Trump Spoke To Tim Cook, Offered Incentives To Bring iPhone Manufacturing To US

It’s been several years since Apple decided to outsource the manufacturing of its gadgets to China and other countries, including the iPhone and its MacBooks. This resulted in thousands of jobs being denied from Americans. President-elect Donald Trump recently spoke to the current CEO of Apple Tim Cook and reportedly gave him huge tax incentives to bring back manufacturing of its products to the U.S.

Trump spoke to The New York Times recently for an interview and he talked about a lot of things, which is something he has been doing more and more of recently. One of the subjects he touched on was the supposed phone call that he had with Apple’s CEO and the incentives that he offered to return manufacturing jobs to American workers.

“We’re going for a very large tax cut for corporations, which you’ll be happy about,’” Trump reportedly told Cook. “But we’re going for big tax cuts, we have to get rid of regulations, regulations are making it impossible. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, I mean I could sit down and show you regulations that anybody would agree are ridiculous. It’s gotten to be a free-for-all. And companies can’t, they can’t even start up, they can’t expand, they’re choking.”

When asked to comment on Trump’s claims, Apple made no replies to publications like The Verge. This is indicative of something, at least, which is that the phone call might have indeed happened. Whether or not the company’s chief executive made any commitments, however, is the remaining mystery.

To be sure, returning manufacturing jobs to the U.S., especially with a company like Apple would be a huge victory for Trump. With the transition process experiencing quite a few hiccups and doubt raining down from both Democrats and Republicans, the President-elect will need a win to convince the American people of his abilities.