You understand Tim Cook's job, right? He's the CEO. His job is to increase the bottom line. Keep the stocks strong. Appease the shareholders. That's it. If he does not do that, and Apple sees financial losses, he will be fired and replaced with someone else who will.

Michael Spindler was fired when the clones failed and did nothing to increase Apple's profits. Amelio was forced to resign when an unknown share holder (later revealed to be Steve Jobs) dumped over 1.5 million shares at once, causing a major shareholder panic who immediately interpreted that as a no-confidence vote for Amelio.

Cook has to play ball with the administration. Do you really think an openly gay man from Alabama likes Trump and what he's doing? Doubtful. But Cook is the CEO and he either plays around, or he gets fired and then he can be as openly critical as he likes.