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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a clickbait headline from Tom’s, as that’s not how the speech was worded. Per their own cherry picked quotes

    Trump continued, "I said, ‘Who the hell is he? What’s his name?’ 'His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ’ I said, ‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ I’ve never heard of it before.

    He’s implying he had never really heard of Nvidia before, like most of the US population.

    Tom’s does this all the time; they’re notorious for it in the PC Hardware news community.

    Yes Trump is an idiot and his speeches are stupid, but can we please not have ragebait stretching it even more?

    I’m sorry to keep bringing this up and getting so sour, but I feel like Lemmy’s information hygiene is deteriorating, and we’re happily upvoting it away. Big community mods need to put their foots down and put up basic soft rules, like:

    • Link the original source (in this case the NBC video), link the place you found it in the description.

    • Check the Wikipedia perennial news table (which, to be fair, Tom’s isn’t in yet): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Perennial_sources

    • Try to avoid ragebait

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Trying to put Trump quotes into context is like trying to read a Pollock, it’s not possible and it’s not supposed to be. Your interpretation really didn’t change any of the meaning for me, and it certainly didn’t contradict the headline.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here’s the actual video source:

        youtu.be/BrTT7dX0mcQ?t=851

        And if you don’t want that, a clip of the auto transcript I ripped from YouTube:

        …And a very special thanks to some of the top industry leaders including somebody that’s amazing. I said, “Look, we’ll break this guy up.” This is before I learned the facts of life. I said, “We’ll break them up.” They said, “No, sir. It’s very hard.” I said, “Why?” I said, “What percentages of the market does he have?” I said, “He has 100%.” I said, “Who the hell is he? What’s his name?” His name is Jensen Wong. Nvidia. I said, “What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before.” He said, “You don’t want to know about it, sir.” I figured we could go in and we could sort of break them up a little bit, get them a little competition. And I found out it’s not easy in that business. I said, “Supposing we put the greatest minds together. They work hand in hand for a couple of years.” He said, “No, it would take at least 10 years to catch him if he ran Nvidia totally incompetently from now on.” So, I said, “All right, let’s go on to the next one.” And then I got to know Jensen, and now I see why. Jensen, will you stand up? What a job. What a job you’ve done, man. Great. It’s a great He’s a great guy, too. Lisa…

        Trump’s clearly referencing learning about Nvidia in the past, and getting to know Jensen. Tom’s headline, on the other hand"

        President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn’t even know what it was — ‘What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before’

        Is worded to imply Trump didn’t know who Nvidia is during or just before the speech, cherry picking a quote with no context, but technically plausibly deniable. Call it what you want, but that is classic tabloid journalism from Tom’s.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      THANK YOU. I’ve said many times, lemmy will upvote anything they believe to be true without a second thought. Then we turn around and make fun of gullible Boomers on FaceBook.

      Around 1999 I learned to fact check if a headline or meme sounded crazy. Still applies today y’all!

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      • piefood@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I remember this happening back when everyone was using forums. This is a "Social Media" problem, not just a Lemmy problem. I have no idea how to fix it, but it's been around longer than votes have been a thing.

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Twitter did exactly one thing right, and it’s community notes. Lemmy could definitely use a feature like that where the users can provide context that corrects clickbait headlines. Other than comments of course.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. To be fair, everyone’s gotta slowly learn that.

        But I think it’s fair for communities/mods to lay down some posting standards.

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but they got high profile in like the 90s three decades ago

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nobody but computer nerds had heard of NVIDIA back then. Go outside right now and snatch 10 neighbors or strangers, ask them if they know anything about the company.

        I can only think of 3 people on my block who have heard of them. Me (35 years of IT), young neighbor (works county IT), young neighbor (PC gamer). Bet not another soul on the whole block would have a clue.

        As my favorite YouTuber Paul Harrell (RIP) always said:

        “Everything I’m saying today are my conclusions and my opinions. My opinions are based on my education, my training, my experience. Different people have different experiences so they have different opinions. I make no claim that my opinion has its origin in the mind of greatness. And if someone does tell you that their opinion has such origins, you should be very incredulous.”

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To PC gamers and hardware nerds. Not to the average person or the high levels of US politics.

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      100%.

      Frequently Lemmy left users appear as deluded as Trump supporters with their foaming at the mouth support for anything and everything anti Trump.

      It’s like hating Trump is a personality trait now, it’s fucking sad.

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for outting yourself. I haven’t blocked anyone here lately.

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      • yagurlreese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, I don’t have a problem with hating Trump being a personality trait. explain why I should like him, he’s represents everything I despise and it’s having the country somehow am even bigger laughing stock of the world. I mean I think he’s a character and fun to watch sometimes, but that’s about it. don’t really know how you can make Trump look worse than he already does with his hateful vile words and disgraceful record. he’s brought a new level of corruption to an already corrupt office, which I find quite astounding

        I can’t see how anyone would be like, ‘why are people so quickly anti trump’ if you ask noone with braincells and good intentions should be supporting him (or the Dems for that matter)! but certainly.mot ana administration that is actively covering up one of the greatest child trafficking rings in modern history.

        sorry for the rant but I just truley do not get this take 😭

        I’d be more shocked if I came to lemmy and it read like r/conservatives

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s also how we got Trump. We overfed the troll.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean I realize we're talking about a moron here but grammar is important:

      "I've never heard of them" vs "I had never heard of them"

      So no, not clickbait.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Trump continued, "I said, ‘Who the hell is he? What’s his name?’ 'His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ’ I said, ‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ I’ve never heard of it before.

