mega cap tech stocks far from immune of course to the recent market volatility falling again

today well actually up a little bit yesterday though more than four percent lower despite

many of the CEOs of these companies efforts to court the trump administration dear

drubosa digs into that as the subject to today's tech check, Deirdre.

It didn't do a whole lot, David, tariffs, they're hitting Apple, FTC versus Meta.

That's moving ahead today.

And infrastructure costs, they are rising for the mega caps that have staked their futures on building and delivering AI.

So not only has big techs courtship not paid off, but they're facing arguably more uncertainty

and hostility than they did during the previous administration.

Just a reminder audience, tech kicked off the second Trump presidency with visits to Mara Lago,

front row seats, millions of dollars in donations to Trump's inauguration, hundreds of billions of

dollars, and American manufacturing projects for Trump to take credit for.

And that was a major contrast to Trump 1.0 when tech leaders, they kept their distance and they

clash publicly with the White House.

Now, let's go through them.

For Apple, there's no indication that Tim Cook's playbook during that first administration

is working this time around.

And it looks unlikely that it's unable to avoid rising iPhone costs, at least right now.

The company reportedly airlifting 600 tons of iPhones from India to beat the tariffs and shares.

They're down 15% since Trump was sworn in.

There's meta and Alphabet, meanwhile, that stand to lose control of some of their most critical and

lucrative businesses. Today, the FTC's antitrust trial against meta kicks off. That could

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