{"id":13223,"date":"2026-04-21T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:23:41","slug":"130416758-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13223","title":{"rendered":"Trump Praises Tim Cook: Tim Cook called to &#8216;kiss my a**&#8217;: Trump&#8217;s post on Apple CEO stepping down takes odd turn &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130416833,imgsize-892940,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-37.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Cook called to 'kiss my a**': Trump's post on Apple CEO stepping down takes odd turn\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday praised Tim Cook as an \u201cincredible guy\u201d and called himself a \u201cbig fan\u201d of him after Apple announced that Cook will become the executive chairman of its board of directors and step down as CEO.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Writing on Truth Social, Trump reflected on his relationship with Cook, saying it began during his first presidential term when the Apple CEO reached out for help over a major issue. However, Trump also made a weird remark, saying he was impressed to have the head of Apple calling to \u201ckiss my ass.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>\u201cFor me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term. He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix. <!-- -->Most people would have paid millions of dollars to a consultant, who I probably would not have known, but who would say that he knew me well. The fees would be paid but the job would not have gotten done. When I got the call I said, wow, it\u2019s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that? I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to \u2018kiss my ass.<!-- -->\u2019 Anyway, he explained his problem, a tough one it was, I felt he was right and got it taken care of, quickly and effectively.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\".\" msid=\"130416802\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-130416802\/.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Trump said Cook had reached out to him multiple times during his presidency. \u201cDuring my five years as President, Tim would call me, but never too much, and I would help him where I could. Years latter, after 3 or 4 BIG HELPS, I started to say to people, anyone who would listen, that this guy is an amazing manager and leader. He makes these calls to me, I help him out (but not always, because he will, on occasion, be too aggressive in his ask!), and he gets the job done, QUICKLY.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>He also compared Cook\u2019s leadership with that of Steve Jobs, suggesting that while Apple would have succeeded under Jobs, it may not have achieved the same level of growth seen under Cook.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Praising Cook\u2019s tenure, Trump added, \u201cTim Cook had an AMAZING career, almost incomparable, and will go on and continue to do great work for Apple, and whatever else he chooses to work on.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Apple said Cook will remain in a leadership role as executive chairman, while John Ternus, the company\u2019s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO starting September 1, 2026.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>In a statement, Cook said he loves the company \u201cwith all of my being\u201d and described leading it as the \u201cgreatest privilege of my life,\u201d adding that he feels \u201ca gratitude that I cannot put into words.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/tim-cook-called-to-kiss-my-a-trumps-post-on-apple-ceo-stepping-down-takes-odd-turn\/articleshow\/130416758.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Tim Cook as an \u201cincredible guy\u201d and called himself a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31642,31643,31441,967,31641,15569,31644,31646,31645,31640],"class_list":["post-13223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple-ceo-news","tag-apple-company-updates","tag-apple-leadership-transition","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-chairman-tim-cook","tag-tim-cook","tag-tim-cook-apple-career","tag-tim-cook-apple-ceo","tag-trump-post","tag-trump-praises-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}