The second presidential administration of Donald Trump, beginning January 2025.
Actions from other entities targeting Trump Administration (2025-)
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20, 2026, Dario Amodei lambasted the Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips to China, calling it a 'major mistake' with 'incredible national security implications'.
In January 2026, Palmer Luckey publicly supported President Trump's plan to limit pay for defense contractor leaders and crack down on the defense industry, telling Bloomberg TV 'I think it's even good maybe to scare people sometimes.' He revealed he pays himself only $100,000 per year at Anduril. While noting some changes 'might not necessarily help the defense space,' he stood by Trump's policies despite the president's rebuke of defense companies and their CEOs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Trump and Republican senators in December 2025 to lobby for allowing exports of advanced H200 AI chips to China. The Trump administration subsequently approved conditional exports. Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized Huang for 'spending the past year lobbying the President to greenlight the sale of advanced AI chips to China.' Huang had previously called US export controls a 'failure' and faced backlash from Trump allies, with Steve Bannon labeling him a 'CCP supporter.'
SAP signed a new agreement with the General Services Administration to offer federal agencies access to its database, cloud, and analytics services at significantly discounted rates of up to 80%. This expanded SAP's relationship with the US federal government under the Trump administration.
Ted Sarandos cultivated relationship with Trump administration through multiple meetings. He dined at Mar-a-Lago in late 2024 and met Trump in the Oval Office for over an hour in November 2025. The meetings occurred as Netflix pursued an $82.7 billion Warner Bros. acquisition requiring regulatory approval. Trump called Sarandos 'fantastic' and 'a great person.'
In November 2025, Anthropic partnered with the Department of Energy and the Trump Administration on the Genesis Mission, combining DOE's scientific assets with Anthropic's AI capabilities to support American energy dominance and accelerate scientific productivity.
In November 2025, NSO Group named David Friedman, Trump's former ambassador to Israel, as Executive Chairman. This followed an October 2025 acquisition by U.S.-based investors led by film producer Robert Simonds. The appointment raises concerns about NSO's potential re-entry into U.S. markets after being placed on the Entity List.
In October 2025, Jensen Huang confirmed NVIDIA is donating to Trump's White House ballroom project, calling it 'a historic and national monument.' He also attended a $1M/person Mar-a-Lago dinner and closed his October 2025 keynote saying 'Thank you for your service in making America great again.'
In a Times Radio interview, Wales criticized President Trump's repeated 'fake news' claims, saying they mirror tactics used by strongmen around the world. He noted it was 'an astonishing situation' when a President 'clearly contradicts himself, or denies that he said things that we can all play tapes of him saying.'
On October 21, 2025, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen attended Trump's White House Diwali celebration alongside other Indian-American tech CEOs. He publicly thanked Trump, stating: 'What you're doing, Mr. President, to have peace and prosperity and investment in this country is just amazing... I would really like to thank you for your leadership.'
On October 10, 2025, Marc Benioff endorsed sending National Guard troops to San Francisco in an interview with the New York Times. On October 17, 2025, he apologized and retracted the comments after backlash from San Franciscans and local officials, helping persuade Trump to hold off on a federal surge into the city.
President Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao in October 2025 following his federal conviction and prison sentence for anti-money laundering violations at Binance.
Court filings revealed Alphabet will contribute $22 million 'on behalf' of Trump to the Trust for the National Mall for construction of the White House State Ballroom. The contribution resulted from a settlement over Trump's lawsuit against YouTube for banning him after January 6, 2021. The $300-400 million ballroom project is funded by multiple Big Tech companies. Shortly after the settlement was disclosed, the DOJ approved Alphabet's $30B+ acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz.
T-Mobile is among the corporations supporting a new $300 million ballroom that will replace the East Wing of the White House, according to a list provided by the Trump administration. The donation amount was not disclosed.
Throughout 2025, Anthropic lobbied members of Congress to vote against federal bills that would preempt states from regulating AI. Anthropic was the only major AI lab to back California's SB 53, which required transparency from leading AI labs. White House AI czar David Sacks accused Anthropic of running a 'sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering'.
YouTube/Alphabet agreed to pay $24.5M to settle Trump's lawsuit over his 2021 account suspension following Jan 6. Of this, $22M goes to Trump's Trust for the National Mall for a new White House State Ballroom. Settlement negotiations included mediation at Mar-a-Lago with Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin. Legal experts called it 'straight influence-peddling' with no legal merit.
Despite years of major Democratic donations including $7M to Harris, Reed Hastings publicly endorsed Trump's executive order establishing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applicants. He posted on X: 'I've worked on H1-B politics for 30 years. Trump's $100K per year tax is a great solution.'
Lisa Su attended the September 4, 2025 White House Rose Garden dinner with tech leaders hosted by President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. She praised the administration for supporting the semiconductor industry, noting the 'incredible acceleration' the industry has seen since Trump took office.
In August 2025, Amazon Web Services provided the Trump administration with a $1 billion coupon for migrating the federal government's IT infrastructure onto AWS cloud services.
In August 2025, Perplexity was contracted to produce Truth Search AI, a chatbot for Donald Trump's Truth Social platform. Perplexity spokesman Jesse Dwyer stated: 'This is their choice for their audience, and we are committed to developer and consumer choice.' Ironically, the chatbot contradicted Trump by stating tariffs are a tax on Americans and that the 2020 election wasn't stolen.