Donald Trump’s excuse for his ‘Tim Apple’ cock-up is hilarious – our favourite 17 responses
You’ll probably have seen the brilliant moment Donald Trump called Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ but here it is again anyway because, frankly, you can’t watch it too often.
Trump just called Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ to his face pic.twitter.com/3kcyrSRok8
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) March 6, 2019
Now the so-called president has gone on Twitter – where else? – to explain that, you know, it wasn’t a totally embarrassing cock-up at all, and he did it entirely deliberately.
At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple, I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019
Which probably tells you all you need to know about the man. It also prompted some very funny replies, of which these are our favourites.
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Today was the day Donald Whitehouse finally became president https://t.co/u0GHmRiPlf
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) March 11, 2019
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You realize you’re not limited to 280 characters when you speak to others with your mouth, right?
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) March 11, 2019
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Apple has more syllables than Cook. https://t.co/Lx5domlgUm
— Allan Shifman (@AllanShifman) March 11, 2019
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thx for the totally believable explanation, Donald/Prison
— A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) March 11, 2019
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Guy who rambles incoherent bullshit for 2 hours at #CPAC2019, is now splicing names to “save time.”
— JΛKΣ (@USMCLiberal) March 11, 2019
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so 'grab her by the pussy' was a way to save time & words from saying how you wanted to date her, slowly fall in love, ask for her hand in marriage, have a long romantic engagement, an old fashioned wedding under God's eyes, then consummate your love on your wedding night? https://t.co/Zpgs1gOAsv
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) March 11, 2019
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Sure. You’re usually great with names.
And you totally don’t sound ridiculous trying to explain it. pic.twitter.com/Krxf2Dsd8a
— BallsOut (@bjcreigh) March 11, 2019
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Save time and words? Apple literally has one more syllable than Cook. It takes longer to say…oh wait, I’ll let you look up syllable before I continue.
— Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) March 11, 2019
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Wow, you did that to save 2 seconds and 2 words?? I ‘m sticking with the theory that you are a fucking, scattered brained, semi literate, low IQ moron.
— keith hall (@kfhall0852) March 11, 2019