Stephen Colbert really thought he was done making jokes about President Donald Trump mistakenly calling Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple.”
“Now, OK, so it was funny that he did this, haha,” the Late Show host said, noting that Cook actually changed his Twitter handle to Tim and then the Apple logo to subtly acknowledge the gaffe. “All in good fun,” he said. “And it was over! But now it has re-blossomed into an ongoing national scandal that we’re calling ‘Applegate (Not Christina).’
That’s because, reportedly, President Trump openly lied to Republican donors about the incident at an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort over the weekend. According to Axios, “Trump told the donors that he actually said ‘Tim Cook Apple’ really fast, and the ‘Cook’ part of the sentence was soft. But all you heard from the ‘fake news,’ he said, was ‘Tim Apple.’”
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“Mr. President, words don’t just disappear from the middle of sentences,” Colbert responded. “Unless it’s CBS bleeping me when excuses like this are fucking insane.”
Of course, Trump has also tweeted a completely different excuse for what happened, claiming that he “quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words.”
