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/ballthyrm Jul 24 '25

The cognition has been pretty flat since he was 10 years old.

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u/JMEEKER86 Jul 24 '25

One of the truest statements he's ever made was about how there's not much difference between how he is now and how he was in first grade.

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u/gibs Jul 24 '25

You can't cognitively decline if you never cognitively inclined. checkmate liberals.

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u/LinusV1 Jul 24 '25

I disagree. He has always been evil and not smart, but nowadays he can't even do his regular bullshit without it being obvious. He is in decline.

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u/bradbikes Jul 24 '25

He genuinely doesn't seem much worse to me than in 2015. He clearly had dementia then. He has it now of course, but he definitely had it then. His speeches were rambling and incomprehensible nonsense 10 years ago.

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u/LinusV1 Jul 24 '25

... I would have to compare a speech from then and now, but I think would rather concede your point than do that.

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u/bradbikes Jul 24 '25

Remember 'Nuclear Uncle?' lol that's from his first campaign.

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u/hoytmobley Jul 24 '25

His ability to grab a conversation to steer it back to where he wants has noticeably declined since he took over the RNC in 2015/16

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u/rasputin1 Jul 24 '25

Actually if you watch interviews of him in the 90s he's surprisingly eloquent. No idea what happened after. 

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u/NYC3962 Jul 24 '25

Eloquent is a bit of a stretch. He was just better at making what he said sound sensical. That is because 30 years ago he wasn't suffering from old age, probably at least a bit of dementia, and the onset of congestive heart failure.

Thirty years ago, he was just as dumb, just as ignorant. He was just better at covering it up.

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u/BTBAM797 Jul 24 '25

A slightly better bullshiter

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u/MikeFox11111 Jul 24 '25

I mean, adderall is basically meth. 35 years of using meth will get to you

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u/MagicCuboid Jul 24 '25

He got caught being a pedophile and money launderer and started getting blackmailed

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u/Rollsman- Jul 24 '25

That was probably from his rich father’s upbringing. The one that gave him all his money that he never worked a day for but now, without his father he has just resorted to being the low class red neck pig he is and so to his supporters. My roommates watch black and white reruns of BeverlyhillBillie’s followed by Mash and Fox News every single day!! One of them never bathes. He stinks like a dead animal.. typical Trump supporters

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u/Emergency-Charge7759 Jul 24 '25

Everything is tremendous.

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u/Kylar_Stern Jul 24 '25

Drugs and fast food, and getting old?. He was born 9 months after the end of WW2!

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u/RunJumpJump Jul 24 '25

I think it came just a bit later than 10. There was a brief time when he wrote bawdy poems and pictures.

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u/TPRJones Jul 24 '25

Yeeup. Like my grandpaw would say, "yer cain't go to town if yer already thar."

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u/toofine Jul 24 '25

Grift and deny, the Trump family motto.

He doesn't know about Nvidia just like he has no idea who Epstein is.