Trump floats Apple chairman Tim Cook as Nvidia's next CEO

Nov 12, 2026
'A Legend replaces a Legend!' the president wrote on Truth Social hours after Jensen Huang resigned. Cook stepped down as Apple CEO in September.

President Donald Trump has suggested Tim Cook should succeed Jensen Huang as chief executive of Nvidia, TechCrunch reported. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that "only one man" could take Huang's place, Tim Cook of Apple, adding: "A Legend replaces a Legend!"

Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO on Thursday, effective immediately, and chief financial officer Colette Kress is serving as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor among internal and external candidates.

Cook stepped down as Apple's CEO on 1 September after 15 years, handing the job to John Ternus, and became executive chairman of Apple's board. Trump is not the first to name him: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management argued in a Time op-ed on Wednesday that Cook should be among the candidates, citing his record of succeeding a larger-than-life founder at Apple.

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