Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds To Trump Criticism: ‘Not Political’ | EUROtoday

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he’s “not political” amid ongoing criticisms of his relationship with President Donald Trump’s administration.

Appearing on “Good Morning America” Tuesday in honor of Apple’s fiftieth anniversary, Cook was requested about his current appearances on the White House and interactions with Trump, which have spurred calls to boycott his firm.

“What I do is I interact on policy, not politics,” he stated. “I’m not a political person on either side. I’m not political, and so I’m kind of straight down the middle.”

Cook additionally provided some faint reward for Trump, and instructed “GMA” co-host Michael Strahan: “I focus on policy, and so I’m very pleased that the president and the administration is accessible to talk about policy.”

Watch Tim Cook’s “Good Morning America” look beneath.

Last 12 months, Cook was amongst a number of tech leaders ― together with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ― who attended Trump’s inauguration ceremony. Since then, he’s appeared on the White House on a number of events, together with a January screening of “Melania,” Amazon Prime Video’s documentary about first woman Melania Trump.

Despite Cook’s earlier White House visits, his attendance on the “Melania” screening particularly angered many on-line, on condition that it passed off on the identical day because the deadly capturing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.

At one level throughout the occasion, he posed for a photograph with filmmaker Brett Ratner, who in 2017 confronted allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct from no less than six girls, together with actors Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn.

Days later, Cook instructed Apple workers that he was “heartbroken” by Pretti’s dying.

“This is a time for deescalation,” Cook wrote in an inside memo, per Bloomberg. “I believe America is strongest when we live up to our highest ideals, when we treat everyone with dignity and respect no matter who they are or where they’re from.”

He went on to notice he’d had a “good conversation” with Trump about his crackdown on immigrants, including, “I appreciate his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all.”

Elsewhere in his “GMA” interview, Cook shrugged off rumors he plans to retire after 15 years as Apple’s CEO. He additionally famous that his firm is ready to take a position $600 billion to maneuver extra of its manufacturing to the U.S.

“In fact, if you look at your iPhone today, the front cover and the back cover — all of that glass will be coming out of Kentucky by the end of this year,” he stated.