Apple Inc. (AAPL) Has To Spend Money To Win Over President Trump, Says Jim Cramer

We recently published 10 Stocks On Jim Cramer’s Radar As He Says Trump Has Been Good For Growth. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the world’s largest consumer electronics firm, has had a rough 2025 as the shares have lost 13.6% year-to-date. The weakness in the share price has caught Cramer’s attention. The CNBC TV host believes that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) needs to make an AI acquisition to catch up with rivals. Yet, he also believes that talk about CEO Tim Cook’s resignation is premature. Cramer believes that a potential Cook successor should be hardware-focused. This time, he discussed what the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO might have to do in order to achieve the same clout at the White House as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang:

“[On what would it take for Cook to have the same clout with Trump as Huang] Well you know what’s funny, they have the MP Materials deal today. Put in 500 million dollars. . .This is for recycled metals. But Tim Cook has to do, and I feel bad telling Tim Cook, like who am I, sorry Tim. But what he has to do he has to spend that 500 billion over four years. He has to front load it. He has to say, listen, I’m committing a 100 billion right now in Montana and what we’re going to do is we’re gonna have the largest, we’re gonna have the largest part of the cellphone ever right here. And then, you know what the President would do, the President would say I never want to see a Samsung phone, ever.”

Previously, the CNBC TV host discussed Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s CEO in detail:

“[On analysts saying Tim Cook should leave] I wanted to say, I thought it was outrageous. I thought that was outrageous. I wish that I could’ve, that I would love to be able to be Tim Cook and say what I’ve done for the shareholders. And it’s just incredible. The amount of wealth that man has created. I mean that’s like when I saw, at one point today I saw in premarket that NVIDIA was down. I was going to call for Jensen’s firing. . .I mean come on. . .you know Jensen has to go. Can we like stop? Like stop? Like Tim Cook’s great.”

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