US president mixes praise with trademark bluntness in recounting the Apple CEO’s calls for help
US President Donald Trump has claimed with his usual bluntness that Apple CEO Tim Cook once called him to “kiss his a*s.”
The tech giant announced on Monday that Cook will resign as CEO and become executive chairman in September. He will be replaced by hardware chief John Ternus.
In a tribute to the man he famously called “Tim Apple,” Trump said they first spoke early in his first term, when Cook called him to present “a fairly large problem” that “only I, as President, could fix.”
“When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling,”…
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