President-elect Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook, which he announced at the Make America Great Again Victory Rally on Sunday, saying that Cook plans to invest in the US, following DAMAC and SoftBank.
President-elect Trump on the eve of his inauguration reportedly spoke to Apple CEO Tim Cook and teased what the world’s most important company could do.
“I spoke with Apple’s Tim Cook. He said they will make a lot of money in the United States because of our great election,” he said during his Make America Great Again Victory Rally on Sunday in Washington DC.
Apple didn’t do it right away responded to FOX Business’ request for comment.
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This would not be the first time that the two have worked together. In 2019, during Trump’s first term, Cook was a member of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.

President Trump then speaks with Apple CEO Tim Cook during the first meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board in Washington on March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Since winning the popular vote on Nov. 5, Trump has made two major contributions to US First, SoftBank pledges $100 billion creating 100,000 jobs.
“This historic investment is a great expression of confidence in America’s future. artificial intelligence, “The emerging technologies and industries of tomorrow are built, developed and developed here in the USA,” Trump announced in December.

President-elect Trump delivers remarks alongside SoftBank Chair and CEO Masayoshi Son at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 16. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The second is a $20 billion commitment from DAMAC to build a data center.
“I’m happy to announce today that DAMAC is selling at least $20 billion for a very short period of time in the United States, and it could go double or more than double that amount,” Trump said.
The first part of data center The project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana, Trump said.
Since the election, many CEOs have broken bread with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Walmart’s Doug McMillion.
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Trump also talked about rising economic optimism, small business confidence at a 39-year low and the stock market. Since his victory, the S&P 500 has advanced about 4%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 3% and the Nasdaq Composite 6%.
He also saw the Bitcoin rush. The biggest crypto by market value is trading north of $100,000 as of Sunday evening.
But Apple, its shares have it’s up more than 20% in the past 12 months and recently flirted with a $4 trillion valuation before pulling out of the event.
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FOX Business’ Eric Revell and Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this story.
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