George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Does he have any idea how much iPhones would have to cost if made here?!
Tony “Abolish ICE”Arcieri 🌹🦀@georgetakei like many things, he does not
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Christian Gudrian@georgetakei He has way too many ideas. Alas, the wrong ones.
Dario Greggio
Lady Homealot 🖖will not comply@georgetakei That idiot seems to think it would only take a week or so to accomplish. Stupidest creature to ever exist.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@CrushingFlightoftheOwlbear @georgetakei This is why none of his non-property businesses have succeeded, he has no understanding of it.
@toriver @georgetakei Apple could probably take their factory in Austin that manufactures the Mac Pro where tRump visited during his first go-round, pile up a bunch of iPhones everywhere and tell him that’s what they’re making, then give him a lab coat, hard hat, and a seat on a forklift, and he’d be happy. 😆
Epistomai@toriver @CrushingFlightoftheOwlbear @georgetakei I don't understand how he has done his entire life avoiding being broke
@epistomai IKR. Probably close to it with 6 corporate bankruptcies and why he never showed his financial records like other presidential candidates.
Paul@georgetakei I take the point, but we're opening up a whole can of worms about labour and pay in the countries in which these devices are currently made. Arguably iPhones (and basically every other electronic device) *should* cost a lot more, wherever they are made, so the people making them are fairly renumerated. Although you could offset that by reducing executive pay, maybe.
Mensch, Marina
Januschka Abroadand so they are replaced less frequently and get repaierd!!
Audrey Winter@paulbottomley42 @georgetakei Thank you for saying it openly. A lot of people are forgetting that these beloved cheap products of theirs are exploiting and killing people in other countries.
@audreygwinter @georgetakei it's easy to forget the exploitation happening far away, out of our sight :(
Grovewest@paulbottomley42 @georgetakei You can't have reciprocal trade with a multi-national without strong multi-national labor unions. That will never ever happen. The leaders and controlling interests of every country on earth will murder anyone who even tries.
@paulbottomley42 @georgetakei the problem is if they were made here they would cost $10,000. Increasing the tariff so it costs $1,800 is still saving buyers $8,000. It’s a stupid business decision to build them here in every way.
Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮@georgetakei no, he doesn’t. And he doesn’t care. As all monarchs do.
Jack William BellMachiavelli had some very pithy things to say about monarchs who didn't care – and how they eventually ended up.
@jackwilliambell klingt ausländisch der Kerl - also wohl kaum #MAGA, also irrelevant.
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia@georgetakei Can't imagine Steve Jobs would have gone along with all this nonsense the way Tim Cook is. Jobs had integrity.
Rycochet@georgetakei Give it 6 months and he will be proposing the asylum seekers he's rounded up and prison labour be used to assemble iPhones.
DianeWell there's one company that's tried for something much bulkier and much smaller batch than apple iphones.
Purism 5 $799
Purism 5 USA $1999
Helix 
AdeptVeritatisBut wouldn't it be fabulous, if you have to pay the price, they are really worth?
Without the exploitation of other countries.
𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕝@georgetakei he doesn‘t need to.
he‘ll get them as a gift …
he‘ll get them as a gift …
RigsbySiv@georgetakei Does he have ANY idea?
mossyruaAging boomers eh?
Frank J@georgetakei well also the fact the country he would tariffs on is the United States because tariffs can not be placed on corporations by matter of federal law and if that law changes then white people need to know the system of white supremacy they so closely hang on to will inevitably go after them as well
@georgetakei 10 times more? 25% tariff is cheap.
Dunkle McPhee (Metalboy) ☠️@georgetakei No. He doesn’t understand now tariffs work. He doesn’t understand how to make deals. He’s just a racist piece of trash.
jmht@georgetakei So much for free enterprise, eh?
kryphos@georgetakei maybe, but why should he care. He's the king. When the king says "the sky is green", everybody obeys. Not because they believe it, but because the king has said so.
Trump demands Tim Cook to bend the knee, kiss the ring and praise the king. Or else, he will trash Apple.
