I read a business article referencing how in 2019, Trump bragged how opening an Apple factory was one of his great presidential achievements (it had opened 6 years prior).
Tim Cook doesn't seem dumb or oblivious— yet, he didn’t correct Trump.
My take— what he had to gain (eg., favor with Trump’s tariffs) was greater than the correction of moral wrongs (the lie) or setting the record straight.
And that attitude millions of times over is why Trump is the Republican frontrunner now.
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Granted, there are other reasons some Americans embrace Trump as fervently as he embraced the American flag at CPAC 2020. They seek a hero who will right all wrongs. One who boasts that he is ‘really rich’ and says other stuff they like. He also has lots of mean girl comments that make him seem tough.
91 felony charges? Sexual harassment / battery? Whatevs. He kisses the flag.
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@dalfen It sounds like you're overlooking that so many potential Trump voters don't ignore the charges because he kissed a flag.
Rather, they consider those to be badges of honor for him and even confirmation of the whole bus versus them attitude that he has been running on.
It's not despite the charges for those voters. It is in part because of the charges that he has gained so much support.
In the end there is no one model of trump voter. Trump was elected by many different types of voters, often with directly conflicting values and goals, free traders and isolationists just to name two of those groups.
But if you want to understand what's going on in US politics with regard to Trump, it's important to recognize how much those felony charges increased his likelihood of success.
@volkris Oh absolutely, I thought about that too, but there was so much to write. My focus of this thread was really how Tim Cook didn’t correct Trump’s lie that he opened the Apple plant.
Trump is 100% gaining from playing the martyr card. All of the charges and convictions are helping him.
@dalfen One of the most infuriating things about Trump supporters is how often I hear them celebrating what a great orator he is: "Oh ha ha, Biden can't complete a sentence, but our great Trump is such a word smith!"
It's one of those things that lead me to generally suspect that none of them at all actually listen to him at all. They all just watch his mouth move and then substitute whatever words they want to be hearing.
I've been surprised by the timing and number of endorsements Trump has been getting from people like Tim Cook, so who knows what's going on behind the scenes or what was going through Cooks's head as he was standing up there.
I wonder if he's either playing along with the what Trump says doesn't matter to these people take, or maybe he himself substituted his own words in his mind too.
@volkris Did Tim Cook (Apple) officially endorse him? I hadn’t heard of that, but I know Tim Scott did (I recently saw a video of that— eesh 😳 I was embarrassed for him lol).
Oh, I totally agree. I can’t imagine how people think he's a good orator. People hear what they want to hear.
