{"id":3960,"date":"2025-07-24T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/trump-didnt-know-nvidia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:24:37","slug":"trump-didnt-know-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/trump-didnt-know-nvidia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Didn&#8217;t Even Know What Nvidia Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2025\/07\/trump-didnt-know-nvidia.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt='Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was while giving a speech about his \"AI Action Plan\" and standing next to CEO Jensen Huang.' style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\"><\/div>\n<p>While announcing his new so-called &#8220;AI Action Plan,&#8221; which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks.<\/p>\n<p>While standing next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaker leads the S&amp;P 500 Top 10 Index with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before\"><em>Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/em> noticed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the president&#8217;s garbled communication style, it&#8217;s unclear at what point he was unaware of what is currently the world&#8217;s most valuable company. However, he did seem to suggest that he had previously wanted to break up the AI industry, for reasons that remained unexplained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, look, we&#8217;ll break this guy up \u2014 this is before I learned the facts of life \u2014 I said we&#8217;ll break &#8217;em up,&#8221; he said, while alluding to Huang. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Who the hell is he? What&#8217;s his name?&#8217; &#8216;His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, &#8216; I said, &#8216;What the hell is Nvidia?&#8217; I&#8217;ve never heard of it before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The baffling remarks underline just how uninformed the president often is on key issues, leaving it up to his aides to explain them to him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/donald-trump-world-liberty\">seemed baffled<\/a> by his own family&#8217;s cryptocurrency venture, proclaiming during a September livestream that &#8220;crypto is one of those things we have to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his speech this week, Trump wasn&#8217;t subtle about his attempt to cozy up to Huang, despite previously not knowing who he or Nivida were.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a job you\u2019ve done,&#8221; he said while repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Huang returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America\u2019s unique advantage that no other country can possibly have is President Trump,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-23\/trump-weighed-nvidia-breakup-before-realizing-it-d-be-hard?sref=YfHlo0rL\">enthused<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the president said he once mulled breaking up Nvidia\u2014 before he knew what it was,\u00a0if we&#8217;re decoding his remarks properly\u00a0\u2014 he revealed that his aides told him it would be &#8220;very hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I figured we could go in and we could sort of break them up a little bit, get them a little competition, and I found out it\u2019s not easy in that business,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder the president is trying to keep Huang in his good graces. The company&#8217;s stock price has rocketed over the last couple of years, catapulting it to the forefront of the AI race and the global business community.<\/p>\n<p>Huang also represents an alternative to xAI CEO Elon Musk, who&#8217;s had an enormous falling out with Trump over the past two months \u2014 but who&#8217;s currently trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/elon-musk-x-ai-funding-feecede1\">raise $12 billion<\/a> to lease an astronomical supply of Nvidia chips to bolster its AI efforts, in a timely demonstration of the strangely entangled world of AI.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/nvidia-stock-price-google-trump-ai-eadd0ba8\">forecasting that it&#8217;s spending $85 billion<\/a> in capital expenditures this year, a huge chunk of which is expected to go to Nvidia-powered data centers.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all probably hoping that Trump doesn&#8217;t change his mind again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on Nvidia:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nvidia-ceo-ai-plans\">Nvidia CEO Says He Has Plans to Either Change or Eliminate Every Single Person&#8217;s Job With AI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/trump-didnt-know-nvidia\">Trump Says He Didn&#8217;t Even Know What Nvidia Was<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While announcing his new so-called &#8220;AI Action Plan,&#8221; which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks. 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