Hour 2: Diddy Pardon?
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. New York. |
| 0:02.1 | Mark Simone on W.O.R. |
| 0:07.2 | Hey, well, there's a lot going on. |
| 0:09.6 | President Trump has said special announcement at 4 o'clock today. |
| 0:14.6 | I think I know what the announcement is. |
| 0:16.4 | It's going to be about Apple agreeing to spend another hundred billion here in the U.S. |
| 0:22.0 | Make more stuff here. |
| 0:23.8 | Manufacturing plant here. |
| 0:25.8 | You know what a lot of the car companies do. |
| 0:27.6 | Because I'll explain to you, if you built the iPhone in America with unions, you know, workers, the phone would cost $9,000. |
| 0:37.5 | That's why they make all this stuff in China. |
| 0:39.8 | And they use slave labor. |
| 0:41.2 | They use sweatshops. |
| 0:43.3 | And over there, you can get the workers to work 36-hour shifts, pay them three cents a week. |
| 0:49.7 | That kind of stuff. |
| 0:50.7 | Everybody looks the other way on that because they want the iPhone to be cheaper. |
| 0:54.7 | But I can do what some of the car companies do, which basically make everything overseas, |
| 0:59.0 | just assemble it here or something like that or just package it here. |
| 1:03.1 | But expect that announcement today, maybe even in coordination with Tim Cook, or as Trump |
| 1:09.3 | calls him, Tim Apple. |
| 1:11.1 | So that'll be later today. |
| 1:12.6 | This talk of pardons, the president getting a lot of people asking about |
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