LOLOLOL

Now it's a different story.



Yeah, who doesn't say a CEO's first name plus their company as a way to save time and words?  It's a common practice.

Before people widely published the audio, this was his excuse:



The Putz couldn't have just admitted he misspoke?

Of course, he didn't tweet that first excuse, so maybe he figures his base won't have seen it.  Or maybe it's just because the video clearly shows him saying "Tim Apple" without a beat in between the two names to say Cook, softly or otherwise, and since he simply cannot tell the truth, he devised a different lie.

Two donors who were there told me they couldn't understand why the president would make such a claim given the whole thing is captured on video. Nobody cared, they said, and Tim Cook took it in good humor by changing his Twitter profile to Tim Apple.

"I just thought, why would you lie about that," one of the donors told me. "It doesn't even matter!"

  Axios

I have a question for the donor: why are you still giving this asshat money?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.