“It’s 24 -carat gold … I allow myself to install it,” says Tim Cook. “Wow,” says Donald Trump, delighted, while Apple’s boss assembles a “unique” present before his eyes.
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The scene, which takes place on August 6 in the Oval Office, is an example among others of the efforts made by the most powerful bosses in the world and by certain foreign leaders to put the American president in good measures.
The republican billionaire likes what shines, as evidenced by his office now covered with golden ornaments, and likes to affix his name everywhere.
This has not escaped Tim Cook, anxious to reconcile a head of state who continues to deplore, sometimes with threats to the key, that Apple does not make his iPhone in the United States.
In addition to promising $ 100 billion in additional investments in the United States, the boss of the technology giant therefore offered the US President a shiny present made in USA.
“Visionary”
It is a glass disc made in the state of Kentucky, designed by a former soldier now working for Apple and engraved on behalf of the president, on a solid gold base from Utah.
In another, more solemn register, the Prime Minister of Cambodia has just appointed Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, a distinction that the latter believes deserve more than anyone because of his mediation efforts in various conflicts.
Hun Manet’s letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee boasts the “visionary diplomatic policy” of the Republican.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, anxious to preserve American support for his government, has taken the same approach, as is Pakistan.
These initiatives are back in the background the generalized protectionist offensive of the US head of state who matches the trade partners of the United States of more or less high customs duties.
Some foreign leaders seem to have entered well the “user manual” of the 79 -year -old leader.
For his interview at the White House at the end of February, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had brought a letter signed by King Charles III, inviting Donald Trump, very keen on royal families and monarchical pump, to an official visit.
The Labor Manager also went to meet the American president during the latter’s recent stay in Scotland, and took the opportunity to admire two Golf complexes from the Trump family.
The United Kingdom sees most of goods exported to the United States taxed up to 10%, a lower rate for example to the European Union (15%).
“She didn’t want to hear anything”
One of the heavily taxed countries to date is Switzerland, with almost 60% of Swiss goods exports to the United States struck by a surcharge of 39%.
The president of the Confederation, Karin Keller-Sutter did not win a interview with Donald Trump during the visit she has just made in emergency in Washington.
Referring to Switzerland in an interview by phone on Tuesday with the CNBC channel, the American president launched, almost casual: “I spoke to their Prime Minister. She’s a nice woman, but she didn’t want to hear anything. ”
The boss of FIFA Gianni Infantino, of Swiss (and Italian) nationality, is, on the contrary, always warmly received in the White House.
In March, he presented the US President the Trophy of the Club World Cup, an imposing golden sculpture that tried several weeks in the oval office.
But the most commented the more commented gift is that of Qatar who offered Donald Trump a Boeing 747 to use it as a presidential plane.
Deaf on the accusations of corruption of the Democratic opposition, the American president judged that it would be “stupid” to refuse such a present, the value of which is estimated at $ 400 million.
