Nvidia's Jensen Huang Takes Live Trump Call Onstage at All-In Summit

At the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was mid-panel with the show's venture capitalist hosts — Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, and White House adviser David Sacks — when President Trump rang his phone. Rather than let it go to voicemail, Huang put Trump on speaker for the audience. Trump dismissed calls for AI development restraint as a 'hoax,' saying the sentiment was playing 'right into the hands' of political opponents and China. Huang agreed, telling the president, 'We're not going to let that happen, sir,' to applause from the crowd. The conversation was a direct response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent public statement urging a slowdown in AI capability improvement — a position that has since drawn support from both Elon Musk and Sam Altman, putting Huang in the minority among major AI-adjacent executives. Trump also gestured at a more measured framing, adding that progress should proceed 'prudently' without stopping the industry entirely. The spectacle drew immediate social media attention. Meanwhile, public sentiment data complicates the 'psyop' framing: a recent Gallup poll found 70% of Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, with over half citing environmental concerns and roughly 20% pointing to cost-of-living impacts.