim Cook for president and am glad his policies will now be implemented. /sarcasm
WTF? Why would I give a crap about what Cook thinks needs to be done? I voted Trump in because Trump was going to do things I wanted. If Tim wanted his policies to be put into place, perhaps he should have run instead. What is it with liberals that don't run, or can't win elections thinking their ideas should be put into place even if the majority of citizens showed they disagree with them. You all like to say the GOP needs to stay out of my bedroom, well the DNC needs to stay out of my government until they can win an election without having the FBI/CIA/NSA all spying on opposition campaigns attempting to throw the election their way illegally.
Tim Cook, like so many others, does not seem to understand that Trump's not actually implementing most tariffs, he is just using them as a tool - asking fir China to reduce import fees or else he'll implement the tariffs. Because Trump is kind of crazy, the Chinese can't tell if he will or not so they actually back off.
Trump's use of tariffs as a threat is working.
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Trump doesn't give a shit about any of that. As long as his ravenous fans/base think that way, that's what he will go for.
So the CEO of a company that relies on low tariffs to justify outsourcing their products to be manufactured by forced child laborers has advised against raising tariffs on their products coming back into the country. Imagine that....
When political opponents say that whatever their political rival is doing is the "wrong approach" but neglect to offer a realistic alternative, my ass begins to twitch.
Did you forget Trump was a major Democrat donor for 35 years?
Did you forget that time Obama said homosexuality was wrong, and that marriage was between a man and a woman?
Did you forget that time Hillary said homosexuality was wrong, and that marriage was between a man and a woman?
Do you remember that time when they all pivoted when it became convenient for polling?
I remember. Quit being a tribalistic cult member, you fucking imbecile.
How about because he is the CEO of one of America's largest and most successful companies? I suppose you'd rather take economic advice from a senile reality-show host and real estate con-man who had to declare bankruptcy multiple times.
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He'd have stayed focussed on creating new interesting products at Apple.
And he definitely wouldn't have used wishy-washy terms like "problematic."
Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Actually, he could do a lot with executive orders, Obama acted like a king with them.
Apple can't even make a goddamn keyboard properly these days. I trust them even less w/ politics.
However China doesn't think that tariffs are the wrong approach to the U.S. Nor do they think intellectual property theft is a problem. In fact the tariffs Trump has levied are still tiny in comparison to the ones China has on us, they just seem bigger (an in raw, no percentages taken into account it does mean more money) due to the huge trade imbalance.
As a libertarian I'm against tariffs.
I'm also against slavery, and to one degree or another China engages in it. I would argue the income tax system is slavery to, so the U.S. engages in it, but it's a matter of degree, many non-libertarians would argue by their measuring sticks that the U.S. does not engage in slavery through income tax but China still enslaves their people by the same measure.
I don't think tariffs are the right approach, but we are playing a game where China has established the way they're playing that game. It's up to us to play with the rules they have established in mind, and our president has chosen to answer in kind, in percentages that are smaller than the ones they've presented against us. I can't fully fault Trump for his approach. My general approach to someone not playing by a rule set I agree with is to take my ball and go home, and I agree that probably isn't the right approach in this case.
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"But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
Yeah and Trump is just all about being analytical instead of shoot from the hip reactionary. The guy has the attention span shorter than my puppy and has to have pretty pictures in his presentations to hold his attention. Analytical isn't going to convince him of anything. Flattery might...
Removal of healthcare
Only for people who can't afford it.
tax breaks for the better off
It's going to cost DJT a fortune. He said so.
banging porn starts and paying them off
You're supposed to pay porn stars after banging them.
making it so anything negative is fake news
With so much negative DJT coverage, what other explanation is there but it being fake?
the wall
Mexico's paying for it; I don't see what the problem is.
MAGA!
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
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The destruction of America???? Are you fucking retarded? Or are you just a dishonest Trump-hating piece of shit? America is running just the same as it always has... so your point is just plain wrong.
You are exactly like those anti-brexiters... crying about the destruction brexit will cause... you know what happened??? FUCK ALL!!!!
Go jerk off to HIllary you SJW cuck.
Except for accelerating destruction of environmental protections, rolling back consumer protections, increasing corporate welfare (and thereby wealth disparity) in the form of the repugnican tax scam, breaking of promises (Iran nuclear agreement) to our allies and others, etc. Yeah, things are going same as always... Really though?
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He used the stick and him "generously" helping ZTE is the carrot, only now the new ZTE will behave - and be grateful to Trump for having been punished!
That's your biased wishful thinking perhaps. He may well backdown because China imposed tariff on American agriculture products, hurting his and Republican's support base.
There's a distinct difference.
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