.MaddowBlog: Whether Pres. Trump likes it or not, sometimes the truth is just easier.
Donald Trump hosted a relatively uneventful White House meeting last week of his American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which includes a variety of prominent private-sector leaders. In fact, the president sat next to the CEO one of the world’s largest companies: Apple’s Tim Cook.
Trump told the donors that he actually said “Tim Cook Apple” really fast, and the “Cook” part of the sentence was soft. But all you heard from the “fake news,” he said, was “Tim Apple.” That’s entirely right. Last week’s minor error – he very clearly said “Tim Apple” – was unimportant, but Trump apparently didn’t appreciate being the target of harmless jokes, even for a day. And so he lied, again, even when the truth would’ve been easier.
Postscript: The official White House transcript, apparently eager to make the president feel better, used some creative punctuation. In reality, Trump said, “We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.” The official transcript, however, reports that the president said, “We appreciate it very much, Tim – Apple.”
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