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:yeahMore on the above post my Knapp

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-mac-factory-texas-not-131158967.html

 

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday toured a Texas plant that makes high-end Apple computers, chatting with Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, and accepting a plate with the words “Assembled in USA.”

It was a pretty typical publicity event, until the end. Trump walked in front of the news cameras and took credit for the plant, suggesting it had opened that day. “For me, this is a very special day,” he said. Cook stood next to him, stone-faced.

The plant has been making Apple computers since 2013.

Immediately after Trump’s comments, Cook thanked the president and his staff. “I’m grateful for their support in pulling today off and getting us to this far. It would not be possible without them,” he said. He did not correct the record.

The moment was part of a bizarre afternoon in Texas, where the president played up a 6-year-old factory as evidence of his 3-year-old presidency’s success in bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

It showed Trump’s willingness to leverage his influence over U.S. companies in his pitch to voters that he deserves another four years in the White House. And it illustrated the complicated position that Cook and other corporate executives find themselves in with this president, forced to stand silently by while he sometimes misleads about their businesses.

After Trump departed the factory, he tweeted, “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.”

Apple officials didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The plant Trump toured is owned by Flex, a company that has made Apple’s top-of-the-line Mac Pro computers there since 2013.

When Apple decided to make the Mac Pro in the United States in 2012, Cook went on prime-time television to announce it. Apple had previously assembled virtually all of its products in China. Yet when production of the computer began in Texas, it quickly ran into problems, in part because of a lack of nearby suppliers.

Earlier this year, Apple unveiled a new version of the Mac Pro, with a starting price of $6,000. Shortly after, Apple and the White House began a monthslong public dance over where the computer would be made.

Apple said it needed waivers from tariffs the White House had imposed on certain Chinese-made components, like power cables and circuit boards, to keep making the Mac Pro in Texas. At first, Trump tweeted no, but the White House later granted 10 of the waivers.

On Wednesday, Cook showed Trump the new Mac Pro, which recently began coming off the plant’s assembly lines. He pointed to different components in the computer and ticked off which states they came from.

 

 

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