Donald Trump says Tim Cook is a better Apple CEO than Steve Jobs

The kind words from the Republican governmental candidate are emblematic of the close relationship Prepare fostered with Trump while he was in office. Cook often called Trump when he was head of state, rested on the management’s Labor force Policy Advisory Board, and hosted Trump at Apple’s Austin, Texas, campus.

In 2019, after Chef took care of to convince Trump to obtain Apple an exception from a collection of tolls influencing Chinese imports, Cook gifted the then-president with one of the very first Mac Pros constructed at its brand-new united state center. In an interview with Bloomberg News in June, Trump mentioned that he located Cook to be “a great entrepreneur.”

“I think that if Tim Cook really did not run Apple if Steve Jobs did, it wouldn’t be nearly as effective as it is now,” Trump claimed on an episode of the PBD Podcast recorded on Wednesday and released on Thursday. “I think so since I believe Tim Cook has actually done an impressive task, and I’m not knocking Steve Jobs, but it would not have coincided.”

“He said they’re utilizing that to run their enterprise, implying Europe is their business. “I said, ‘That’s a great deal … However Tim, I got to obtain elected initially, yet I’m not going to allow them take advantage of our firms– that will not, you recognize, be occurring.'”.

An E.U. court in September ruled that Apple needs to repay virtually $15 billion in unpaid taxes. In March, the bloc’s regulative arm fined Apple virtually $2 billion for abusing its dominant position its the distribution of music streaming apps like Spotify (PLACE +3.28%) or its very own Apple Songs.

During the podcast, Trump also said Cook had contacted us to discuss the billions of dollars the European Union has fined Apple, adding that he won’t let the bloc “take advantage” of American companies if he wins the November political election.