President Donald Trump lobbed a bizarre jab at the late Steve Jobs on Tuesday in saying that the technology company Apple wouldn’t have performed “near as well” under his leadership if he hadn’t died in 2011, while also congratulating himself for having consulted Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook.
“I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
Trump then recalled several phone calls he had received from Cook over the years in which he would offer business advice – advice that he suggested “most people would have paid millions of dollars to a consultant" for.
“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 a--,’” Trump wrote.
“He makes these calls to me, I help him out (but not always, because he will, on occasion, be too aggressive in his ask!), and he gets the job done, QUICKLY, without a dime being given to those very expensive (millions of dollars!) consultants around town who sometimes get it done, and sometimes don’t.”