Apple's CEO Tim Cook Takes on Donald Trump
Apple Inc. (AAPL) - Get Report CEO Tim Cook has become the latest CEO to criticize President Donald Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, VA.
In a letter to employees Wednesday, Cook described the events in Charlottesville as "repulsive" and said he disagreed with Trump over the idea that the two sides were equally to blame for the deadly clash between far-right Nazi sympathizers and those protesting against them.
"Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans," Cook wrote according to the Wall Street Journal.
"What occurred in Charlottesville has no place in our country," he wrote. "We must not witness or permit such hate and bigotry in our country, and we must be unequivocal about it. This is not about the left or the right, conservative or liberal. It is about human decency and morality."
Apple with donate $1 million each to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The company will match employee contributions 2-for-1 to those organizations and human rights groups in the next month, Cook said, and will also enable a donation function on iTunes.
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