The Daily Signal - Apple Invests $100 Billion into Kentucky Facility, Dem Gerrymandering Outrage Flops, WNBA Threatens Strike | Aug. 7, 2025

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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We'd love to talk. Business. Apple pledges another $100 billion for a screen manufacturing center in Kentucky. Democrats attempt to go nuclear on gerrymandering is going poorly, and WNBA players threaten to sit out if they aren't paid more. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Thursday, August 7th, 2025.

This is the Daily Signals top news in 10. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Trump at the White House to announce another $100 billion in a manufacturing facility this time for iPhone and Apple Watch glass screens down in Kentucky. Check it out. Today, Apple is announcing that it will invest $600 billion. That's with the B in the United States over the next four years. That's $100 billion more than they were originally going to invest. And this is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America.

and anywhere else. And it's just an honor to have you, as you know, Apple's been an investor in other countries a little bit. I won't say which ones, but a couple. And they're coming home. $600 billion. It's the biggest there is. The company is also unveiling its ambitious new American manufacturing program,

which will bring factories and assembly lines across our country, all roaring to life. This brings the total of Apple investments recently into the United States up to $600 billion. Here's Tim Cook. Good afternoon, everyone. Mr. President, thank you very much for having me here today. You've been a great advocate for American innovation and manufacturing,

and I'm grateful for your leadership and your commitment. That's a commitment we share at Apple because American innovation is central to everything we do. Our products are designed here. We're hiring and growing here. and we support $450,000 jobs with thousands of suppliers and partners in all 50 states. Earlier this year, we made our largest ever spending commitment, $500 billion to the U.S. over the next four years. That's already yielding results.

Earlier this year, we broke ground on a new factory in Houston to make advanced AI servers, and just last month, the very first test unit rolled off that factory's line, proudly made in America. President Trump shared some kind words about that work, but he also asked us to think about what more we could commit to doing. And Mr. President, we took that challenge very seriously. I'm glad to be here with you today, and I'm very proud to say that today we're committing an additional $100 billion

to the United States, bringing our total U.S. investment to $600 billion over the next four years. As a part of this, we're launching Apple's American manufacturing program. It will spur even more production right here in America for critical components used in Apple products all around the world. And we're thrilled to announce that we've already signed new agreements with 10 companies across America to do just that. Apple is also expanding semiconductor production in Texas, in Utah, Arizona, and New York. They're expanding mining, recycling, and earth precious minerals development in California. And Apple is just one of many corporations who have either pledged or begun construction of major financial investment into the United States in the tech sector.

These include companies like Nvidia, Micron, SoftBank, IBM, TSMC, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Stalantis, GM, Roche, Hyundai, Honda, and Honda, and hundreds of billions of dollars for almost every, single one of those. Notably, President Trump dropped a linchpin piece of economic policy that is going to fundamentally change how a lot of the tech sector in the United States economy functions. He stated that if you are a company who has either pledged to build new factories or facilities here in the United States, you are in the process of investing in the United States, or you are actively manufacturing facilities here in the country, you don't have tariffs applied to you at all. whatsoever. You are completely exempt. However, if you don't follow through with your commitment to build in the United States, Trump has suggested that the tariffs will then come back to hit you,

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And Democrat Senator's strategy to focus on gerrymandering now is really not going well. Senator Alisa Slotkin of Michigan took to television to say that it was time for Democrats to abandon nonpartisan actions and go nuclear. I'm going to urge and encourage blue states, like a California or a Chicago or Illinois, excuse me, to do the same thing. I don't want to do that. I want the country to have a completely nonpartisan drawing of the lines based on the census. But if they're going to do that and go nuclear, so am I. Of course, rather ironic, considering that when you look at Illinois, California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, et cetera, ad nauseum, these are already heavily gerrymandered states and have been for some times, it's something.

something that both parties do, although states like California, New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois are so far gerrymandered already that it's really impossible to gerrymander them any further, as many critics have been quick to point out that Democrats haven't necessarily been playing this nonpartisan up until now. This did come to bite Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois on an appearance on Colbert, a rather unusual time for Pritzker to draw a fire, and he then blamed the redistricting on kindergartners. Check it out. Easy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this. Look at, look at 17 here. It does that. Then it comes up here and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here and then goes

right over there like that. And look at, look at this one kind of goes, whoop up there. It's like the stinger on a scorpion down here. Is this common for all states to do? We handed it over to a kindergarten class and let them decide. Okay. How to that? That's the non-partisan group that does this for you guys. That's our independent commission, you know. That is, yeah, I mean, look. So because all states, to a certain extent, do this, why is what Texas doing particular egregious in this case? Well, here, every 10 years we do a census in this country, and right after the census, we redraw districts in every state.

But what the Republicans are trying to do, and the Texas Republicans, frankly, at the behest of Donald Trump, are doing it mid-decade. That is extraordinarily rare. That's an important point because I think he literally called them or wrote them and said, hey, I need five seats. Now, as a matter of record, it is untrue that almost all states wait for the 10-year window to do any kind of redistricting.

The majority of states in commonwealths in the United States do often redistrict their maps based on population movements, new laws, both at the state legislature level, as well as the national legislature level, States also have the opportunity to redistrict based on a state census instead of a federal census, internal and external catalysts. And last but not least, WNBA players are threatening to sit out if they aren't paid more because at least as far as Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky described, there are new rookies expected to come into the league that might be paid more than she is. Here you go.

We all did it. Yeah, the CBA is coming up. I can't wait. Girl, y'all benefited from everything. Y'all young people benefited from NIL. What does that mean? We deserve more. Of course.

I agree. Everybody. I agree with that. But we got to get a face of consequence. What? We got to get up there. Y'all got to deal with something. Y'all got to do something.

But the women coming in, what, not this year, but next year. The ones coming in this year will still be on the rookie contract again. The ones that the year after, they're going to get more. It probably going to be making more than us. No, they are. I'm hurt. They are. Like, yeah.

I've been in the meetings. They are. I need to get in the, I need to get the field. You need to come to the meetings. I need to get in the meetings because I'm hearing like, yeah, they don't give, if y'all don't give us what we want, like, we sit down. That's a possibility, for real. Here's the issue with that, though. Right now, according to Polymarket, there is a major betting trend going on regarding the WNBA,

but it has nothing at all to do with the players because there is currently, uh, there is currently, uh, one particular event, a trend perhaps, that has been going on that is now being bet on far more than any player and performance in the WNBA. This is the practice of throwing neon green sex toys on to the floor of WNBA games. As of now, there have been at least four games in which an individual has attempted to throw a lime green sex toy onto the court. In three instances, the toy made it on to the court, and in one instance on the fifth, the toy did not make it on to the court, but instead slapped a child in the face. Because of this, the WNBA has issued a no-bag policy for any of its games, lest there be additional sex toys which slip through.

While Coach Plum of the Indiana fever said that they just want to ignore that particular trend as much as possible, not give it any oxygen. Los Angeles Sparks coach Lynn Roberts said it's ridiculous, it's dumb, it's stupid, and it's also dangerous. And you know, player safety is number one, respecting the game, all those things. I'm not sure what injuries she is suggesting could occur by throwing a silicone sex toy onto the court of a WNBA game. But to be fair, I'm not sure the coach of the Los Angeles Sparks is used to getting interview questions, so it may have taken her off guard. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnettcast and join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern for a roundup of the day's news and

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