He might still trash Apple despite Cook eating crow. Just for the lulz. Trumps followers love him exactly for that.
Pino Carafa@georgetakei and Apple is already obscenely overpriced.
Hello Don, got a new mota (and plane)? 🇵🇸 ☮️Exactly - an enormous markup on the cost of production. Apple also has a long track record of aggressive tax avoidance - owes the EU through Ireland $13bn.
@linuxgnome @georgetakei Yeah, and not Ireland's finest hour when it fought tooth and nail on Apple's side. So afraid to lose Apple's business that it would rather forego a 13 billion tax windfall. Thankfully our government was forced to accept the extra spending power and guess what.... the Apple offices are still here in Dublin. Just like other Apple business will stay in China and India. They will just ride out these 4 years of insanity and hope for better times after Lord Dampnut.
Floreana@georgetakei
Fast way to get everyone off their phones?
Fast way to get everyone off their phones?
Schroedinger@georgetakei Does he care? I mean, obviously, it would destroy the business, but not this week, so it is fine. He will probably be dead before they are.
He wants to pretend to be the consumate businessman, but has has no idea how to run business. Obviously Apple will manufacture wherever it is financially appropriate to.
Trump has no concept of global business.
William B Peckham@georgetakei I would never own one of those little fruit phones. I had to use one for about two years because it was mandated by an employer and I had the iPhone 4. One of the best music players I've ever owned, but it really sucked as a phone. The thing is, there are people that love and depend on and count on their little fruit phones. They already cost too much for half the population, and there is no reason they should have to pay two or three times more to get one, except Trump's ego. I will be happy to see the day when he can pack up his ego and put it into his shoreline property and sit back and wait for the water to rise and we won't have to read or hear his words ever again.
SuperDucky@georgetakei Yes for americans it will be expensive, but because the dollar looses value and for the rest of the world...it get cheaper? ;-)
Michael T Overton@georgetakei He has no idea or ideology about anything except enriching himself.
Casper 👻@georgetakei
Does he realize that doesn’t build their phones?
Does he realize that doesn’t build their phones?
Serge@georgetakei No. He has the business sense of a potato.
Merry ChristmasApple funding Trump I| believed, if they did then more fool them.
Max Lee 
@georgetakei
It would cost a much more real price without all the exploitation that way.
It would cost a much more real price without all the exploitation that way.
Steph Roccia (Sinjoro)@georgetakei
HMD (Nokia) make better smart phones in Europe than Apple - but they cost between €90 - €350..... showing just how much Apple rips off anyone daft enough to buy an iPhone. 🤔
HMD (Nokia) make better smart phones in Europe than Apple - but they cost between €90 - €350..... showing just how much Apple rips off anyone daft enough to buy an iPhone. 🤔
Barry @georgetakei First of all, it would take at least a couple years to build a factory that could handle production, but secondly, trump has already begun deporting anyone that would work there.
Michael Vilain@georgetakei Make them wherever and only sell them in Canada and Mexico but fully US compatible. People will make such places tourest destinations and secretly purchase them there.
F4GRX Sébastien@georgetakei as a bilionaire, he doesnt care.
Mike@georgetakei He has no idea about anything.
Ordovician@georgetakei Yeah, there was that whole Foxconn thing too which entirely stunk of Trumpiness.
manchicken@georgetakei even if we manufactured them here we’d still need to import parts and materials.
derHinek@georgetakei So he ist producing his merch completely in the US now, right?
Ilka@georgetakei well, they can really "eat the tariffs". iphone production costs ~5.00USD - not only are the tariffs insignificant, they also have an incredibly unique sky rocketing profit margin.
They are one of the companies in the position to change the FOTUS course but they decide to duck and botch.
They are one of the companies in the position to change the FOTUS course but they decide to duck and botch.
Sh1gg1@georgetakei It’s absolutely ridiculous especially considering his shit (caps, etc) is MADE IN CHINA! 🙄🤡
Cleanair Avatar@georgetakei A communicator for the entire galaxy. At wholesale prices.
Noortje Van Leeuwen@georgetakei he doesnt care...