Trump: Apple CEO Tim Cook is a 'great executive because he calls me'

[crazytown]

“I gotta help him out short-term, because it’s a great American company”

CNBC, August 21, 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/trump-says-apple-ceo-tim-cook-is-a-great-executive-because-he-calls.html

Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook is a ‘great executive because he calls me and others don’t’

President Donald Trump likes Apple CEO Tim Cook. But it’s not necessarily because he’s running a big and successful business. Rather, Trump said Cook calls him “whenever there is a problem.”

“That’s why he’s a great executive,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday outside the White House. “Because he calls me and others don’t".

(snip) “Others go out and hire very expensive consultants,” Trump said. “Tim Cook calls Donald Trump directly.”

(snip) Apple’s iPhone was in line to get a 10% tariff starting Sept. 1, before Trump announced a temporary reprieve for laptops and cellphones, pushing the start date for the duties back to Dec. 15.

“The problem was that Samsung, a competitor, his competitor, wouldn’t be paying tariffs, and Tim Cook would,” Trump said. “I gotta help him out short-term, because it’s a great American company.”

[kacekwl]

1. Yea, he calls you

an idiot.