PresidentDonald Trumpgot a little mixed up this week while praising Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Or, as Trump called him, “Tim Apple.”
In a Wednesday meeting at the White House for the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, the president sat down with daughterIvanka Trump, Cook and others to lead a discussion about the importance of technology-related jobs and education.
Video footage from multiple sources, includingThe GuardianandCNBC, shows Trump praising the tech mogul for his contributions in the field before getting his name wrong while sitting right next to him.
“We’re going to be opening up the labor forces, because we have to,” said the president, 72. “We have so many companies coming in. People like Tim, you’reexpanding all over and doing thingsthat 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,” Trump continued. “We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook (left) and President Donald Trump.SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty
Twitter users — as usual — had many reactions to the surname snafu.
Among them was the first daughter herself: Ivankatweeted a string of crying-laughing emojiin response to aDaily Showvideo rounding up previous times the president has called someone the wrong name.
“Can’twait for the meetingwith ‘Bill Microsoft’ and ‘Jeff Amazon,’ " another user joked, referencing tech titansBill GatesandJeff Bezos,while another wrote, referencingMark Zuckerberg, “He’s meeting Mark Facebook tomorrow.”
“‘Please, Tim Apple is my work name. Call me Mr. iPhone,’ " anothertweeted in jestof an alternate conversation that could’ve happened behind the scenes.
Cook himself seemed to take it all in stride: Later Thursday he changed his name on Twitter to (what else?) Tim Apple — with his company’s famous logo subbing in for his last name.
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At the Wednesday White House meeting with Cook, Trump switched to discussing border control after his name, saying, “We have to bring people in. We want them to be people based on merit and we want them to come in legally — you see what’s going on at the border.”
“Human trafficking is a disaster — nobody knew too much about it until recently,” Trump said. “It’s been going on for a million years, actually. It’s been going on for a long time.”
source: people.com
