Presidential candidate with one dream: keep Apple at home

Jan 19, 2016 07:22 GMT  ·  By
Donald Trump might even set a tax for companies manufacturing products overseas
   Donald Trump might even set a tax for companies manufacturing products overseas

Donald Trump is certainly an eccentric person that says a lot of crazy things, but since he’s a presidential candidate, there are quite a lot of people interested in his speeches.

And speaking at the Liberty University, Trump has re-expressed his ideas concerning some of the American companies doing business overseas, including iPhone maker Apple.

While Trump’s feelings on Apple relying on overseas production aren’t new, the billionaire has taken this public opportunity to reiterate that the company must move its operations in the United States because “we must make America great again.”

“We have such amazing people in this country: smart, sharp, energetic, they're amazing. I was saying make America great again, and I actually think we can say now, and I really believe this, we're gonna get things coming. We're gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries,” he said.

Dreaming of a tax for US companies building products overseas

This isn’t the first time when Donald Trump picks on Apple for relying too much on overseas manufacturing plants. In an interview with Fox News in 2012, he stated he wanted to bring Apple back to the States and have them build all their products in the country.

“Maybe the incentive's not there, but when 100-percent of Apple's products, or virtually 100-percent, are made outside of this country, it's pretty sad. Wouldn't it be great if Apple actually made these products in the United States?” he said.

Furthermore, Trump revealed that he was also in talks with other large American companies over their overseas production capacity, saying that he even “threatened” Ford CEO Mark Fields with a 35 percent tax if car manufacturing wasn’t transferred to the United States.

But in Apple’s case, the Cupertino-based firm is not all about overseas manufacturing. The company’s building the Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, and has some 1.9 million jobs in the country.