Rush Hour: Trump threatens Apple with tariff, Rahul Gandhi criticises S Jaishankar and more

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President Donald Trump on Friday said that technology company Apple could face a 25% tariff on iPhones sold in the United States if they were not manufactured in the country. In a social media post, Trump said he had informed Apple’s Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook that he expects iPhones being sold in the US to be manufactured in the country, and not in “India, or anyplace else”.

This came a week after Trump said he had told Cook not to expand Apple’s production in India. Read on.

Saying that “India’s foreign policy has collapsed”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to explain New Delhi’s global standing after Operation Sindoor.

“Why has India been hyphenated with Pakistan?” Gandhi asked Jaishankar on social media. “Why didn’t a single country back us in condemning Pakistan? Who asked [US President Donald] Trump to ‘mediate’ between India and Pakistan?”

While Trump has repeated several times his claim that the ceasefire talks between India and Pakistan were mediated by Washington, New Delhi has said the decision to stop firing was taken bilaterally and that there was no...

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