“We appreciate it very much Tim Apple,” Trump said as Cook nodded along, sending social media into a frenzy.
President Donald Trump praised veteran technology CEO Tim Cook yesterday during a meeting in the White House by calling him “Tim Apple” directly to his face.
Both “Tim Apple” and “Tim Cook” were trending terms on Twitter this morning, and a video of the comment posted by Sean O’Kane, a reporter at The Verge, has now been viewed more than six million times. It has generated more than 45,000 comments and over 150,000"likes." Trump said: “We’re going to be opening up the labor forces, because we have to. We have so many companies coming. People like Tim, you’re expanding all over and doing things that I really wanted you to right from the beginning. I used to say, ‘Tim, you got to start doing it over here.’ And you really have. I mean, you’ve really put a big investment in our country.”
In the transcript of the meeting, posted online by the White House yesterday, administration officials seemingly attempted to spin the comment as being “Tim — Apple,” indicating there was supposed to be a pause between the name and a reference to Cook’s company. In any case, it’s on video for the world to judge.
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