Affiliate Disclosure If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Read our ethics policy . Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities Mike Wuerthele | Jun 14, 2024 Tim Cook and Donald Trump in a meeting at the White House in 2018 2 Facebook x.
com Reddit The meeting with Trump was reportedly attended by 80 CEOs. However, what has been more news-making is how ex-president and now presidential candidate Trump attempted to make his case to US big business. The meeting reportedly repeated Trump's promises of how his intention is to cut taxes for businesses, and pare back business regulations if he is re-elected.
No details of how the proposals would be fulfilled were provided. However, according to multiple reports from CNBC , one on Thursday , and one on Friday , the CEOs did not necessarily walk away with a good impression. Ross Sorkin, one anchor of Squawk Box , reported on what he had heard from some CEOs in attendance.
On Friday morning's show, Sorkin said that he was told that "[Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map." "These were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to [Trump, but] actually walked out of the room less predisposed," Sorkin added in his report. At the meeting Trump said he was planning on ending taxation of tips, which was reportedly met with some scorn by the gathered CEOs.
The report on Thursday cites two people who claim that Tim Cook wa.