The Jensen Huang honeytrap scandal proves this one thing about Trump

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All that posturing about ‘dominating the western hemisphere’ means nothing if you’re too blinded by your feelings to make logical decisions. And this has always been the problem with MAGA, writes Holly Baxter

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We all thought the AI bubble had burst in China, then Jensen Huang had an affair. Except, oops, it was two alleged affairs. And Donald Trump knew about at least one of them, apparently, but who doesn’t cheat on their wives and what damage can a woman really do?

Now that Jensen Huang has finally “resigned” (presumably been ousted) from Nvidia, it’s probably time to discuss how damaging such a belief system is — not for someone’s soul, but for national security. Because Trump’s blind spots, and the blind spots of the fools around him, allowed for a situation that made absolutely everybody vulnerable in an industry the US was supposed to “win”.

Trump’s first reaction to hearing that Huang was likely having an affair with a Chinese spy — an allegation that was shared with him by US intelligence, months ago — was, apparently, to ignore it. His second reaction, this week, when Huang’s affairs started making headlines, was to say that he thought Huang should stay on as CEO, that he’s a good guy and that it doesn’t feel like a big deal.

Trump believes in a back-slapping, boys’-club business world that doesn’t exist anymore. As we know, he loves a ceremony where he can slap on a hard hat and sign a beam. He loves talking about pipes and granite outside the Reflecting Pool. He does not seem to understand how catastrophic it is that Jensen Huang was having an affair with Alice Huang, whose Singapore-based business Megaspeed appears to have helped Nvidia chips make their way into China via Singapore.

But “he had no idea the person he was talking to was a spy,” said Trump, as if that isn’t entirely the point of spying. It’s also worth underlining that if you believe women are dispensable, naive fools, you won’t have the imagination to grasp how extremely clever women spies operate, and how extremely dangerous they can be to your national security.

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