make their new Mac Pro in Texas<\/a>. That\u2019s a big ticket item. As I say, I mean, this computer, if you max it out, you could spend $60,000 on it. It is genuinely a pro. It is for Hollywood or for visual video and audio professionals who need all kinds of computational speed and storage. I mean, the cheapest version of this baby is gonna be around $5,000, and even that is not — it\u2019s a big — it\u2019s definitely pro.<\/p>\nMaking it in Texas when it was previously announced that it was gonna be made in China. Now, most of Apple\u2019s assembly is China. The parts for all of their products come from all over the world, including America, but the assembly is in China in factories that employ 300 to 500,000 people. Manufacturing things at Apple\u2019s scale is incomprehensible.<\/p>\n
You have an iPhone in your hand. Now, imagine in the next 12 months Apple\u2019s gonna sell 200 million of those. That means they\u2019ve gotta have 200 million of everything that\u2019s in one: 200 million camera assemblies, 200 million processors — actually, more than that, because some of them are not going to pass inspection on manufacture. Some are gonna be thrown out. It\u2019s incomprehensible. And to do this every year, to scale up like that is fabulous.<\/p>\n
Well, we\u2019ve got the trade war going now with the ChiComs, and Trump is dead serious about winning this because we have to. Well, guess where Apple, guess the next market Apple is mining for manufacturing? It happens to be India. They have the population base that could ramp up, if necessary — not saying it\u2019s going to be. They\u2019re also manufacturing some things in Vietnam now.<\/p>\n
Apple — it\u2019s not a massive move out of China. They\u2019re not gonna do anything to threaten the ChiCom government \u2019cause they still need it. These are just trends. But they are all trends happening because of one presidency. And this is the Trump administration. When Trump talks about the deals that previous leaders have made that were dumb and stupid, these are the things that he\u2019s talking about. Because America keeps getting ripped off and has, and that has been the policy, that was the design.<\/p>\n
In the postwar era, America as the price for being the victor and being the lone superpower, we were supposed to take it on the chin to show the rest of the world we didn\u2019t mean \u2019em any harm, that we weren\u2019t gonna laud our superpower status over \u2019em. So if the U.N. needed some money from our back pocket, they got it. If NATO needed to be defended totally by us, they were. If we need to take it in the shorts on deals on trade with China, we did it because we were gonna show everybody that we didn\u2019t intend \u2019em any harm.<\/p>\n
What was absent in this whole formulation was the recognition or acknowledgment that America is the good guys. It was exemplified by Madeleine Albright, who when the Soviet Union fell and the Berlin Wall came down, she was panicked. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is destabilizing,\u201d she said. So the world in her perverted view was more unstable when the U.S. had an enemy. That kept us in check, you see.<\/p>\n
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The good guys don\u2019t need to be kept in check. The good guys need to multiply. The good guys need to influence. The good guys need to spread their influence around the world. But Madeleine Albright — and she was typical. And it was Republicans and Democrats both. This is the Washington establishment. Much preferred a competing superpower — it also served the purpose of keeping the American people up to speed with defense spending and so forth, because we had this big, bad guy enemy out there ready to wipe us out any day they want to. We had to be prepared. And it was legit. It was a legit threat.<\/p>\n
But the idea that we were not the good guy, that we needed a competing power as a second superpower to keep us in check to stabilize the world, that\u2019s the way these people thought. Trump has always thought that was stupid! Why does America need to be in decline? Why does America have to act like we\u2019re in decline? Why can\u2019t we keep growing? We are a force for good in the world. We can spread our way of life. Not impose it. You don\u2019t impose freedom on people.<\/p>\n
So all Trump is doing is trying to rearrange this order. And they\u2019re calling it white nationalism. They\u2019re calling it populism. It\u2019s patriotism, if anything. But beyond all that it\u2019s economic sense. We are the engine of the world. Why should we be punished for it? The left does this throughout our culture in high school, let\u2019s say high school soccer when one team is way better than another, what do we do? We penalize the good team. We make \u2019em start 20 points down or two points down or what have you. Then we go to the point where we don\u2019t even declare a winner because it\u2019s humiliating for the losers.<\/p>\n
Well, that kind of thinking, where do you think it started? It started in American foreign policy. When militant Islamists take out the World Trade Center, what do we do? We convene a forum asking what did we do to make them mad? It\u2019s been silly. You want to talk about dumb and stupid, Trump is exactly right. So Trump is trying to rearrange and reorder all of this. And if India wants to become a major manufacturing base and if that is possible — and India\u2019s got strange rules. For example, if you want to sell something in India, whatever it is, there are rules it has to be made there or a large percentage of it has to be made there.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the original reason that Apple opened its manufacturing plant there because they couldn\u2019t sell iPhones in India at a price Indians could afford unless they were manufactured there, and the Indians wouldn\u2019t let the phone into the market anyway, so they\u2019ve started manufacturing certain parts of the iPhone there, assembly. It\u2019s a slow process. It\u2019s evolving. But all of this, our caller\u2019s dead-on right, all of this is putting a little pressure on the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
Believe me, I mean, there\u2019s billion people in that country, and that can lead a government to not fret about the loss of one or two or three, big whoop. Have a war, lose a couple million, fine, easier to feed the rest. I\u2019m not exaggerating. But losing hundreds of thousands of jobs, not even the communist ChiComs want that. That\u2019s people that can feed themselves. That\u2019s people that can provide for their families at whatever meager level.<\/p>\n
The Chinese government needs to create jobs out the wazoo outside of the cities. Cities are overrun, they\u2019re overcrowded, they need the jobs created where, for example, Apple\u2019s factories are. Apple\u2019s factories are in the boondocks, and cities have been built up around them. That\u2019s what the ChiComs need. They need jobs outside the cities. They don\u2019t want to lose them. The worst thing that could happen for the ChiComs is for all that manufacturing base to leave for Vietnam or to India. This is all the negotiating strength and power Trump has.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s in the midst of all this that he does a rally, that he does a rally on Sunday in Houston at the Howdy, Modi rally. And here\u2019s just a brief little sound bite. Listen to these cheers. This is the guy the Democrats think that they\u2019re gonna impeach?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: — are close.<\/p>\n