{"id":4306,"date":"2026-11-12T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:03:50","slug":"trump-says-ex-apple-ceo-cook-is-a-legend-should-replace-huang-at-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"Trump says ex Apple CEO Cook is &#8216;a legend&#8217;, should replace Huang at Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump said on Thursday \u200bthat former Apple Inc<\/strong><u>.<\/u> <strong>Chief Executive Tim Cook should replace \u200cJensen Huang as the CEO of Nvidia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take \u200bhis place &#8211; TIM COOK of Apple,\u201d Trump said on social \u200bmedia. \u201cA Legend replaces a Legend!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cook stepped down after \u2060a 15-year stint as Apple\u2019s CEO in September and is now \u200bexecutive chairman at the iPhone-maker.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Cook did not immediately respond to \u200brequests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Cook presented Trump with a custom US-made plaque mounted on a 24-carat gold stand commemorating Apple\u2019s \u201cAmerican Manufacturing Program\u201d, after saying it would invest \u200ban additional $100 billion in domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Huang resigned as CEO and a member \u200bof the board on Thursday after reports said he had an affair with a \u200cChinese \u2060businesswoman whom US authorities suspect of spying for Beijing. Nvidia has announced that Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress will take over as interim CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has maintained close ties with top US tech executives in \u200bhis second term, said on Monday that he had spoken to Huang and the CEO told him that he did not know the woman \u200blinked to him was allegedly a spy. Huang is \u200bone of \u2060Trump\u2019s closest allies in Silicon Valley, and the relationship between the two dates to at least 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, Huang has repeatedly \u2060voiced \u200bsupport for the administration\u2019s agenda and become \u200ba regular presence in Washington as Nvidia sought to sell advanced chips to the Chinese \u200bmarket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Thursday \u200bthat former Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook should replace \u200cJensen Huang as the CEO of Nvidia. \u201cNOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take \u200bhis place &#8211; TIM COOK of Apple,\u201d Trump said on social \u200bmedia. \u201cA Legend replaces a Legend!\u201d he added. Cook stepped down after \u2060a 15-year stint as Apple\u2019s CEO in September and is now \u200bexecutive chairman at the iPhone-maker. Apple and Cook did not immediately&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}