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The CEO of the world’s second most valuable company in the world has stepped down amid a sex and spying scandal, and President Donald Trump has weighed in on who he thinks should replace him.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump wrote that “only one man” could take the place of now-former Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who resigned from his post on Thursday after the tech giant was rocked by reports he had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy — former Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Trump added that a decision by Nvidia’s board to name Cook as Huang’s successor would mean “a Legend replaces a Legend.”
Cook, 66, served as Apple’s chief operating officer from 2005 until he was elevated to be the company’s CEO after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs. He stepped down as Apple’s CEO earlier this year but has remained the company’s executive chairman.
Huang’s shock resignation came on Thursday amid a scandal that has wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off the chipmaker’s market value, with share prices plunging 10 percent Thursday morning.
His troubles began last week when The New York Times reported that he’d carried on a long affair with another technology executive…
