President Good Brain was firing on all cylinders at a "workforce policy meeting" with CEOs at the White House today. After solving various workforce policy issues, it was time for everyone to say their piece for the cameras. After Apple CEO Tim Cook did his thing, the President of the United States graciously reclaimed the floor. It appears that you can run the world's second-most valuable multinational corporation and sit for a long meeting with someone and they still won't remember your name.

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Trump just called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple” pic.twitter.com/gTHHtjWvc9 — Sean O'Kane (is on paternity leave) (@sokane1) March 6, 2019

Let's just get that transcript for posterity.

We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.

What was that?

Tim Apple.

This is not the first time Trump has assigned a CEO with a new last name to match the company they do CEO things for.

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What, you named your company something that's not your own last name? When they tell Trump his name is actually Tim Cook, will he assume he owns a restaurant?

Would you do this story if Obama said "Tim Apple"? you might ask. No, probably not. But Obama didn't do this last weekend—or any weekend.

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SNL made a montage of Trump's CPAC speech and it's nuts pic.twitter.com/t5MSYPU0P3 — Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) March 3, 2019

Now that's a big, beautiful brain. Fasten your seatbelts, lords and ladies, it's only going to get more normal from here on out.



Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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