--- title: Tim Cook Trolls Donald Trump for Calling Him Tim Apple description: Tim Cook made a playful joke on Twitter about President Donald Trump calling him "Tim Apple" at an event at the White House. canonical: https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-07T20:31:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:57.921Z og:title: Tim Cook Trolls Donald Trump for Calling Him 'Tim Apple' og:description: Here's what you need to know og:url: https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3bb139f97b3dc8/69894666b3fce3fe560c3474/tim-cook-trump-nickname.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Apple Debuts Latest Products og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tim Cook Trolls Donald Trump for Calling Him 'Tim Apple' twitter:description: Here's what you need to know twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3bb139f97b3dc8/69894666b3fce3fe560c3474/tim-cook-trump-nickname.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Noticed Tim Cook Is Having Not-So-Subtle Fun With Trump Calling Him Tim Apple > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 7, 2019 8:31 PM UTC  CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 12: Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks during an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. Apple is expected to announce new iPhones with larger screens as well as other product upgrades. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 12: Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks during an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. Apple is expected to announce new iPhones with larger screens as well as other product upgrades. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 7, 2019 8:31 PM UTC [Apple CEO Tim Cook](http://time.com/5275610/apple-tim-cook-duke-commencement/) showed off his sense of humor on Thursday [after President Donald Trump referred to him as “Tim Apple,”](https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1103516931930374144) as opposed to Tim Cook, the previous day. Cook, ever wry, seemingly referenced Trump’s mistake by including an Apple icon in lieu of his last name in his Twitter profile name. Trump’s “Tim Apple” reference was made at a meeting for the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board at the White House on Wednesday; Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who was also in attendance at the meeting took to her own Twitter to joke about the incident. This isn’t the first time that Cook’s sense of humor has manifested on social media; at an Apple keynote event last fall, he used his Twitter with [an “accidental” tweet that turned out to be a hilarious gag](http://time.com/5394127/tim-cook-twitter/) to kick off the event. See Cook’s new Twitter profile and Ivanka’s response to “Tim Apple” below. > [](https://twitter.com/scottbudman/status/1103720239517196288) > [](https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1103657091112357888) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/"},"headline":"People Noticed Tim Cook Is Having Not-So-Subtle Fun With Trump Calling Him Tim Apple","datePublished":"2019-03-07T20:31:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:57.921Z","description":"Here's what you need to know","url":"https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3bb139f97b3dc8/69894666b3fce3fe560c3474/tim-cook-trump-nickname.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3bb139f97b3dc8/69894666b3fce3fe560c3474/tim-cook-trump-nickname.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Apple Debuts Latest Products","caption":"Apple Debuts Latest Products","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/","name":"People Noticed Tim Cook Is Having Not-So-Subtle Fun With Trump Calling Him Tim Apple"}}]}] ```