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Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a private White House screening of MELANIA on Saturday night. By Sunday morning, calls to boycott Apple products were spreading ... Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a private White House screening of a documentary about Melania Trump, and the timing of the event has seen him facing a vitriolic backlash from critics and customers.
While at a White House screening of the first lady’s documentary, the Apple CEO posed with the director, who’s been accused of sexual misconduct.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who had made multiple trips to meet Trump at the White House, wrote a Slack message to employees. “What’s happening with ICE is going too far,” Altman said. “There is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what’s happening now, and we need to get the distinction right.”
Sources say nobody outside of Melania Trump, director Brett Ratner and a very small group of their associates has yet seen the movie, including the president and his advisors, who are seeing it Saturday night for the first time.
Apple CEO Tim Cook called for "deescalation" in Minneapolis, where two people have been killed by federal agents this month.
Apple CEO Tim Cook posed for a photograph with an accused sex pest during a private screening of the Melania Trump documentary at the White House. Cook, 65, joined invited VIP guests who watched the vanity documentary Melania just hours after federal agents fatally shot ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.