{"id":36141,"date":"2026-04-21T14:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/36141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:33:26","slug":"the-10-best-memes-weve-seen-about-tim-cook-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/36141\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Memes We&#8217;ve Seen About Tim Cook Stepping Down As Apple CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tim Cook is on his way out<\/a>, and the internet is doing what it does best: posting memes.<\/p>\n<p>Cook announced on Monday that he will transition out as the CEO of Apple, with <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-ceo-john-ternus-hardware-devices-ai-era-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Ternus<\/a>, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of hardware engineering, set to take the top job in September.<\/p>\n<p>Cook, who has led the company for 15 years, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tim-cook-farewell-letter-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a letter<\/a> that he felt a &#8220;gratitude I cannot put into words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The internet responded in kind with some good jokes. Below, we&#8217;ve included some of our favorites \u2014 several of which nod to Donald Trump mistakenly <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-praises-tim-cook-apple-references-viral-name-slip-up-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">calling Cook &#8220;Tim Apple.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If the smoke is black, the executives have not agreed on a new leader and must vote again.<\/p>\n<p>                                Poor Siri. At least the overhaul is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>                                      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image label-md\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/png\" data-srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69e74fbb3fecbb42897a20d0&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:1242,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:990}}\" alt=\"A screenshot of Siri not understanding news that Tim Cook has stepped down. Someone has captioned it &quot;The saddest part about Tim Cook stepping down is that they didn't even bother telling Siri.&quot;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                      Kolchak\/Threads  <\/p>\n<p>                                As it was foretold.<\/p>\n<p>                                      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image label-md\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/png\" data-srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69e769533fecbb42897a2141&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:1254,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:1142}}\" alt=\"John Appleseed\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                      jordanekay\/Threads  <\/p>\n<p>                                We will miss Tim Cook&#8217;s signature greeting at Apple keynotes.<\/p>\n<p>                                The transition is complete.<\/p>\n<p>                                Still grinding at 65. Should&#8217;ve diversified.<\/p>\n<p>                                Arguably one of Apple&#8217;s greatest innovations of the Tim Cook era.<\/p>\n<p>                                The AI talent war is hot.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">excited to welcome Tim Cook to the Codex team<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Ambrosino (@ajambrosino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajambrosino\/status\/2046391297133732278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                The most important CEO handover note.<\/p>\n<p>                  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Cook is on his way out, and the internet is doing what it does best: posting memes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[630,1020,12,23841,23836,23164,2573,2344,5705,23840,23837,23838,628,23839,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-36141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tim-cook","8":"tag-apple-ceo","9":"tag-company","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-good-joke","12":"tag-good-meme","13":"tag-hardware-engineering","14":"tag-internet","15":"tag-john-ternus","16":"tag-kind","17":"tag-nod","18":"tag-senior-vice-president","19":"tag-september","20":"tag-tim-cook","21":"tag-top-job","22":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116443192429301742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}