The moment was so fleeting, it could have been missed in a millisecond. Trump didn't miss a beat as he continued.
At a White House event on Wednesday, President Donald Trump thanked Apple CEO Tim Cook for his efforts to bolster the American workforce.
"You've really put a big investment in our country," Trump told Cook, who was sitting to the president's right.Tim"Apple" and the Trumps during their White House meeting on Wednesday.Cook didn't appear to register the mistake at all. To Trump's left, his daughter, White House adviser Ivanka Trump, blinked and glanced ever-so-briefly downward.The gaffe spread quickly on social media. If he was Tim Apple, then what about Jeff Amazon and Mark Facebook? And so on.
it wasn't even Trump's first time messing up an executive's name in such fashion; last year, he once called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson "Marillyn Lockheed."Even Ivanka Trump had a go on Twitter: Not one to miss out on the fun, Cook himself quietly changed his Twitter name to "Tim" on Thursday and an image of the Apple logo, a coy nod to Trump's mistake.
Even more delicious was that Cook's inside joke was apparently only visible to people using Apple products.
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