Yesterday, Donald Trump was doing his grumpy-sucky-baby thing at the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting at the White House. Several members of the advisory board are big-name titans of American industry. One of those people? Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Tim Cook is a pretty well-known figure in corporate circles. His name is TIM COOK. But Donald Trump called him “Tim Apple.” Seriously.
People were like “….???” Here’s the exact transcript:
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 gotta start doing it here,’ and you really have you’ve really put a big investment in our country. We really appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.
The Verge also points out that this isn’t the first time Trump has made this particular name/job mistake before. When he met the CEO of Lockheed Martin, Marillyn Hewson, he called her Marillyn Lockheed. LMAO.
Obviously, people turned it into a meme based on First Name + Where You Work, but let’s be real. Donald Trump doesn’t follow that exact pattern. He’s using identifiers in his mind and those identifiers spill out sometimes. Some days it’s Tim Apple, but maybe tomorrow it will be Tim Gay. Omarosa Manigault was probably Omarosa Black. Chris Christie is probably Chris Pizza, or Chris Jersey.
Calling Tim Cook Tim Apple to his face is my version of the American dream. I want to look Bill Gates in the eye and call him Jim Microsoft.
— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) March 7, 2019
Donald Trump called Tim Cook (Apple's CEO), "Tim Apple" during a White House visit. His next set of guests include Bill Microsoft, Jack Twitter, Sergey Google, Elon Tesla, and Mark Facebook.
— James Kosur (@JamesKosur) March 7, 2019
I suspect in the demented mind of Trump, Tim Cook is Tim Apple and he is Donald America. pic.twitter.com/qJKw4EcGMd
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) March 7, 2019
Ahh New York City, the Tim Apple
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) March 7, 2019
How about Tim Apples? pic.twitter.com/uAclVjbjRq
— Bryan Paulk (@thebryanpaulk) March 7, 2019
"Please, Tim Apple is my work name. Call me Mr. iPhone." https://t.co/8xcbH8p9cy
— Travon Free (@Travon) March 7, 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
The best tweet I saw about this was someone tweeted that they would be willing to dance naked in central park if only Tim Cook would have replied: Thank you, Donald Collusion.
lol
Omg, haha that would be priceless indeed.
Even weirder than the name gaffe, reading this quote it sounds like Trump is trying to take credit for Apple’s success? JFC.
Oh, my goddess, I am so glad I didn’t have a sip of coffee in my mouth when I read this! My laptop would have gotten wrecked.
One thing I notice about picture of them is that Tim Apple is recoiling from Donnie Collusion. His body language speaks volumes. He probably went home and debugged after that luncheon.
This is funny but at the same time I misspeak like this on a regular basis. I guess if I was a world leader the press would have a field day. My family keeps teasing me because this year I repeatedly kept calling Thanksgiving as Halloween instead. My brain is broken.
It’s not funny that Fat Nixon can’t be bothered to remember someone’s name. At best, it is disrespectful. At worse, it is another sign that the guy with the nuclear codes has serious cognitive decline.
Yep.
If there was someone qualified at 1600 and made this goof (we have all had brain farts) yeah, you can laugh it off.
But no, this is the person that wants to kill us.
yeah, this worries me. he was so obviously using their companies as (as noted) identifiers, or pneumonic devices. it’s something a child would do. seriously disturbing and worrying.
whoops, I meant mnemonic. hahahahaha!
I’m worse. I read it as demonic devices.
Fat Nixon! Ha!
I think calling Trump “Fat Nixon” is unfair to Nixon. Nixon might have been a crummy president, but at least he did create the Title X Family Planning Program (the thing that funds Planned Parenthood).
And the EPA, as well.
I definitely think he has cognitive decline but like I make this type of mistake ALL THE TIME. Like sometimes if I’m talking to someone about someone i’ll call them that person’s name. LOL I find new and creative ways to embarrass myself.
And of course donald dump’s handler/daughter is there with him… Where is the justice when good people die and people like dump live on for years and years?
Boy , that is a question. I ask myself that question nearly every day.
This is Nagini’s project and she has been hyping it heavily, using our tax dollars, for weeks. It’s mission is vague and fuzzy and a total Nagini word salad.
Sometimes the most kind people have the least years, and the least kind sometimes get the most. I don’t understand it, either.
I am SO sick of the “I told you to do this and now you are, yay me!” No you did not. And I would be seriously disappointed on anyone who took business advice from Trump.
I said something similar above. As if Tim Apple and Donald Collusion (thanks Darla via Twitter) are even remotely in the same league, business acumen-wise.
Donald Orange called an actual billionaire Tim Apple?
Never mix apples and oranges, Emperor Zero!
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*spit!*
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LMAO. Perfect.
