Nvidia: What did Trump know about the Nvidia boss's affairs?

Dusseldorf. After the resignation of Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, the role of US President Donald Trump in the case is also coming into focus. The television channel CNN points out how close the relationship was between Trump and Huang. It stands to reason that the ex-CEO had a significant influence on the Trump administration's policies - and thus also on the position on the development of artificial intelligence and chip exports abroad.

A former White House correspondent for CNN explains: "This story is based on three cornerstones: the tech race between the US and China, how Washington makes decisions about these technologies, and a stock on which much of the world depends."

According to a chronology in the New York Times, the US authorities have already launched an investigation in 2025 against the company Megaspeed, to which the alleged Chinese spy and Huang affair Alice Huang is connected. Trump is also said to have been informed about this for the first time in 2025. There was another briefing this year - both times with reference to the suspicion that Alice Huang is presumably working for the Chinese state.

However, this information probably didn't stop Donald Trump from meeting again with Jensen Huang shortly afterwards - whereupon, in one case, he gave Nvidia permission to supply high-performance chips to China.

The CNN correspondent recognizes a pattern in this: It is supposedly possible to see exactly how a personal meeting with President Trump leads to a decision within a few hours or the next day "that directly affects Nvidia's bottom line, products or business processes - exactly as Jensen had hoped."

In August 2025, according to a US government representative, Nvidia and AMD also agreed to transfer 15 percent of revenue from certain chip sales to China to the US government. Nvidia also announced in a press release in October 2026 that it would invest another billion dollars in AI and cloud infrastructure in the USA. Now the question arises to what extent Donald Trump also had personal financial concerns in the Nvidia case.

Seth Moulton, a Democratic representative in the US House of Representatives, told CNN: "When Trump was informed, he chose to do nothing. He chose not to do anything in the name of our national security against our greatest existential adversary. He chose to do nothing because, I suspect, it could have an impact on his personal wealth or his stock trading. We don't know exactly why, but we have to find out."

Several MPs, both Democrats and Republicans, are now demanding clarification from the government. In addition to Trump, this also concerns his Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick, who is also said to have known about the intelligence reports on Jensen Huang. Lutnick may have to testify before the US Congress.