Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook declined a White House invitation to join Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang and others on President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang, The New York Times’ Tripp Mickle reports, citing two people familiar with the decision. On Friday, Trump’s threatened a 25% tariff on iPhones made anywhere except the U.S., a little over a month after Apple’s Cook won an exemption from a 145% tariff on Chinese goods.
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