Trump Gets Little Pushback on Tariff Threat to Apple

Trump threatens tech giant Apple and European Union with new tariffs

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Trump Gets Little Pushback on Tariff Threat to Apple

Punchbowl News: “We in the media normalize a lot of Trump’s extreme behavior, but this is a truly extraordinary statement. He’s openly warning the leader of one of the most important companies in the United States — which has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on its Chinese manufacturing operations — that they can’t avoid tariffs by shifting production to India. Its factories must be based in the United States, Trump said, or Apple gets hit …

The big companies in the United States, such as Amazon, Apple, Mattel and Walmart, have become one of the targets of the American president.