Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during an internal all-hands meeting

During Nvidia’s all-hands meeting on August 28, 2026, CEO Jensen Huang received a call on his mobile phone from President Donald Trump and stepped aside to take it, according to three witnesses cited by WIRED.

Staffers in Santa Clara and remote attendees heard Trump’s voice through Huang’s onstage microphone, though the content of the brief call was not discernible to the audience.

Huang returned to the meeting within less than a minute and resumed the session. A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to comment on the incident.

Later the same day, Trump posted on Truth Social congratulating Huang on Nvidia’s ‘incredible’ quarterly sales and positive financial forecast.

Nvidia had reported second-quarter revenue of $96 billion on August 27, an increase of 106% from the same period the prior year.

The call occurred as Nvidia announced a new employee-funded political action committee to donate to federal candidates amid growing debate over AI policy.

Nvidia and the Trump administration have previously disagreed on regulating open AI models and the sale of advanced chips to China.

Bloomberg Law separately reported that Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, which Business Insider valued at more than $13 billion.