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Apple core? Baltimore. Who's your friend? Trump vows to slap tariff on iPhones

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Wayne Arnold
May 26, 2025
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s bad year, as The Wall Street Journal puts it, keeps getting worse.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Trump on Friday added to Cook’s troubles by threatening to impose a 25% tariff on its imported iPhones if Cook didn’t grant Trump’s wish for more (maybe even all) iPhones sold in the U.S. to be made domestically.

“I have long ago infor…

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