Jensen Huang lobbied very good friend Trump for more Nvidia sales to China while caught in Beijings honeytrap
SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made himself President Trump’s “very good friend” and lobbied the administration to loosen restrictions on AI chip sales to China while he was allegedly ensnared in a Chinese honeytrap, a timeline of his reported relationship with Alice Huang shows.The $150 billion AI boss appeared in loved-up snaps with accused communist spy Alice Huang last year — and then weeks later personally pitched Trump at the White House on relaxing export restrictions for the company’s chips.Huang missed Trump’s second inauguration, but then more than made up for it with a $25 million donation to the president’s ballroom project. The 63-year-old appeared at a $1 million-per-person dinner at Mar-a-Lago in April 2025, where he pushed to lift chip restrictions that had just been imposed.There were at least three documented meetings between Trump and Huang where the administration responded with policy changes that made it easier for Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China.China hawks have long pushed to restrict the most cutting edge chips from the communist regime in an attempt to blunt its technological advances and stymie its attempts to overtake the US on AI.Huang, for his part, had lobbied and spoken out against restrictions since the Biden administration first imposed limits in 2022.
Additionally, selling more chips to the world’s second largest economy could only help Nvidia’s bottom line.But all the while, Huang — who has been married to college sweetheart Lori for more than 40 years — was meeting with 42-year-old Alice.In May 2025, they were spotted at dinner together during Taiwan’s top tech expo, where she looked at him adoringly and affectionately touched his arm as they sat with other tech honchos.Alice Huang — a TV host, turned banker, turned executive at the Singapore-based AI computing company Megaspeed — met Jensen Huang (no relation) in early 2024, according to reports.
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