‘Tim Cook has been giving Apple a bad look for some time. The typically charming CEO’s public image as an intelligent, well-spoken leader who keeps customers front of mind and never misses a chance to speak out for representation has taken a beating. Bowing to the wishes of the Chinese government by disallowing VPNs in the App Store that serves China.

Not a dreamer like his predecessor, Cook is a managerial genius who can squeeze money out of a supply chain like no one else. But to keep that profit from dipping in these bat-shit crazy times, he’s had to do a few things that I’m hoping keep him awake at night.

At a press event where Cook and his new bestie, President Trump, announced a $100 million investment in American manufacturing, he gave Trump a 24-karat gold iPad stand and the tablet to go with it. He’s on the list of donors to the construction of the Epstein Memorial Ballroom, complicit in the destruction of a historic property owned by the American people. And, driving his head even further up the Orangefarbenführer’s ample ass, he attended the premiere of the Melania Trump documentary.…’ (Séamus Bellamy via Boing Boingi)