Tim Apple's really leanin' into this one
By Amy B Wang Amy B Wang General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 7 at 2:49 PM The moment was so fleeting, it could have been missed in a millisecond.
“You’ve really put a big investment in our country,” Trump told Cook, who was sitting to the president’s right.Cook didn’t appear to register the mistake at all. To Trump’s left, his daughter, White House adviser Ivanka Trump, blinked and glanced ever-so-briefly downward. But the president kept speaking without missing a beat.
The Verge pointed out it wasn’t even Trump’s first time messing up an executive’s name in such fashion; last year, he once called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson “Marillyn Lockheed.”
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