{"id":3187,"date":"2025-08-16T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3187\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:34:14","slug":"intel-chief-executive-learns-the-art-of-staying-in-trumps-good-books-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3187\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel chief executive learns the art of staying in Trump\u2019s good books \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A warm word for Donald Trump<\/a> can thaw the frostiest of corporate spats. Less than a week after demanding the resignation of Intel<\/a> chief Lip-Bu Tan<\/a>, Trump hailed his career as \u201can amazing story\u201d. <\/p>\n

And Intel\u2019s shares jumped on Thursday and Friday amid reports that the Trump administration had discussed an unusual move to acquire an ownership stake as part of a plan to revive the troubled US chipmaker.<\/p>\n

All of this followed a meeting Trump described as \u201cvery interesting\u201d. Intel\u2019s shares, which fell after Trump accused Tan of being \u201chighly CONFLICTED\u201d over past investments in Chinese chipmakers, duly rebounded.<\/p>\n

Tan\u2019s initial sin? Unlike other tech chief executives, noted one Bernstein analyst, he hadn\u2019t \u201ccultivated\u201d a \u201cpersonal relationship\u201d with Trump. <\/p>\n

Intel and Tan have learned their lesson, praising the \u201chonour\u201d of meeting Trump, his \u201cstrong leadership,\u201d and reaffirming their commitment to the \u201cAmerica First agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Such gestures can pay off handsomely. Apple\u2019s Tim Cook<\/a> gifted Trump a $6,000 Mac Pro in 2019 after he lowered tariffs on parts Apple needed from China, and also gave $1 million to his 2025 inauguration fund. <\/p>\n

More recently, he presented a gold-mounted glass plaque praising Trump\u2019s \u201cleadership\u201d and was soon spared from new chip tariffs \u2013 another exercise in calculated appeasement.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> has pivoted from banning Trump on Facebook to describing him as \u201cbadass\u201d and championing \u201cmasculine energy\u201d in the workplace.<\/p>\n

However, they pale beside Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang, who has lavished praise on Trump\u2019s \u201cutterly visionary\u201d tariffs and insisted: \u201cThe president has a plan … and I trust him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lesson: in Trump\u2019s America, keeping the president\u2019s favour is as critical as any quarterly earnings target. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A warm word for Donald Trump can thaw the frostiest of corporate spats. Less than a week after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,356,18,19,3572,17,3573,3574,1721,1722,292,310,1411],"class_list":{"0":"post-3187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-intel","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jensen-huang","15":"tag-lip-bu-tan","16":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-nvidia","19":"tag-tim-cook","20":"tag-us-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}