Overview
- Tim Cook attended the Tokyo business leaders event as part of President Trump’s entourage at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence.
- President Trump delivered roughly a 40‑minute speech in which he praised Cook and cited Apple’s American Manufacturing Program at around $600–650 billion.
- Trump emphasized faster permitting for projects in the United States as he highlighted large corporate investment figures.
- No new Apple-specific pledges were announced during the dinner, according to reports from the event.
- Other attendees included Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Rakuten’s Hiroshi Mikitani, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and Cook had just returned from a week in China.