Trump’s lie about “Tim Apple”

The president who coined the name Tim Apple has thoughts on getting tongue tied. https://t.co/FZc22jKmik

— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 18, 2019

President Trump went after Vice President Joe Biden for getting tongue tied.

The President also has his own history of getting tongue tied. pic.twitter.com/ij8vakJd7F

— Hardball (@hardball) March 18, 2019

George raises a point I’ve heard from other longtime observers of Trump and some in Trump world. The president sometimes doesn’t tell the truth even when the matter is inconsequential or harmless, or it is easily provable that he’s not telling the truth. https://t.co/Lm3kTJmH6J

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 14, 2019

This is how the official White House transcript had it:

" I mean, you’ve really put a big investment in our country. We appreciate it very much, Tim — Apple."https://t.co/4Rn0MP85Vc https://t.co/8h1V6fNGpL

— Karen Travers (@karentravers) March 11, 2019

Not letting it go https://t.co/S4ZIM3ITcj

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 11, 2019

POTUS can’t admit a mistake of any kind no matter how trivial. Instead of admitting, ignoring, or laughing about his slip of the tongue like a mature adult, he lies about it. It’s instinctive. https://t.co/3ILpWnw11I

— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) March 11, 2019

“Donors couldn’t understand why [Trump] would make such a claim…”

Those if us who suspect a pathological liar isn’t the right person to be president, let alone to be re-elected as president, can’t understand why Trump donors would be…Trump donors. https://t.co/b5dK9efcqt

— Bill "Slightly Dangerous" Kristol (@BillKristol) March 11, 2019

Best way to consume Trump tweets? Through the reactions. Here are 9 reactions to Trump saying that he called @Tim_Cook Tim Apple "as an easy way to save time & words." pic.twitter.com/WpI10zZ5T3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 11, 2019

Axios reports that Trump lied to donors at Mar-a-Lago that he didn’t call Tim Cook “Tim Apple”…that he actually said “Tim Cook, Apple” but said the Cook softly and the “fake news” misreported it. Donors were perplexed. https://t.co/UwdAcPXWSY

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 11, 2019

Everyone has done this.

In 2008 primaries, a weary 46-year-old Obama once said he had been to “all 57 states”

*All* of us have done things like this. Q is frequency. For Obama, “all 57” stood out as exception. Much more frequent w Trump. (And Obama didn't deny he’d said it.) https://t.co/A7bY1kiiO8

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) March 11, 2019