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Trump Wanted to Break Up NVIDIA (Until Someone Told Him What It Was)
Joshua Clear
August 09, 2025
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Trump Wanted to Break Up NVIDIA (Until Someone Told Him What It Was)
Picture this: You're the President of the United States.
You want to break up a monopoly.
There's just one problem.
You have no idea what that company actually does.
The moment that broke the internet
At an AI summit in Washington, Trump dropped this bombshell:
"I said, 'Look, we'll break this guy up,' before I learned the facts here."
He was talking about NVIDIA. The $4 trillion company that basically owns artificial intelligence.
But here's the kicker - Trump had never heard of them.
"What the hell is NVIDIA? I've never heard of it before."
The most powerful man in the world just admitted he wanted to destroy a company he'd never heard of.
What happened next will blow your mind
Trump's advisors had to sit him down for an emergency briefing.
They explained that Jensen Huang (NVIDIA's CEO) doesn't just dominate AI chips.
He IS the AI chip market.
"Sir, he has 100 percent of the market," they told him.
Trump's response? "I found out it's not easy in that business."
Translation: "Holy crap, this guy actually owns everything."
The awkward moment that followed
After learning he couldn't break up NVIDIA, Trump did what any rational person would do.
He invited Jensen Huang to stand up at the AI summit.
Then praised him publicly.
"What a job you've done!" Trump told the man he wanted to destroy 30 minutes earlier.
The crowd watched the President of the United States fanboy over a CEO he'd just learned existed.
Here's what Trump's advisors told him (and why it should terrify you)
NVIDIA's lead is so massive that "even the smartest teams" would need at least a decade to catch up.
Think about that.
The best engineers in the world, with unlimited funding, would need 10 years just to get close.
And that's assuming NVIDIA stands still. Which they won't.
Even if Jensen Huang retired tomorrow and NVIDIA made terrible decisions, they'd still dominate for years.
The uncomfortable truth about monopolies
We usually think monopolies happen because companies crush competition.
NVIDIA became a monopoly because they built something so advanced that competition became impossible.
They didn't buy out rivals. They made rivals irrelevant.
Every AI breakthrough you've heard about - ChatGPT, Google's AI, Elon's Grok - runs on NVIDIA chips.
Without NVIDIA, the AI revolution stops.
What this really means
The President of the United States just admitted something terrifying:
Even he can't control the companies that control our future.
NVIDIA doesn't just make chips. They control the infrastructure of intelligence itself.
Every AI model, every smart device, every autonomous car - it all runs through NVIDIA's ecosystem.
And they're so far ahead that breaking them up isn't just hard. It's impossible.
The plot twist nobody saw coming
After learning about NVIDIA's dominance, Trump completely flipped his strategy.
Instead of breaking them up, his new AI Action Plan focuses on helping American AI companies win globally.
The man who built his career on "America First" just realized that NVIDIA already IS America's secret weapon.
China can't build chips this advanced. Europe can't either.
NVIDIA gives America total control over the future of intelligence.
Why would you break up your own superpower?
Jensen Huang's masterclass in lobbying
While Trump was learning what NVIDIA does, Huang was already three steps ahead.
He successfully lobbied to relax export restrictions on NVIDIA's H20 AI chips to China.
Translation: He convinced the U.S. government to let him sell slightly less powerful chips to our biggest rival.
And he did it while Trump was still figuring out how to pronounce his name.
The question that'll keep you awake
If the President of the United States didn't know about the company that controls AI, what else don't our leaders understand about technology?
We're making laws about AI while our lawmakers are still learning what AI companies exist.
We're debating AI safety while the people in charge just discovered who builds the AI.
We're trying to regulate the future while we're still catching up to the present.
Here's what happens next
NVIDIA's $4 trillion valuation isn't the ceiling. It's the floor.
As AI gets more powerful, NVIDIA gets more valuable.
As more countries try to build AI, they all have to buy NVIDIA chips.
As competition heats up, NVIDIA's lead only grows.
Trump wanted to break up a monopoly and ended up celebrating it instead.
Because sometimes, the monopoly is the only thing standing between you and losing everything.
The uncomfortable reality
In the old economy, we worried about companies getting too big.
In the AI economy, we're terrified of our big companies not being big enough.
Because if NVIDIA wasn't American, we'd be screwed.
Every other country would control our intelligence infrastructure.
Every AI breakthrough would belong to someone else.
Every smart device would report to a foreign power.
Trump learned this lesson in real time. In front of cameras. At a press conference.
The question is: What other critical companies are our leaders still discovering?
P.S. Jensen Huang went from unknown CEO to Presidential guest of honor in one conversation. That's the power of owning the future.
P.P.S. Next time someone says they want to "break up Big Tech," ask them to name the companies first. The results might surprise you.
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