HYGO News Nvidia's Jensen Huang at the White House: AI Chips 'All Here in United States' Thanks to Trump's 'Strong Encouragement' (April 30, 2025)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the White House that America will build the world’s most powerful AI chips at home, and he gave President Donald Trump the credit. “And we’re going to build Nvidia’s technology, the next generation of that, all here in United States,” Huang said in the Cross Hall on April 30, 2025, according to the transcript published by the American Presidency Project [1].
Without “the President’s leadership, his policies, his support, and, very importantly, his strong encouragement,” Huang said to laughter, “frankly, manufacturing in the United States wouldn’t have accelerated through this pace.” [1]
The video above shows Huang at the White House investment event on April 30, 2025. Quotes are from the American Presidency Project and Nvidia [1][2].
”This Is a Smart Cookie”
Trump introduced him. “He’s producing up to $500 billion over the next four years to manufacture the most powerful AI chips entirely in the USA, for the first time ever,” Trump said. “This is a smart cookie.” [1]
“Nvidia reinvented computing for the first time after 60 years,” Huang said. “Well, after all this time, we’ve reinvented computers again.” [1]
He showed off one of Nvidia’s processors. “That GPU—that’s one GPU unit, and it’s 70 pounds, 60,000 parts, 10,000 watts,” Huang said [1].
“It is so heavy that it requires robotics to do. It’s so precise. And just to test a supercomputer requires a supercomputer,” he said [1].
”Close to $8 Trillion”
Trump said the business leaders in the room had made historic commitments. “And since the election, the companies represented in this room have collectively announced more than $2 trillion in new investments, and we have a total of close to $8 trillion, all told,” he said [1].
“We’re going to have ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ like we haven’t had before in a long time,” Trump said [1].
“In Biden’s final year, the United States had the worst trade deficit ever recorded, and we lost 106,000 manufacturing jobs,” Trump said. “Every new investment, every new factory, and every new job created is a sign of strength in American economy and a declaration of confidence in America’s future.” [1]
“The entire Trump economic agenda is about making it easier to do business in America, to create jobs in America, to hire American workers, and to build your factories here in America, not in China or any other country,” Trump said [1].
Who’s Building in America
Trump went down the list. “Tim Cook from Apple is pledging—not only pledging, has committed to $500 billion,” he said [1].
“José is investing $21 billion, including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana,” Trump said of Hyundai CEO José Muñoz [1].
Of shipping giant CMA CGM, he said: “Investing $20 billion and creating 10,000 new jobs at least.” [1]
Of IBM, he said: “One hundred and fifty billion. That’s all, huh?” [1]
Of Eli Lilly, Trump said: “Twenty-seven billion dollars, doubling its manufacturing investment in the U.S.” [1]
“We are, today, 125 years old, but we are inventing the future of flight,” said GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp. “Today, we power three-quarters of the world’s commercial airlines and nearly two-thirds of the U.S. military combat jets and helicopters.” [1]
“U.S. is the center of innovation. U.S. must continue the leadership of AI,” said SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son [1].
Trump also eyed the 125-pound Roadrunner drone from Anduril on display. “That’s a nasty looking thing,” he joked [1].
”Make Your Product in the U.S.A.”
Trump pitched more tax relief for companies that build here. The big, beautiful bill “will include 100 percent expensing retroactive to January 20,” he said [1].
“Now we’re bringing your taxes down from 21 percent to 15 percent if you build your product—make your product in the U.S.A.,” Trump said [1].
“So, if you make it in the U.S.A.—those chips, those beautiful chips, we’ll make those suckers in the U.S.A., and you’re going to be all the way down to 15 percent,” he said [1].
”Double the Electricity”
Trump said meeting with tech leaders taught him something. “Number one, I learned we need double the electricity that we have right now for the whole country,” he said [1].
He said he told the companies building AI plants: “And if you want, I’ll let you build your own utility plant, your own electric plant, along with your building.” [1]
Trump also joked about putting Huang on his trade team. “I could have Jensen negotiating. He’d blow my people away, wouldn’t you?” he said, to laughter [1].
He noted the military’s turnaround too. “We have the largest number of new enlistees or people enlisting in the military forces that we’ve ever had,” Trump said [1].
By the Numbers
- $500 billion: Nvidia’s planned U.S. AI chip production over four years, per Trump [1].
- $500 billion: Apple’s U.S. commitment, per Trump [1].
- $150 billion: IBM’s investment, per Trump [1].
- Close to $8 trillion: total new investment, per Trump [1].
- 70 pounds: the weight of one Nvidia GPU unit, per Huang [1].
What Happened Next
The first American Blackwell. On Oct. 17, 2025, Huang visited TSMC’s plant in Phoenix “to celebrate the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil, representing that Blackwell has reached volume production,” Nvidia said [2].
“It’s the very first time in recent American history that the single most important chip is being manufactured here in the United States by the most advanced fab, by TSMC, here in the United States,” Huang said [2].
“This is the vision of President Trump of reindustrialization — to bring back manufacturing to America, to create jobs,” Huang said [2].
For Huang at Trump’s AI summit in July, see HYGO News’ page on July 23, 2025. For Trump’s Cabinet meeting earlier the same day, see the page on April 30, 2025.