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.
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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.
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boss → appear → chips
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.
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that → appear → restrictions
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.
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Nvidia → be → 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.
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hawks → push → AI
Huang, for his part, had lobbied and spoken out against restrictions since the Biden administration first imposed limits in 2022.
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administration → lobby → 2022
Additionally, selling more chips to the world’s second largest economy could only help Nvidia’s bottom line.
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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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Megaspeed has bought billions of dollars in chips from Nvidia for data centers in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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Megaspeed → buy → Asia
Separately, the firm — backed by Chinese tech giant Alibaba — is under investigation for allegedly smuggling chips to China.
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The US government is probing reports that 50,000 chips sold to Megaspeed were seemingly missing following an audit.
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Here’s the latest on the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy:
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Nvidia reportedly intervened in that probe, according to Bloomberg.
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The Chinese government denies allegations of a honeypot spy scheme.
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Megaspeed also denies allegations of wrongdoing.
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Trump himself has downplayed Huang’s admission of infidelity and Nvidia’s board said the company, which has no succession plan for replacing Huang, had full confidence in him, even as it announced it was investigating the claims.
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On Monday, Trump said he called to check on Huang after he admitted cheating on his wife and apologized to his family.
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“I did speak to him today just to see if he’s feeling all right,” Trump said at the White House.
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“He said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy.
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person → say → question
I asked him that question.
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I → ask → question
Did you have any idea that she was a spy?
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she → have → idea
He said I had no idea that she was a spy, and I really believe him.”
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I → say → him
The president and the Nvidia “have become good friends,” a source close to them told The Post.
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Huang has made himself an integral part of the US economy.
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himself → make → economy
Nvidia reached a historic $5.5 trillion in valuation in May 2026, beating out Apple at the time as the most valuable public company in the entire world.
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It is both the world’s most important chipmaker, and the locus around which the AI boom spins.
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It uses the profits from its sales to help fund AI companies building out data centers, spurring further demand for its products.
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By some accounts the AI boom is expected to account for up to 4% of all US economic activity this year, and Nvidia’s revenues alone up to 1%.
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Trump personally hailed Nvidia’s latest quarter record sales of $96.2 billion in September, up 106% from last year.
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Trump → hail → September
Huang notably traveled with the president during his trip to China last May, with Trump even going as far as to personally invite the Nvidia boss to ride with him on Air Force One.
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When Huang couldn’t make it to Washington DC in time for departure, he took his private plane to Alaska to join the president during his refueling stop in Anchorage.
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Dressed in his signature black leather jacket and carrying only a backpack, Jensen boarded the presidential plane alone, without an entourage, pausing to speak with Trump’s son Eric, who was also on the trip, as he boarded.
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he → dress → trip
Huang and his wife were seated at the head table with the president and first lady Melania Trump at the September state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Huang → seat → Jinping
Trump was personally involved in selecting the guest list for that dinner, a source familiar with the planning told The Post.
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Along with the gains for his company, Huang’s relationship with Trump reportedly came with some perks of power.
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Huang called the president when his invitation to the April state dinner for King Charles arrived without a plus one, according to a source.
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The billionaire CEO wanted to bring his wife to the dinner.
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When White House staff told him there were no plus ones, he called Trump and made a personal appeal, getting Lori Huang on the list and bumping a senior administration official off of it to make room for her, multiple administration sources told The Post.
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The family has a $38 million home in San Francisco, with Nvidia spending nearly $4 million in fiscal 2026 on services for Huang that included home security, protection during personal travel, consulting and drivers, according to its May proxy filing.
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Huang has remained close to Trump, literally, traveling to the Middle East for Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in May 2025, then to London to join the president at Windsor Castle for a state dinner with King Charles that September.
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