Despite our repeated denials, he has boasted at least 7 times on various platforms around the world that he is the person who stopped the war between India and Pakistan. Before this, he has called India the ‘tariff king’ not once but many times on various platforms in the US and the world and now he is bent on publicly insulting us. The way he is threatening the iPhone manufacturer ‘Apple’ not to make iPhones in India, what is the reason that Trump has gone after us so badly.
On May 23
, 2025, Trump reiterated for the third time that ‘Apple’ should make iPhones not in India but in the US. Not only this, he directly threatened Apple CEO Tim Cook and said that if he does not do so, he will impose at least 25 percent tariff on them. After Trump’s threat, Apple’s shares fell by 4 percent, causing them to lose billions of dollars. But Trump did not stop his actions. The question is why is Trump adopting such an arrogant political style? In fact, he is doing this so that he can gain the status of the most powerful president in the political history of America. To understand Trump’s overall behavior, we will have to take a closer look at his political style, America’s needs, his power struggle with China and India-US relations.
We already know that Trump is a businessman and his thinking, language and strategy also confirm this tone. ‘I’ constantly dominates his conversations, ‘I made a deal’, ‘I caused a ceasefire’, ‘I made China bend to my terms’ etc. Only Trump can make such statements. In fact, he does not respect any country or politician of any country for ‘deal-making’; He tries to put pressure on them publicly. Instead of repeatedly taking credit for stopping the war between India and Pakistan and telling the people of India, he is trying to send a message to his American supporters that he is not a small leader but a global leader, he has a status in the world, who has stopped a nuclear war.
In fact, by saying this, he not only pats himself on the back but also creates the necessary numbers for his popularity. If it were any other leader, he would feel ashamed that despite saying it seven times, India has not confirmed his claim even once; on the contrary, India has repeatedly denied it and made it clear that it did not declare a ceasefire due to the mediation of any other country. If it were any other politician, he would consider it an insult to him, but Trump is not paying any attention to it. He claims in a one-sided tone that India and Pakistan were ready to fight and die, it was he who brought about reconciliation between the two. Donald Trump has been targeting India during his first term as a country that imposes heavy taxes on American products. Trump often repeats that India levies heavy taxes on products like American automobiles, electronics and wine, while America does not.
In fact, America is in a deficit in trade between India and America. Therefore, Trump, through his aggressive strategy, repeatedly calls India the ‘tariff king’ and wants to pressure us to import not only the things we need from America, but also the things that America wants to sell at any price. America wants to sell its dairy and alcohol products to India at any price. But Indians do not like American dairy products, because they are generally carnivorous rather than vegetarian. India does not want to open its agricultural economy to the US at any cost and Trump wants to open it at any cost and keeps getting angry again and again.
When Trump came to power last time, he wanted to use India as a puppet against China. The last time the Trump administration opened a major economic and diplomatic front against China, he was expecting the same from India. Trump wanted India to minimize its trade with China, but India did not do so. India is involuntarily more dependent on China than the US for its daily needs and Chinese products are suitable for the Indian economy and Indian consumers, because their tariffs are cheap, which hurts the US a lot. Trump could not use India as a puppet against China even if he wanted to, which bothers him. Now that an American company like Apple has shifted its factory from China to India, Trump, who usually looks at China, is now looking at ‘Apple’. He wants Apple to move out of China and start manufacturing in the US. Although Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is a friend of Trump, he must have told this to Tim Cook personally first.
But in America, such bullying does not work in personal relationships, which is why Tim Cook listened to Trump’s suggestion with one ear and threw it out of the other. When Trump felt that Tim Cook was not paying any attention to what he said, he started criticizing Apple on public platforms. Trump has also threatened that if Apple does not agree to stop production in India, then a 25 percent tax will be imposed on Apple in the US, which is a clear mockery of Trump’s ‘America First’ concept, which is why he is upset. If Apple
