Amid Donald Trump-imposed tariffs, Apple has announced what it called largest-ever spending commitment, $500 billion over four years.

The order required Apple to develop the capability to defeat the strong encryption in its optional Advanced Data Protection cloud data storage.

“Apple has just announced a record 500-billion-dollar investment in the United States of America, Trump said. “The reason, faith in what we are doing, without which, they wouldn’t be investing ten cents. Thank you, Tim Cook, and Apple.”

There were more than 4.5 million removals, returns and expulsions from February 2021, President Joe Biden’s first month in office, to November 2024.