







President Trump on Wednesday toured a Texas plant that has been making Apple Mac Pro computers since 2013 and took credit for it, suggesting the plant opened today.

“Today is a very special day,” the president said at the plant, according to New York Times report Jack Nicas.

President Trump just toured a Texas plant that has been making Apple computers since 2013 and took credit for it, suggesting the plant opened today. "Today is a very special day." Tim Cook spoke immediately after him and did not correct the record. — Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) November 20, 2019







Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly spoke immediately after the president and did not correct the record.

According to Nicas, the plant “the president toured today with Tim Cook is owned and run by a company called Flextronics. It has been making Apple computers since 2013. Little has changed there. That plant employs about 500 people in Texas. Apple’s Chinese manufacturers employ millions of people.”

CEO Tim Cook takes @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump on tour of Apple plant in Austin. pic.twitter.com/0vwPLoRpSl — Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) November 20, 2019

Trump later took to Twitter to repeat the false claim.

“Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America,” Trump tweeted. “Today Nancy Pelosi closed Congress because she doesn’t care about American Workers!”









Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America. Today Nancy Pelosi closed Congress because she doesn’t care about American Workers! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2019

Trump didn't "open" this plant. Apple *has* just broken ground on a new campus in Austin, but the plant he visited — owned by a company called Flex, not Apple itself — has been producing the Mac Pro since 2013. Here's the article from 2013. https://t.co/IvqLDq1WVH pic.twitter.com/1Qdzw7gkEM — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 20, 2019

Well look who it is. Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump toured a Mac Pro assembly plant in Austin today. In the meeting, Trump addressed the ongoing trade war with China. Here's why tariffs aren't the only thing Apple has to worry about: https://t.co/uy13tdK5mk pic.twitter.com/nVtzaPGJ2p — WIRED (@WIRED) November 20, 2019











