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Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After President Trump's Name Flub

SVTmaniac said:
Like everyone else, the president is human and makes mistakes. Like you've never once tried to think of two different things and said them at once. Perhaps he was going to say Tim at Apple or Apple Ceo Tim Cook and instead Tim apple came out. I know I've made mistakes like that many times. People love to hate Trump, but every one of you would love to have his life. You call him stupid, yet he's the president. How many of you really smart people could ever hold the highest position in the country? If a stupid person can do it, then why can't you?
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Why would I want to?
 
yaxomoxay said:
There is no pattern. They talk for hours in front of cameras, it just happens. In a span of three years he called two people using the company as their last name. Big deal.
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yaxomoxay said:
Please. Obama made plenty of mistakes of this kind, including thinking that he was in 2008 when it was indeed 2011, that the US had 57 states, that Austrian is a language, that St. Louis is in Kansas, and that a tornado killed ten thousand people (it was 12).
It just happens.
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Well said. You know who sits in the Oval Office each and every term since 1776 1789? A human being. And human beings make mistakes. Big deal. Frankly, I think the Tim Apple thing is hilarious. Hardly something worth questioning the president's intelligence over. Have we forgotten some of the mistakes George W. made? He has made for some great YouTube montages. :p

A lot of people posting around here would be baffled at how many mistakes they make in every day conversation if they had a camera pointed at them and could re-watch it later.
 
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v0lume4 said:
if they had a camera pointed at them and could re-watch it later.
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Oh lots of people do, they just post the ten seconds or the picture that makes their life perfect.
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PracticalMac said:
EXACTLY!
And #45Trump needs to take first prize in mistake category too!
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I don't know. Bush Jr was meme material before memes were a thing... and he actually worked for years in politics.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
As I pointed out elsewhere on PRSI it's not uncommon for presidents (or any human being) to make mistakes like this one. It just happens.
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Kind of like a former President who campaigned hard in all 57 states. You are right everybody (myself included) says dumb stuff from time to time, thankfully my slip ups aren't televised :)
 
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MattG said:
Living in a gold tower with a Slovenien mail-order bride and sycophant kids, knowing that the majority of civilized society hates me...hard pass
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I saw your previous post before you went back and edited it to make it even more insulting.

Are you serious? It was worth your time to go back and insult the man's wife and children? What is the matter with you?
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Please. Obama made plenty of mistakes of this kind, including thinking that he was in 2008 when it was indeed 2011, that the US had 57 states, that Austrian is a language, that St. Louis is in Kansas, and that a tornado killed ten thousand people (it was 12).
It just happens.
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Trump (Apr. 1, 2011): "I'm a very smart guy. I went to the best college. I had good marks. I was a very smart guy. Good student."

Trump (Mar. 6, 2016): "I'm speaking with myself, number 1, because I have a very good brain."

Trump (Apr. 26, 2016): "I went to the best schools. I'm, like, a very smart person."

Trump (Dec. 11, 2016): "You know... I'm, like, a smart person. I don't have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day."

Trump (Jan. 21, 2017): "Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me. I'm, like, a smart person."

Trump (Oct. 25, 2017): "I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person"

Peter Navarro on Trump (Nov. 9, 2018): "Every time I've been blessed to be in the Oval or the Roosevelt room with him, he's always the smartest guy in the room."
 
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sw1tcher said:
Trump (Apr. 1, 2011): "I'm a very smart guy. I went to the best college. I had good marks. I was a very smart guy. Good student."

Trump (Mar. 6, 2016): "I'm speaking with myself, number 1, because I have a very good brain."

Trump (Apr. 26, 2016): "I went to the best schools. I'm, like, a very smart person."

Trump (Dec. 11, 2016): "You know... I'm, like, a smart person. I don't have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day."

Trump (Jan. 21, 2017): "Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me. I'm, like, a smart person."

Trump (Oct. 25, 2017): "I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person"

Peter Navarro on Trump (Nov. 9, 2018): "Every time I've been blessed to be in the Oval or the Roosevelt room with him, he's always the smartest guy in the room."
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IQ and being smart do not preclude gaffes and mistakes, even very big mistakes.
 
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SVTmaniac said:
Like everyone else, the president is human and makes mistakes. Like you've never once tried to think of two different things and said them at once. Perhaps he was going to say Tim at Apple or Apple Ceo Tim Cook and instead Tim apple came out. I know I've made mistakes like that many times. People love to hate Trump, but every one of you would love to have his life. You call him stupid, yet he's the president. How many of you really smart people could ever hold the highest position in the country? If a stupid person can do it, then why can't you?
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Well because just being smart alone is not nearly enough to run for president... you also need a whole lot of money to buy influence and votes. And not all smart people are born to a wealthy real estate developer, and then handed the family business which already worth hundreds of Millions. But lets not worry about facts when making a point.
 
It reeks of obsequiousness, of trying to ingratiate oneself with President Donald Felon. Why would anyone with self-respect adopt a nickname from a dummy?
 
SkippyThorson said:
Tim managed to take something half the world would find negative, turn it into a joke, and it was entirely harmless. This is how the world should be. Well done, my good man!

In other news, how many times can one person come off so disingenuous by flubbing the last name of a person for the company they work for on the world stage? You know, little-known Apple.

I suppose if his brand is Trump, and his name is Donald Trump, mistaking Donald Trump for Donald Trump is totally reversible... So... He's only caught when the company doesn't match the last name! Which is pretty rare-- Oh.

The piece of scrap paper in front of him lists names and companies they work for...
Marilyn, Lockheed
Tim, Apple
Donald, Trump
etc...
The commas just blend in, you know, so, well, it looks like one name...
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It is negative. Lest you forget, a joke is virtually always at somebody else’s expense.
It might not be much but it’s still negative, (whilst being the funniest thing TC has done).
 
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