If they made their current net annual income for the entirety of their existence (not even close), then they would've needed to be taxed ~50% to have reached $1 trillion in taxes.

I get (or at least hope) that it's an exaggeration, but I'm not too keen on seemingly witty phrases without substance that get repeated everywhere.

How much has Apple paid? How about all the employees? Shareholders? How many millions of jobs has Apple created? I am pretty sure that the net economic value created by Apple has far outstripped any alleged deficiencies in they taxes.

And if you did tax them at 50% would they have innovated and hired as many people as they have? As a thought experiment, would Apple have been as successful if it were started in Paris rather than in a Los Altos garage? Why doesn’t Europe have more companies valued in the hundreds or billions? Why is there little Silicon Valley-style garage-based entrepreneurship in France? Culture is one aspect, but taxes and regulations are the primary reason. If you tax something, you get less of it.