The internet jeered Apple CEO Tim Cook after it was announced on Monday that he is stepping down. Apple said in a statement that Cook will transition to the executiveThe internet jeered Apple CEO Tim Cook after it was announced on Monday that he is stepping down. Apple said in a statement that Cook will transition to the executive
Jeers as MAGA-friendly Apple CEO steps down: 'Made iPhone boring and bribed a dictator'
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The internet jeered Apple CEO Tim Cook after it was announced on Monday that he is stepping down.
Apple said in a statement that Cook will transition to the executive chairman role on Sept. 1, and that hardware expert John Ternus will assume the chief executive role. The move ends Cook's 15 years of leading the company, during which time he oversaw the development of the Apple Watch and AirPods.
"It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company," Cook said in the statement.
Political analysts and observers jeered Cook, who donated $1 million to President Donald Trump's inauguration campaign and gave the president an award during an awkward Oval Office visit last year, after the announcement.
"Good. He ens---tified Apple and bowed down to a dictator," Linda Stevens, a consultant and founder of Spatial Spirits, posted on Bluesky.
"He's decided to spend more time handing out gold statues to Donald Trump," author John Hatch posted on Bluesky.
"How will they fill the shoes of someone who made iPhone boring and bribed our dictator president?" former journalist Mark Wright posted on Bluesky.
"I wonder which cabinet position he was offered?" Cliff Gilmore, a retired military officer, posted on Bluesky.
The government of the United Kingdom has barred a far-right gadfly Republican candidate from entering the country, mere days after she announced her planned trip in May — but she remains undeterred.
Last week, Valentina Gomez announced on X that she had obtained an electronic travel authorization to visit the country, and made clear that her angle was to protest against the existence of Muslims in Britain.
"VISA APPROVED. See you on May 16th in England," wrote Gomez, tagging Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, and the account for the Home Office and adding, "you’re only good at protecting the muslim rape gangs. Try to arrest me & see what happens. England belongs to the English. Not the mohameds."
But as of Monday, her remarks appear to have backfired.
"The Home Office has barred Valentina Gomez from the UK on the grounds that her presence would not be conducive to the public good ... Her Electronic Travel Authorisation has been revoked," reported Ben Bloch of Sky News.
Gomez responded to this by posting a video of herself on X, vowing that she would still be going.
"I just got banned from England by a dirty Pakistani Muslim, because I'm not coming to rape or kill little girls," said Gomez. "Plan A is for airplane, and since that's no longer an option, we're going to Plan B, and Plan B is for boats." She said that she would do the same thing Muslim refugees do, "hop on a boat and get free luxury accomodation, and deliver my beautiful speech, and if they dare to arrest me, I guarantee you that the White House will get involved."
Gomez previously ran unsuccessfully for the Secretary of State of Missouri and for a congressional seat in Texas.
She ran under the slogan "Don't be Weak and Gay," and to get attention online, posted videos of herself torching LGBTQ-affirming books and a copy of the Qur'an. She has also proclaimed Black Americans are "ungrateful" people who should "get the hell out" of the country if they don't like how they're treated.
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Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be the next Trump administration official to depart, the White House announced on Monday.
Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, announced DeRemer's departure in a post on X.
"Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector," Cheung wrote. "She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives. Keith Sonderling will take on the role of Acting Secretary of Labor."
DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to depart the Trump administration this year. Attorney General Pam Bondi was let go after she failed to prosecute the president's enemies, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem resigned after a series of leadership missteps.
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