Axl Rose, rock legend and frontman of Guns N' Roses, compared Apple CEO Tim Cook to US president Donald Trump ? with no further context. Posting on Twitter, the singer wrote: "Tim Cook is the Donald Trump of the music industry." It isn't clear why Rose made the comparison, though it is obviously not intended to be flattering. This is what he wrote about Trump's administration in January: "The [White House] is the current US gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful.