[adiusmus]

Just one problem?

I know a bunch of companies are packaging chips, displays etc in the US but are surely not even remotely at the scale Apple needs.

In reality the industry would probably need to re-tool multiple manufacturing capabilities involving multiple disciplines to the massive scale required. This is not impossible but it’s going to cost and it will take entire tech ecosystems and supply chains to be built. At least five years to a decade to be actually considered “operational”. Maybe this is the end goal: investment needs to occur and pressuring Apple is the way to start.

Maybe Trump is trying to get Apple incentivised to repatriate some of the ocean of cash they have.