President Trump threatened Apple (AAPL) on Friday with 25% duties on overseas-made iPhones, the latest entry in a long list of company-specific tariff threats from the president stretching back to his first term in office.

He also has a history of not following through on these warnings, often ending them with a claim of victory or by simply dropping the issue.

Trump himself alluded to the frequency of his threats, writing Friday that he "long ago informed [Apple CEO] Tim Cook" of his position and his focus on iPhone manufacturing in India. The president added that not complying would take the form of a tariff that "must be paid by Apple to the U.S."

The companies that Trump has singled out in a similar manner since his first administration range from John Deere (DE) to General Motors (GM) and others. He has also made previous threats against Apple dating back to 2016, even before he took office.

"Companies like Apple will start making their iPhones and other products inside the United States," Trump promised that year when part of his first campaign's platform was 35% tariffs on companies if they move overseas.

In recent weeks, Trump has also called out at least four other companies by name — Walmart (WMT), Amazon (AMZN), Ford (F), and Mattel (MAT) — over the possibility that they could raise prices due to tariffs.

The threats from Trump do have the ability to affect investor sentiment. Apple's stock fell more than 2% on Friday morning following Trump's warning, issued on Truth Social.

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In Apple’s case, in spite of Trump’s years of threats and the recent opening of new US Apple manufacturing facilities around AI and silicon engineering, no iPhones are currently made in the United States now as in 2016 and that isn’t seen as likely to change anytime soon.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives quickly reacted to Trump’s threat by posting that a scenario of Apple acceding to Trump “would result in an iPhone price point [of ~$3,500 and] that is a non-starter for Cupertino."

He offered more details as to why in a note to investors, citing an “upside down cost model and Herculean-like supply chain logistics needed for such an initiative.”

Also Friday morning, Trump announced he was "recommending" a 50% tariff on the European Union in a separate post that quickly drove down broader markets alongside the Apple broadside.

An array of company threats

Another company often in focus for Trump during his most recent presidential campaign was John Deere, with Trump last September promising a 200% tariff on the company over "everything that you want to sell into the United States" amid concerns that the company would move operations to Mexico.

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Trump relented and suggested his threats had worked in claims that John Deere at the time dismissed as fictional.

Something similar happened to other manufacturers in 2017 when Trump threatened both Toyota and GM with a "big border tax" over production facilities in Mexico.

Since those auto threats were issued, there have not been significant shifts in auto company production. These companies continue to split between various countries with both continuing to operate manufacturing facilities in both Mexico and the US today.President Donald Trump waves before departing the White House in Washington Thursday evening to head to his Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)·MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images

The number of companies Trump has threatened over the years grows much longer when threats over non-tariff issues are included.

That is a list that stretches to dozens or perhaps hundreds of companies and has been a mainstay of the president's time in public life even down to a threat of prosecution during the last campaign against Google (GOOG) for "only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump."

Trump’s new move against Apple appears to be in reaction to news earlier this week that Foxconn will invest an additional $1.5 billion in factories in India as part of a larger shift out of China.

What’s also unclear is what action Trump could take if he looks to target this facility and iPhone production more generally.

The tools Trump has relied on tariff authority for far in his second term give him wide latitude to impose tariffs on entire nations with his "Liberation day" actions relying on a 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Other powers let him target sectors like steel or semiconductors but can require investigations and have not historically been aimed at specific companies.

Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

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