Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains His Relationship With Trump

Apple's CEO Tim Cook has maintained a moving narration with U.S. President Donald Trump, and helium touched connected that successful a caller interview.


Cook sat down with Esquire's Ryan D'Agostino to sermon Apple's 50th anniversary, but helium was besides asked astir however helium navigates the Trump administration.

Cook responded by saying that "the Trump medication is precise accessible."

"So you tin speech with them astir your constituent of presumption connected things," said Cook. "They whitethorn not agree, but you tin engage. You tin beryllium heard. You whitethorn not, successful the end, beryllium capable to convince. But engagement for me, not conscionable successful the U.S. but astir the world, is truthful important due to the fact that it is precise complex, moving done section laws, section customs, section culture, section regulations. Every state is its ain story. Everybody's looks astatine things differently."

"The lone mode you get a consciousness for that is to beryllium earlier idiosyncratic and pass and engage," helium added. "If you went successful my league room, you would spot the Teddy Roosevelt punctuation 'It is not the professional who counts.' I've ne'er believed that conscionable yelling from the sideline astir positive oregon minus was a bully strategy. Your dependable conscionable goes into the wind."

Cook went connected to accidental that it is important to person "values that are consistent," and helium assured that Apple's values and his ain person not changed.

He emphasized Apple's absorption connected idiosyncratic privacy, the environment, accessibility, and education.

"So you'll spot maine everywhere, and you'll wonderment 'oh, he's gathering with idiosyncratic that has a antithetic presumption than him,'" Cook concluded. "I deliberation that's good. I deliberation it's good. I deliberation a occupation successful the satellite close present is that it's truthful polarized and antithetic views aren't shared oregon discussed. They conscionable go hardened. And I don't deliberation that's good."

In an interrogation past month, Cook said helium is "not a governmental person."

"I interact connected policy, not politics," helium said.
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