Tuesday, April 15, 2025

I Can’t Stop Watching Trump Call Tim Cook From Apple, ‘Tim Apple’ [Video]

Tim Cook is kind of a big deal, but it seems like POTUS can't fathom the idea that businesses aren't always named after the people who run them.

Jeff Amazon, Bill Windows, Mark Zuckerbook, Tim Apple.

Donald Trump loves nothing more than splashing his last name on everything possible – Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump Vodka, Trump University – you get the drift.

Perhaps that’s why he’s unable to fathom the idea that the man who now heads Apple, Tim Cook, isn’t actually called Tim Apple.

Pay special attention to Ivanka’s face, as she realises once more that her father has made a buffoon of himself:

A seamless segue from talking about technology education and jobs, to talking about the “invasion” from Mexico.

Drugs! Human trafficking! Build the wall!

Trump has a habit of fluffing names (he called Nepal ‘Nipple’, Bhutan ‘Button’ and Namibia ‘Nambia’), but there is also a clear parallel between Tim Apple and this flub.

Remember that time he called the Lockheed Martin CEO, Marillyn Hewson, “Marillyn Lockheed”?

“It’s stealth, you cannot see it.”

[source:verge]