US President Donald Trump during a meal with tech leaders successful the State Dining Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
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President Donald Trump connected Friday threatened to motorboat a commercialized probe to "nullify" what helium said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms specified arsenic Google and Apple.
"We cannot fto this hap to superb and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I volition beryllium forced to commencement a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies," Trump wrote connected Truth Social.
He issued the menace hours aft Google caught a astir $3.5 cardinal penalty from the European Union successful a large antitrust lawsuit centered connected the hunt giant's advertizing exertion business.
The president complained that Europe was "effectively taking wealth that would different spell to American Investments and Jobs."
"This is connected apical of the galore different Fines and Taxes that person been issued against Google and different American Tech Companies, successful particular," Trump wrote. "Very unfair, and the American Taxpayer volition not basal for it!"
He besides called retired the EU for squeezing billions of dollars from Apple successful backmost taxes and fines for alleged anticompetitive practices.
The station claimed that Apple has been fined $17 billion, but that fig appears to see a 2024 tribunal ruling ordering the institution to wage implicit $14 billion successful backmost taxes.
Apple "should get their wealth back!" Trump wrote.
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