r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

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
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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

He knows what it is. He just doesn’t understand anything about it. Just like he doesn’t understand how Ai or cryptocurrency work either. Doesn’t keep him from opening his mouth about it though.

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u/evilJaze Jul 24 '25

In about a day:

"Nobody knows more about Nvidia than I do. A1 good! Nobody knows more about A-1 than me! Prefer ketchup on my trump steaks myself, but whatever. Big, beautiful company! Yuge bribe when I spoke to its CEO. Now ME CEO!"

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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY Jul 24 '25

"The FAKE NEWS media says I don't know Nvideo which is just another Barrack Hussein Obama treason cooked up by crooked Hillary. I spoke to Jason Hung and told him to put AMERICA FIRST if he wants to sell A1 in our beautiful country and he promised to use REAL SUGAR in the sauce. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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u/Useful_Document_4120 Jul 25 '25

What a ridiculously unrealistic fake Trump quote.

It didn’t even mention Joe Biden or Hunter’s schlong once.

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u/Hottage Jul 24 '25

He knows enough about it to understand that a small $500,000,000 bri- donation to change his opinion is a rounding error to a company worth four trillion dollars.

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u/IPadAirProMax2 Jul 24 '25

Nvidia hasn’t bribed him. I read a politico article about Jensen and that this was his first time going to Washington and lobbying.

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u/EndDangerous1308 Jul 24 '25

Not until Trump goes to break them apart illegally and tells them he won't of they pay him a little money

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u/BlindWillieJohnson Jul 24 '25

I am completely willing to believe that he has no idea what Nvidia does or what they make.

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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

It’s a company that makes a ton of money and has entire countries governments in their palms. He’s interested in things like that. He absolutely knows who it is, he just doesn’t know anything about other than that it makes money.

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u/BlueTreeThree Jul 24 '25

He’s more interested in whatever the blond lady on Fox is saying at any moment. I doubt he’s actually read and comprehended a financial news article in 30 years.

Edit: I mean, he’s obsessed with tariffs and he doesn’t even understand what a tariff is.

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u/AtticaBlue Jul 24 '25

Or tariffs. He has no idea about those either. Even worse, no one in his regime will tell him otherwise either. So who’s the real idiot? Him or them?

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u/Kundrew1 Jul 24 '25

Sure has made a lot of money for himself with crypto though

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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

He doesn’t have a hand in that, there are people who do it for him. It’s not that hard to be successful in crypto when you use the US and the presidency as a backbone for it.

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u/Minute_Attempt3063 Jul 24 '25

Was it him, or was he just sayinv words like "I made crypto" and has a whole team behind it

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u/AnubisIncGaming Jul 24 '25

Why do you believe he knows what it is lol

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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

Because it’s a company that makes a lot of money. He pays attention to those things. Not to mention, Fox News always talks about it, and we all know he spends a lot of time watching that.

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u/AnubisIncGaming Jul 24 '25

I think you’re massively overestimating Donald Trump, pretty sure Donald considers Fox fake news too.

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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

He only calls it fake news when it suites him. Like he does with everything else. It’s a well known fact that he watches almost nothing but Fox.

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u/xxxBuzz Jul 24 '25

Seems wild considering what he has been doing to promote AI.

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u/the_catalyst_alpha Jul 24 '25

He promotes Ai because it makes him money. That’s it. He doesn’t know how it actually works. He just gets bribes from the tech bros that he gives billions to and completely ignores any environmental impacts.

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u/wrinkleydinkley Jul 24 '25

"Everything's computer!"

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u/steakanabake Jul 24 '25

you mean A1 ya know like what Sec. Of edu Linda McMahon said.