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President Trump sought to set the record straight on his latest gaffe, where he referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as \u201cTim Apple.\u201d According to the president, he was just trying to \u201csave time and words.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 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,\u201d<\/em> Trump tweeted on Monday. \u201cThe Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 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!<\/p>\n \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Trump called the Apple CEO \u201cTim Apple\u201d<\/em> at a press conference last Wednesday. During the conference, Cook sat behind a paper name tag that clearly read \u2018Tim Cook.\u2019<\/p>\n The press and Twitter mocked Trump for his apparent slip-up, and Cook joined in, changing his Twitter username<\/a> to his first name followed by an apple emoji.<\/p>\n The \u2018gaffe\u2019 wasn\u2019t the first time Trump has called a CEO by their company name. The president introduced <\/a>defense company Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson as \u201cMarillyn Lockheed\u201d at a conference last year.<\/p>\n\n\n