https://finance.yahoo.com/video/did-apple-trump-big-economic-193900724.html
The arguments are say yes and no. But mostly yes. And Apple is one among others. The spill over effects can be even greater.
For gaining a better understanding here's one report of Apple's announced intentions:
https://qz.com/1182103/apple-will-s...s-and-offices-from-its-repatriated-cash-pile/
In its announcement, Apple didn't mention Trump specifically. Nevertheless, Trump did convince the Republican dominated Congress to address this matter of stashed overseas cash hoards held by American companies. 20k new jobs is nothing to sneeze about. We can hope that other companies with cash hoards overseas act similarly for the benefit of themselves and the nation. Apple has raised the bar for all of them. It looks like Apple is bringing $250 billion of its overseas assets to the US. This is the first announcement from Apple as to what Apple will be doing with a portion of that money. Keep in mind, tho the media is calling this a repatriation of money, it is not. It is money earned overseas that was never in the US. No one, no company, can repatriate here what didn't exist here.
Apple equities reached an all time high of 179.39 yesterday, after a seeming breakout with Friday's closing price, tho it closed yesterday at 176.19, about a 90¢ loss from Friday's close. Today Apple closed at 179.10.
Furthermore, I contend Trump, while playing the vulgar fool in public, is actually deflecting the media and the Democrats from his true agenda. Critics don't like his public performance, and the Democrats are in a tizzy of hate for him, and the same with the Republican hierarchy, yet he is doing exactly what he said he would do. He is attacking the status quo as he promised during his campaign. Meanwhile he has moved a non-performing congress into actions, regardless of whether critics are happy with those actions. He has single handedly forced the new construction of a Hudson railroad freight tunnel, a neglected corridor of two more than 100 year old dual tunnels, in dire need of maintenance to a point where both are collapsing and unsafe, through which 47% of this nation's GDP flows. He has forced the opening of dialogs this country as a whole has hidden from: white supremacy, foreign aid to despotic corrupt governments which would be glad to stab us in the back, allies which hate us yet depend on us to pay their way inn this world as they call us fools, bigotry in general and so on. Meanwhile he accomplished a quality first year term in office that any other president would have been proud of. I'm not suggesting we should all love him. I'm stating we all should recognize he is not the picture he paints of himself, a clown in makeup and the emperor's new clothes. He's a shrewd old businessman who holds his left hand over his head to catch the eye, while he attacks with the right hand. During the old wars of shield war battles, shields were held high, as attacks were made under the shield with a stabbing seax, a combination long knife, short sword. Those with battle axes and long swords died. Those who used a seax survived and won the battles.
I'll grant anyone credit who claims Obama gave us a quality economy. I grant anyone credit who understands Trump has taken the ball from Obama and run with it. I'll grant credit to anyone who understands Obama tried to end bigotry by hiding it. I'll grant anyone credit who understand that Trump has brought bigotry to the forefront of a necessary dialog. And we can do the same with all social actions that have failed to end what we dislike about ourselves as a nation. When before has a president who campaigned against the status quo, actually kept his word and turned the status quo on its head? Yes, he has stumbled on the bunts, but he keeps getting up to the batting box.