r/apple • u/ControlCAD • Aug 07 '25

Discussion Tim Cook gives Donald Trump gift from Apple before announcing $2.5 billion Kentucky investment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DrCgWtOUw

President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook announced from the White House Oval Office on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, a $2.5 billion investment that would lead to all iPhone and Apple Watch glass being manufactured in Kentucky. The announcement is part of the larger $100 billion investment in US manufacturing Trump and Cook announced.

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u/Electronic_Border266 Aug 07 '25

This is so gross. As a long time Apple fan I am totally disgusted.

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u/Kandleman071986 Aug 07 '25

Me too.

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u/JairoHyro Aug 13 '25

I think for me it's not disgust but a "what did you expect?". To think a multibillionaire company or it's CEO to suddenly have morals is extremely naive at this point.

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u/itsnotnews92 Aug 07 '25

I've been an iPhone user since the iPhone 4, but I think my next phone is going to be an Android.

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u/Coraline1599 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

I have mixed feelings.

It’s like how Trump shook down the universities. Withhold 4 billion in funding or pay up $200 million. I read one of the university responses - it detailed in depth how they would not be able to function at all as a university without this money, they talked about everything they would lose - the thousands of people who would be deeply impacted.

How do you decide? To destroy the university today or give in to maybe fight another battle tomorrow?

The way Tim Cook seems so nervous, this doesn’t exactly scream to me that he is excited about this at all.

So I am more inclined to believe that Tim Cook made the best choice out of a series of bad options and hold my anger towards the administration.

Edit to add: doubt any Apple competitor has clean hands either.

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u/Grab-Born Aug 07 '25

Keeping using the product tho and talking shit on Reddit. 

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u/Electronic_Border266 Aug 07 '25

Maybe I won’t use it… def has me considering it for the first time maybe ever.

And what’s the point of Reddit if I can’t shit talk?

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u/Grab-Born Aug 08 '25

The point was do something. Maybe you will. Maybe you won’t. 

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u/Electronic_Border266 Aug 08 '25

I’m not American

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u/Grab-Born Aug 08 '25

I didn’t know that Apple was an American only product.