“Literally lost our democracy”?
You should review the following. Trump failed to receive 50% of the popular vote in 2024.
Umm, no.
Don’t insult fascism associating it to this orange clown.
Hmm didn't see Bezos there or Zuck or Gates there... Just because you are invited doesn't mean you need to go. Another stain on his legacy.
This is essentially the same as bringing a bottle of wine to someone’s house when you visit. Trump likes tacky gold things and says he wants things made in America, Tim brought him a tacky gold thing that he made in America.
in a lot of ways, Tim's approach makes sense. Apple has staked out positions. While they've done damage over the years getting here, they are pushing using recycled aluminum, more recycled components, improving packaging waste, improving working conditions, profitability, and a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. They view their role as pro-humanity, and that means making good products but also taking occasional policy positions. Sometimes those appear to be more liberal-aligned. But that's policy-driven, not politics driven.
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An offense is an offense. Doesn’t matter how big or small. Stealing a candy bar, walking across the train tracks in a non crossing zone, etc. If it violates the law, it is an OFFENSE.
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Donald Trump is a war criminal, and has comitted numerous war crimes since his first term. But Tim Cook has been meeting and cozying up to war criminals even before Trump became president. For example, in 2014, Cook met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Apple's world headquarters in Cupertino. Netanyahu had been numerous committing war crimes for nearly two decades before that meeting. And it was Netanyahu who convinced the U.S. to start the illegal Iraq War in 2003 by totally lying to U.S. politicians that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Netanyahu told the exact same lie about Iran, and so the U.S. started an illegal war in Iran last year and started another illegal war in Iran this year that is currently ongoing. Cook doesn't care about any of that because all Cook cares about is money. See the thread in the link below:
Video of Tim Cook's Lunch Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Gives Inside Look at Apple HQ
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Apple CEO Tim Cook for lunch yesterday at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California. Netanyahu is traveling through the United States for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and also met the founders of popular messaging app WhatsApp as well...
Timmy grovels and sucks. Everyone says, "Well yeah, the shareholders". Dystopian late capitalism in its most atriculated expression. Capitalism sucks, it's in its death throes The billionaires are buying up everything, including you. Wake up.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has maintained a working relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, and he touched on that in a recent interview.
Cook sat down with Esquire's Ryan D'Agostino to discuss Apple's 50th anniversary, but he was also asked about how he navigates the Trump administration.
Cook responded by saying that "the Trump administration is very accessible."
"So you can talk with them about your point of view on things," said Cook. "They may not agree, but you can engage. You can be heard. You may not, in the end, be able to convince. But engagement for me, not just in the U.S. but around the world, is so important because it is very complex, working through local laws, local customs, local culture, local regulations. Every country is its own story. Everybody's looks at things differently."
"The only way you get a feel for that is to sit before someone and communicate and engage," he added. "If you went in my conference room, you would see the Teddy Roosevelt quote 'It is not the critic who counts.' I've never believed that just yelling from the sideline about plus or minus was a good strategy. Your voice just goes into the wind."
Cook went on to say that it is important to have "values that are consistent," and he assured that Apple's values and his own have not changed.
He emphasized Apple's focus on user privacy, the environment, accessibility, and education.
"So you'll see me everywhere, and you'll wonder 'oh, he's meeting with somebody that has a different view than him,'" Cook concluded. "I think that's good. I think it's good. I think a problem in the world right now is that it's so polarized and different views aren't shared or discussed. They just become hardened. And I don't think that's good."
In an interview last month, Cook said he is "not a political person."
"I interact on policy, not politics," he said.
Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains His Relationship With Trump
That’s all well and good, until “engaging” with an administration and agreeing to their biases towards other parts of the world ends up biting your corporation in the ass.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has maintained a working relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, and he touched on that in a recent interview.
Cook sat down with Esquire's Ryan D'Agostino to discuss Apple's 50th anniversary, but he was also asked about how he navigates the Trump administration.
Cook responded by saying that "the Trump administration is very accessible."
"So you can talk with them about your point of view on things," said Cook. "They may not agree, but you can engage. You can be heard. You may not, in the end, be able to convince. But engagement for me, not just in the U.S. but around the world, is so important because it is very complex, working through local laws, local customs, local culture, local regulations. Every country is its own story. Everybody's looks at things differently."
"The only way you get a feel for that is to sit before someone and communicate and engage," he added. "If you went in my conference room, you would see the Teddy Roosevelt quote 'It is not the critic who counts.' I've never believed that just yelling from the sideline about plus or minus was a good strategy. Your voice just goes into the wind."
Cook went on to say that it is important to have "values that are consistent," and he assured that Apple's values and his own have not changed.
He emphasized Apple's focus on user privacy, the environment, accessibility, and education.
"So you'll see me everywhere, and you'll wonder 'oh, he's meeting with somebody that has a different view than him,'" Cook concluded. "I think that's good. I think it's good. I think a problem in the world right now is that it's so polarized and different views aren't shared or discussed. They just become hardened. And I don't think that's good."
In an interview last month, Cook said he is "not a political person."
"I interact on policy, not politics," he said.
Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains His Relationship With Trump
