{"id":10669,"date":"2019-03-07T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:37:18","slug":"donald-trump-doesnt-know-tim-cooks-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/donald-trump-doesnt-know-tim-cooks-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t know Tim Cook&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another blunder from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting that included Apple&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer &#8211; and arguably, one of the most recognisable people in technology &#8211; Tim Cook, Donald Trump mispronounced Cook&#8217;s name. And by mispronounced, we mean got it completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to job increases and the American workforce, Trump had noted Apple&#8217;s involvement in bringing more jobs to the USA. Apple have pledged to add 1,200 more jobs to San Diego alone in the light of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/03\/06\/apple-san-diego-qualcomm\/\">Qualcomm battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump highlighted how important this was to him, as lowering unemployment has been key for his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said, &#8220;People like Tim &#8211; you&#8217;re expanding all over and doing things that I really wanted you to do right from the beginning. I used to say, &#8216;Tim, you gotta start doing it here,&#8217; and you really have, you&#8217;ve really put a big investment in our country. We appreciate it very much, <strong>Tim Apple<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump just called Apple CEO Tim Cook \u201cTim Apple\u201d\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gTHHtjWvc9\">pic.twitter.com\/gTHHtjWvc9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u201d Sean O&#8217;Kane (@sokane1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sokane1\/status\/1103421841505505280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230; <em>what?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the President of the United States called Tim Cook, one of the most powerful men in business, Tim Apple.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that Trump has named an executive after the business they work for. He also referred to Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin as Marillyn Lockheed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Marillyn Lockheed&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9hUbrTeXlq\">pic.twitter.com\/9hUbrTeXlq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u201d Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dave_brown24\/status\/976882203459227649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Names are hard, Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another blunder from President Trump. In a meeting that included Apple&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer &#8211; and arguably, one of the most recognisable people in technology &#8211; Tim Cook, Donald Trump mispronounced Cook&#8217;s name. And by mispronounced, we mean got it completely wrong. In regards to job increases and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1595,2079,1553,2044],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}