The president made his statements seemingly to keep in line with his ongoing trade war with China and made it clear to the American public that the US needs to focus on supporting Americans financially by providing jobs on the home front. This call to action however, really isn’t as easy as it may seem, corporations like Apple who are based out of the United States cannot simply just up and leave from one country. In fact, if Apple were to truly bring its entire operation to the US, that would mean a withdrawal of operations from not just China but Germany, where the sensors of iPhones are produced, Korea, the place of origin for the iPhone’s screen, and Japan, where the iPhone’s memory is produced. The withdrawal of this complex supply chain of goods would call for an immediate surge of skills education in the United States which would need to be built from the ground up. Not only that, but even if the US had the skilled labor to produce these products, the corporation would be taking a major loss of profits due to the higher employment and production costs that would come with bringing all of Apple’s operations stateside.