No dog in this fight, and I agree with the premise, however there was never a time Apple made a ton of noise about MacBooks being manufactured in the US.

There was a ton of noise about Mac Pros being manufactured in the US, but sadly, I am not nearly as familiar with Apple after, say 2018*. Not even sure if they have a Mac Pro anymore. :X and if they do, I assume it's not the same model (the black trashcan), so it makes me wonder if they bothered retooling here, or quietly moved it somewhere else

* TL;Dr at some point it became clear to me Cook is Sculley 2.0. I date it to around walking around NYC and seeing an absurd amount of Apple News bus-stop ads. Services! (TM)

Apple won the phone wars because it did not allow the Microsoft Windows playbook to repeat itself. The only way to stop that was to hire an expert from a PC company and deploy significant American capital to buy up all the available offshore capacity to efficiently produce that new class of product before the potential competition could even take it seriously. I blame Apple for a lot, but going to bed with the CCP is not one of them. They were forced to play the game that was created by the Taiwanese PC clone manufacturers that used cheap Chinese labor to outcompete American based manufacturers, including Apple. Blame AST and IBM (who, after opening the hardware to create the PC clone business, ironically sold its own to Lenovo in a final spit on America.)

If Apple didn't take such an investment risk in China, then we'd all have Windows Phones now and Android would have been canceled long ago.

Bringing it back? The DNC pivoting to expand entitlements beyond sick, elderly and legacy civil rights victims to leverage economic downturns greatly expanded their political base in California and also played a major role in locking the door behind Apple, CISCO and others, leaving all the supporting manufacturing tech and processes to evolve elsewhere. Consider what happened when a billionaire tried to open up Tesla down the road from Apple's original Fremont manufacturing facility. Texas has grown rich building up as a California alternative, but doing more than moving people out of California, actually bringing back overseas operations that would have gone to California had it not devolved into an economic wasteland, required a powerful financial incentive and Trump has finally given one.

Much as it might be pandering to Trump's nationalist (America first / American only) policies, or simply an action to avoid some of the effects of tariffs that might be imposed, this time around, I see no such connection for the 2021 announcement. Unless they are connected as they are a more generic "pleasing the incoming administration" to try curry favour for when decisions that might affect the company are being made.

He won the popular vote. His base is the majority of Americans lol