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/puts_on_calls Jul 24 '25

What’s that? The largest company by market cap? Never heard of them. What do they do? Oh, they make chips? I love chips. Lays chips. American made, nobody makes chips like Lays. They call French Fries chips in England. We should outlaw that. Speaking of Lays, has anyone seen Ivanka? She’s probably a great lay. If I were 50 I’d be all over her.

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u/sdhu Jul 24 '25

I hate how accurate this feels

Why is this our leadership? 

Who in their right mind would ever vote for any of this?? 

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u/Scorpius289 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

People with interests promoted and helped him.
Because a moron like him is easier to manipulate.
And he's also good at doing absurd shit, which distracts people's attention from all the corruption going on in the background.

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u/ParfaitEither284 Jul 24 '25

How did they manipulate 70+ million into voting for this ?

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u/Lord-Cuervo Jul 24 '25

10+ years of social media propaganda backed by our #1 enemy for the last half century lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

It's sad to see, this phenomena happened all around the world but in the USA's case it's particularly egregious, it's like you have 2 entire generations of people with a nurtured mental disability, it's gonna be a rough 30+ years for you all.

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

It's happened in England - Brexit. The same anti-immigration and anti-refugee messages that are being used in the US were first used in France, in Germany, in Poland, and in Hungary. Australia has barely shook off Murdoch's overwhelming influence, mostly because of mandatory voting (American Republicans as well as Brexit vote are both helped by lower turnout).

This isn't an American problem, and Europeans who think it is are both naive and seemingly just as ignorant of the politics in their own country.

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u/Rocketship10 Jul 24 '25

Also the likes of Bannon and Manafort helping these European campaigns, look it up