He’s such an idiot. The funny thing is that my husband and I do this with our subcontractors and vendors as a kind of shorthand – rather than saying “Bill from X or Bill from Y” every time, we say the sub’s first name and their company’s last name. Of course, we would never call them those names to their faces… takes a special kind of stupid to do that…
it absolutely makes sense, and is helpful…but, as you said, you don’t call them that to their faces.
it’s like “the wall”…that started out as a device to simply help him remember to talk about immigration during his campaign speeches and he’s so f*cking stupid that he said the actual words instead of using it to remember his topics.
The only thing funny are the comments and memes.
Then we have to stop laughing and face the orange thing that is 45.
Laughter is good medicine but is not a cure for fat orange poisoning. 💩🍔
Chef
Love “fat orange poisoning”
I can come into work today. I have fat orange poisoning.
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Can’t! Can’t!
This was Nagini’s big project and she has been traveling about, on our money, hyping it for weeks, going into maximum blanket overdrive coverage on Twitter the last few days, trying to promote herself as some sort of workplace development savior/guru/visionary and Daddy stole her big moment by making an utter fool of himself.
Didn’t Apple get some big concessions in the China “trade deal”? This must be the way Tim Apple has to pay back the Trumps. He sits next to Donny at the meeting and lets DT call him any name that pops into his head. Since Tim Cook is an openly gay man, I guess we know why Mike Pence wasn’t at the meeting.
I’m more concerned about Trump blocking “fake news media” from Presidential debates next year. I’m actually skeptical that this goof was legit. I kind of wonder if it was intended to distract from the news that Trump’s trade policies are widen the trade deficit in the exact areas he said they wouldn’t.
To some extent, trade deficits aren’t necessarily a bad thing, and our current one is mainly a result of economic growth, but the tax cuts are also contributing – and the deficit is about to top one trillion as a result of them, too. The fact that it’s opposite of what he promised is hilarious on a maddening level of understanding the depth of his incompetence. He’s a fool who has no idea how money works beyond how often Daddy was able to write him a check.
That chit was funny, I must admit. Reminds me of him calling the town of Paradise, “Pleasure”, guess he as thinking of Stormy. Btw, did anyone corrected him, or is still believing his name is Tim Apple, 😝.
Oh god I forgot about that. He is never not an utter embarrassment.
Can hardly wait until I can call them Donald Attica and Ivanka Alderson.
I looked up Alderson hoping it was a female prison. You did not disappoint:)
It’s the place Martha Stewart “visited” once upon a time (to do some time).
who is a bigger idiot? the guy who thinks his name is tim apple or the tim cook who while sitting next to trump, is eating his shit and yucking it up with russian operatives? the fact that there is ANYONE willing to sit on the american workforce policy advisory board while trump is in office without using their collective billions to get him out of office or aid the people being harmed by his policies disgusts me. the truth is – tim cook loves trump b/c he gets to keep all his pennies. never-the-mind he’s a racist, homophobic, mentally deranged lunatic.
I’ll add this to the long list of reasons I refuse to buy Apple products. Their competitors make far superior products anyway IMO.
Thank you, President Dumbass.
I think the Donald has probably done this name game his whole life. Nobody is as important, in his narcissistic mind, as he is and not worthy of his full attention. Well, at least now we know why EZ has his last name stenciled largely on everything he’s grifted. It’s so he doesn’t forget his own last name. I can’t wait until we can.
Loathe the glee in Ivanka’s face and just repulsed that they are so touchy feely in what’s supposed to be a professional setting.
IKR? Her title is ‘assistant to the President’. What boss grabs his assistant’s hand during a meeting?
She wears her hair up when she wants to be taken seriously as a business leader.
What a fvckwit. Clueless, disrespectful, entitled, corrupt, treasonous, lying, amoral… and utterly effing stupid.
People see it as a mnemonic device, I just saw it as egotistical. He names things after himself, so he thinks everybody else is the same.
He thinks every company is named after the family’s last name. It’s the only way he can remember his name and his company’s name.
Does this board now replace the previous board when so many members left after the US left the Paris climate deal?
And why the f* is Governor Kim Reynolds from Iowa on the board? She is a complete and total bumbling fool. Guess she’s being paid back for heading Trump’s election campaign in Iowa.
Drives me nuts how he assumes that he’s the smartest guy in any room, so when he learns something new he assumes it’s brand new information. “No one knew anything about human trafficking, but it turns out it’s not new, it’s been going on for a million years…”
NO DUH Trump. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, you wake up every morning in a house built by slaves.
yeah, he said something similar about the health care issues…”who knew Health Care was so complicated?”
ANYONE WHO HAS EVER READ EVEN ONE NEWS STORY ON IT. ALL OF YOUR ADVISORS. THE GUY WHO WAS IN THE WH BEFORE YOU. HILLARY!!! AND THE GUY WHO CLEANS YOUR TOILETS AT DRUMPF TOWER.
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