Trump’s Frantic Call to Sex-Mad Billionaire Pal Exposed

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President Donald Trump personally begged his billionaire buddy not to throw in the towel after his multiple alleged extramarital affairs were exposed to the world.

Trump, 80, called ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday to urge him not to step down, two people familiar with the conversation told The New York Times.

Huang, 63, ultimately announced his resignation as president and CEO of the world’s second-most valuable company on Thursday, after reports that he had engaged in multiple affairs, including with two subordinates at Nvidia.

On Sunday, the world’s eighth-richest man admitted to an adulterous relationship with Alice Huang, a business executive at the Singapore-based AI infrastructure firm Megaspeed.

U.S. intelligence determined that Huang, a Chinese citizen unrelated to the tech billionaire, is a suspected spy for Beijing.

Aides told the Times that Trump was less concerned with the national security implications of Huang’s scandal and saw it more as a matter of adultery, which he disregarded as being inconsequential to the country’s defense.

Trump was more concerned about the market impact of Huang stepping down, aides told the newspaper, viewing the Nvidia co-founder’s success as being intertwined with the U.S. economy and stock market. The president allegedly asked aides what would happen to the markets if Huang stepped down, fearing an abrupt decline.

Trump confirmed he had spoken with Huang on a phone call during an interview with sports commentator Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday.

“He’s a tremendous talent,” he said of Huang, praising the engineer’s development of AI chips that “can’t be copied because of their level of genius.”

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