Donald Trump Claims Apple CEO Tim Cook Once Called the President to ‘Kiss My Ass’

President Donald Trump praised Tim Cook, who’s stepping down as Apple’s CEO later this year, as “an incredible guy!!!” who had “an AMAZING career.”

Trump also said the tech exec once called him during his first term in office to ask for help on an unspecified matter — and Trump said his reaction was that “I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’”

Trump, in a post Tuesday morning on his Truth Social account, said Cook called with “a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix.” Trump continued, “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’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that? I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’” (“Tim Apple” is what Trump mistakenly called the exec at a 2019 White House summit attended by Cook and other members of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.)