During a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory board at the White House yesterday, Trump referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as “Tim Apple,” a name that is totally not his name.
In the video (below), Trump says:
“We’re going to be opening up the labor forces because we have to. We have so many companies coming in. People like Tim—you’re expanding all over and doing things that I really wanted you to do right from the beginning. I used to say: ‘Tim, you’ve got to start doing it over here’ and you really have. I mean, you’ve really put a big investment into the country. We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.”
This slip was made more hilarious by the fact that Trump referred to Cook as “a friend of mine.” (Friends remember friends’ last names, Donald Russia.)
To Trump’s very meagre credit, he got Cook’s name correct elsewhere in yesterday’s comments. But we shouldn’t be surprised by his misnaming Cook because he once called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, “Marillyn Lockheed.”
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And naturally, people are mocking Trump all over Twitter for his mistake:
Some other industry giants besides #TimApple for @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/RtLHBnmQwp
— William Mitchell (@kRaSh32) March 7, 2019
Tim Apple pic.twitter.com/aa4fCL0Fff
— Jake G (@incubatedeleph1) March 7, 2019
‘Sorry Tim Apple, gotta go. I have an important meeting with Jeff Amazon and Kevin Instagram.’ https://t.co/SNp49ZpZp7
— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) March 7, 2019
Tim, meet your long lost brother Pine. ?#TimApple
— The Comment Reviewer (@pseudoComment) March 7, 2019
If Trump thinks the Apple CEO is Tim Apple, he definitely believes President Moon is the president of the actual moon.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 7, 2019
The scandal is not that Trump called Tim Cook Tim Apple. The scandal is Tim Cook being in the same room with and giving legitimacy to the stupid asshole who called him Tim Apple. https://t.co/3BNHfS8Uly
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) March 7, 2019
Granted, Trump makes so many missteps that he often finds himself immortalized in mocking memes, like the memes that came out following his needless Christmas-government shutdown, his weird meeting with Kanye West and the time the United Nations laughed in his big orange face.
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As for Cook, he seemed to take the slip-up graciously and offered intelligent comments about how Apple is helping create curriculum to teach coding in K-12 schools and colleges.
Cook took over Apple from its former CEO Steve Jobs in 2011. Before then, Cook was Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, helping the company expand overseas. Cook publicly came out as gay in 2014, the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to do so.
Wicked Dickie
I did not know Tim Cook is gay. Funny that all the business news, political pundits, commentators and customers just say “Tim Cook of Apple”, or “Apple’s Tim Cook”, or just plain ol “Tim Cook” (Or Tim Apple from Trump), but good old for Queerty it’s “Apple’s gay CEO, Tim Cook.” Oh brother.
DCguy
Yes, because when they don’t do that the exact same accounts come on here and say “How is this a gay story?”
Kangol
You must have missed his public coming out. It was a huge deal.
@HarryB at imgur-rd.ml
Tim “Apple” made public coming out several years ago.
DCguy
Look, the fact is, in spite of every troll screaming about what a winner Trump is, or trying to deflect off of any mistake, crime, or idiotic thing he does here are a few hard facts.
He inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, he blew threw it all, lost it in bad business dealings, declared bankruptcy multiple times, is now in debt hundreds of millions to foreign lenders.
That isn’t a good businessman, that is a spoiled kid who overspent his allowance.
Kieran
He seems to be living very nicely indeed. Trump’s father may have been a wealthy real estate investor, but he never became a multi-billionaire like his son. Enough with the sour grapes.
DCguy
@Kieran
Sweetie if you’re going to lie, at least try to do better.
Trump’s father was one of the wealthiest people in the country, he funneled hundreds of millions to Trump, Trump burned through it, went bankrupt and is now in massive debt.
Claiming that Trump “Appears to be living well” is like saying “Gee, they have such a nice car and house, I can’t believe that they are in massive credit card debt.”
The debt with Deutchbank AND the bankruptcies are VERIFIED. If you have to lie to back up your point, you’ve already lost.
truthseeker
@DCguy
All businesses have debt. Claiming someone “isn’t a good businessman” because the company they run has debt is absurd.
Tim Apple’s (Cook lol) company has $87.5 billion in long-term debt and a $10 billion bond offering of debt. I don’t think you’d say they’re bad business people. With high-end New York real estate, it’s not shocking for developers to have debt, especially when interest rates are so low.
If interests rates are lower than your rate of return, then you rack up debt to boost your assets, but I guess your talking points never went that far into the economics end of it.
Jboo
@truthseeker, Didn’t you get the memo? Liberals don’t have to use facts or logic. They only have to use words like shook or woke. So obvy.
draven
Getting old is not for sissy s quote Betty Davis