Donald Trump recently broke a new record for dishonesty, speaking more falsehoods in one address during his February appearance at CPAC than he had in any other speech as president. Never complacent when it comes to fabrications, he seems to have set another record—his most obvious and pointless lie yet.

Last week, video of Trump at a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board went viral. In the clip, he called Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was seated immediately to his right, "Tim Apple." But now Axios reports that on Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told Republican donors that he’d actually said “Tim Cook Apple,” and that he had just spoken the businessman's last name quickly and quietly.

Trump's "Tim Apple" gaffe was very much not a big deal, the sort of error that you'd imagine would feel like water off a duck's back to a president who makes consequential missteps on the regular. The internet had a few laughs, Cook jokingly changed his Twitter handle to his new presidential moniker, and even first daughter Ivanka, who’d been sitting to her father’s left during the flub, seemed to find it funny.

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Still, it seems the mistake got under the president’s skin. The White House's official transcript added a dash and turned the statement into the slightly more coherent “Tim — Apple.”

Even if Trump had quietly snuck a “Cook” in there—and again, he most definitively did not, even according to his own White House—the sentence would have only made marginally more sense. Trump was thanking Cook for putting a “big investment” in the American economy, and if the president’s writing of history were true, he would have concluded his statement with,“We appreciate it very much, Tim Cook Apple.”

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"I just thought, why would you lie about that," a donor who was in attendance Friday told Axios. "It doesn't even matter!" The donor in question then presumably shredded that big fat "Trump 2020" check they’d made out. Right?

After Axios's story broke, the president took to Twitter to set the record straight once and for all. "At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple," Trump tweeted Monday morning, "I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!" That's our president, taciturn saver of time and words.

Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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