        The journalist pretty clearly put the quotation marks in the wrong place. It should be this:

        Trump continued, "I said, ‘Who the hell is he? What’s his name?’ 'His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ’ I said, ‘What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before.’

        He’s quoting himself, in the past, saying “I’ve never heard of it before.” He’s not saying that he hasn’t heard of NVIDIA in the present moment. The context makes that clear, because in the next paragraph he describes how he got to know Jensen Huang and learn about NVIDIA. But the journalist closed the quote too early.

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    • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it was a couple of years ago, I made a reply on a thread where people were accusing the acreage Reddit user of being a bot or a shill (rightly so) - anyway, my position was that Lemmy is already being infected by similar.

      Oh man did people get salty; but I swear it’s only been getting worse.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not accusing anyone of being a bot or shill.

        But I think information hygiene is super, super important, lest the Fediverse meet the same fate as the rest of the internet.

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  • teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait until he learns they make chips. I can totally see him saying if Lay’s can make chips in the US then why can’t nvidia?

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    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “No, no, no, I like Pringles, Pringles are amazing, Pringles are great. Everybody here at the Oval Office loves Pringles, we can’t get enough of’em.”

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      • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re boycotting Pringles as an evil trap created by the democrats to trap their hands in the cans so they can’t vote.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He’d be the first one to ask … “Pringles come in a can? What are you talking about?”

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    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Took me a second more then I care to admit.

      Here I am thinking what does Lay’s have to do with chips, made of silicon.

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  • gonf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the guy who, as president, literally asked “who knew health care was so complicated”. And more recently, he thought he could waltz in any stop the fighting in the Middle East just by telling Israel and Palestine to get along, then threw a hissy fit when that didn’t work.

    How anyone takes this man seriously or thinks he’s anything but a complete moron is beyond me. Not knowing what the fuck he’s doing is literally his only move.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Art of the Deal

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apart from the fact that Trump is a pedophile, rapist, fascist, and a criminal, he and his entire administration are also incredibly incompetent.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      youtu.be/2EwvmpFC1Fo

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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg, this guy’s the fucking President of the USA… (I do have object permanence, yes, but he’s so fucking dumb, that I frequently re-experience the shock)

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you hear that he found proof that Obama was "sedacious"?

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      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was his proof cutting up all the times his name appeared in the Epstein files and then spelling “OBAMA BAD” with the few letters of what was left?

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      • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I once saw Obama having a covfefe.

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      • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        … my brain wants to assume it’s “seditious,” but my heart knows any assumption would be bold when it’s about what Trump meant…

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This felon rapist pedo is tanking fast.

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    • yagurlreese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      😭😭😭 needs to go faster

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good, NVIDIA can die for all I care with their anti consumer bullshit practises.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good.

    Now tell nvidia they can continue if they play nice with linux and use it as a bribe. And then call Adobe…

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How easy it was to make you aggree with trump.

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tim Nvidia will be pissed

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do it you fucking coward. While we’re at it, intel and amd as well

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    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Intel is at deaths door. You just need a gentle push…

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m glad they are at least trying to get into the GPU part of the business now.

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  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please take away Chrome and Andriod from Google first, please. Thank you.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    when trump is evil but the nvidia ceo is even eviler.

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    • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Has the Nvidia CEO sent swathes of innocent people into concentration camps?

      And man, Trump’s not even the most evil in his administration. That arguably goes to Stephen Miller.

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    • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dunno, that’s a pretty high bar to clear.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have a feeling that everyone in those positions of power are just competing for that title at this point

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    fuck nvidia

    also fuck Donald Trump, illiterate pedophile fuck.

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  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If Amerika makes so much energy maybe Canada should turn off our supply to them

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whenever a company has reached a critical size or control of the market that it is no longer incentived to serve the interests of its customers and starts serving its shareholder’s instead, it should be broken up. This is the only way you will see actual innovation and positive growth again.

    Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta are only a few in a long list that are long overdue to be broken up.

    That being said, Trump is more believably saying that to scare them into giving him a bride. He just pulled his head out of his ass just enough to hear about a “new” company with deep pockets and smelled the money.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know what? Good. Do it. Let’s see what happens.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let him cook that one though

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  • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bet he won’t be able to remember being a pedophile when the time comes.

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  • ptolemai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    nVidia? I barely even know her.

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  • lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I smell another “lawsuit” that is totally legit guys I swear, and NVidia just happens to settle out of court with DJT to the tune of millions even though every laywer/judge on the planet says the case is without merit. Move along, justice working as expected.

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  • yagurlreese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    some people on this thread need to understand that two things can be true,

    the headline can be misleading yea but it can also not really matter

    in other words, I’m the grand totality of all the actually harmful things he has said and actions he is doing… this feels like a nothing burger to me lollll. So people think he can just wear his little fingers and Nvidia magically breaks up? even if he goes after th administratively, it’s not like Nvidia would just roll over 😭it’s just absurd to even take this seriously in the first place imo. idk I think it’s funny people are debating about what he actually said when it doesn’t really matter, dudes going senile and Nvidia is gigantic corporation that can defend itself and also fuck it I wouldn’t mind if they got broken up tbh. people will find whatever to argue about

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh neat, the tech flavored distraction, place your bets on whats next. My bet is he tried that freedom fries shit again.

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  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fun

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  • Epzillon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kinda clears up his motives when he doesnt even know the name of the countries, even the worlds, largest company. Well fucking done, Mr. Clownident.

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  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am so sick of that fucking traitor cunt.

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