White House Says Trump Believes in U.S.-Manufactured iPhones

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April 10, 2025 | 04:46 pm

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is confident that Apple production will return to the United States in line with the increasing application of reciprocal tariffs on more than 100 countries by the federal government. Furthermore, Trump aims to increase domestic manufacturing jobs in line with advanced technological developments around the world.

"He (Trump) believes we have the labor, we have the workforce and resources to do it,” said Leavitt in a White House press conference on April 8, 2025.

Leavitt also reminded that Apple has committed to investing $500 billion in the United States, which she believed reflected the trust the company puts in the U.S. government.

Quoting the official Apple site, the $500 billion investment is stretched for the next four years, which includes Apple’s work with thousands of suppliers across all 50 states, direct employment, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ productions in 20 states.

"In the next four years, Apple plans to hire around 20,000 people, of which the vast majority will be focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning," Apple wrote.

Leavitt said President Trump also sees various new fields in the technology sector that the U.S. must become the leader in, ranging from traditional manufacturing jobs to advanced technologies. “The president is looking at all of those, and he wants them to come back home,” she said.

Quoting The Verge, Apple has employed around 700,000 workers in China for various production lines. In Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, it was revealed that the United States lacks the 30,000 trained engineers needed to support a factory workforce that competes with the workers in China.

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