{"id":5540,"date":"2025-05-27T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:39:11","slug":"apple-ceo-cook-pisses-off-donald-trump-by-refusing-to-travel-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5540","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Cook \u201cPisses off\u201d Donald Trump by refusing to travel to the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has encouraged a number of chief executives and representatives of US companies to accompany President Donald Trump on his visit to the Middle East, the New York Times reported Sunday, however, Apple CEO Tim Cook declined the offer, according to two people familiar with the matter. \u201cThis decision seems to have upset Donald Trump,\u201d the New York Times said, referring to Cook in public several times during visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump reportedly paused to praise Nvidia CEO Jen-hsun Huang, who was traveling with him, \u201cI mean, Tim Cook isn&#8217;t here, but you are,\u201d he said at the event, which was attended by senior representatives from companies including OpenAI, Citigroup and Advanced Micro Devices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5541 aligncenter\" title=\"4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1.png\" alt=\"4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4c75ae1044ac43f7e1760283cada3919u1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nTim Cook, file photo, source: foreign media<\/p>\n<p>After arriving in Qatar, Donald Trump mentioned Cook again, saying he had \u201cA little problem with Tim Cook.\u201d. While praising Apple&#8217;s investment in the US, he also revealed that he had told Cook, \u201cBut now that I hear you&#8217;re building factories all over India, I don&#8217;t want you to build factories in India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, Tim Cook, Apple has not responded to this. The White House declined to comment on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump also posted on his social media account on May 23, local time, threatening a 25 percent tariff on iphones made anywhere but the United States, the report said. Donald Trump&#8217;s comments caught Apple executives and many in the administration off guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The White House has encouraged a number of chief executives and representatives of US companies to accompany President Donald Trump on his visit to the Middle East, the New&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,257],"tags":[2455,2456,2457,350],"views":340,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}