Trump Believes Entire iPhones Can Be Manufactured in America

Smartphones are hard to make. Like, really hard. So hard, in fact, that Apple's Tim Cook once admitted it takes 30,000 Chinese engineers overseeing some 700,000 workers just to make iPhone manufacturing economically feasible. Though the US has no such labor force, let alone engineering capacity, Donald Trump and his band of minions keep insisting that we could bring iPhone manufacturing home. That seems to be the most coherent sales pitch behind Trump's unprecedented tariffs, which many experts say could plunge the US — if not the rest of the world — into a self-inflicted recession. Asked whether Trump thinks iPhone manufacturing could come to the US, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "absolutely." "He believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it," she answered. "As you know, Apple has invested $500 billion here in the United States, so if apple didn't think the United States could do it they probably wouldn't have put up that big ... Read full article.