Trump Calls Intel CEO a 'Success' After Demanding Resignation (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/2236208/trump-calls-intel-ceo-a-success-after-demanding-resignation
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/intel-ceo-trump-lip-bu-tan.html
> Tan has been an Intel director since 2022, and in March he replaced Pat Gelsinger as CEO. Last week Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., questioned Tan's ties to China. Cotton brought up a past criminal case involving Cadence Design, where Tan had been CEO, and asked whether Intel required Tan to divest from positions in chipmakers linked to the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army and any other concerning entities in China.
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> Trump's latest message marks a stark change in tone from last week. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, the president wrote that Tan "is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem." Intel said in [4]a comment later that day that the company, directors and Tan are "deeply committed to advancing U.S. national and economic security interests."
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/07/1427230/us-president-calls-on-intel-ceo-to-resign-over-china-ties
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/intel-ceo-trump-lip-bu-tan.html
[3] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115012131343690532
[4] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/0721242/intel-ceo-hits-out-at-misinformation-after-us-president-calls-on-him-to-resign
I have some namesci call Trump (Score:2)
But I would be kicked off slashdot for posting suck obscenities, he calls himself a stable genius but he behaves like an erratic retard
Re:I have some namesci call Trump (Score:4, Informative)
It's erratic only to us, not to him and his allies. Tell allies to short the stock, call Intel CEO resignation, shares fall, tell allies to long the stock, say CEO is a success, shares rise.
Rinse, repeat.
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If you can spot the trades you've got something. If not then it's just speculation.
Re:I have some namesci call Trump (Score:4, Informative)
> If you can spot the trades you've got something. If not then it's just speculation.
In April, there was a subtantive amount of activiy [1]buying same day expiring call options [ainvest.com] minutes before he told everyone it was a good time to buy.
Marjorie Taylor Greene [2]made stock purchases [yahoo.com] days before Palantir was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. government. Her trades are up 142% since then.
[1] https://www.ainvest.com/news/wtf-option-bets-surge-trump-tweet-2504/
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/majorie-taylor-greene-142-stocks-215758255.html
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It seems his net worth has doubled since his first term. [1]https://www.bloomberg.com/feat... [bloomberg.com]
What an odd fucking coincidence.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-trump-family-presidency-wealth/
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If you CAN'T spot the trades by now, then you never will. They aren't doing it stealthily anymore, just like Trump isn't TRYING to look like he cares about the constitution or the law.
This would be funny (Score:2)
In another universe where an elderly man didn’t command a cult and a government.
Re: This would be funny (Score:2)
With nukes. You forgot the nukes.
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> You forgot the nukes.
It'd be a lot easier to keep doing so if you'd quit bringing them up
"Trump Calls- (Score:2)
-the President of the US a loser, says they should resign and let a real leader like him take over." - the inevitable, logical outcome
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Well, some idiot president appointed Jerome Powell.
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No, it's pure market manipulation... Find who sold INTC 3 days ago and bought back today and you find the ones that will give him a cut of the profits.
Re: He got his gold MacGuffin (Score:2)
My name will appear on that list for buying INTC on the Trump tweet. Itâ(TM)s called the T.A.C.O. trade and is well established by now.
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Anyone who pays him off is a success apparently. Even if he does not keep the money himself (although he may think that he will once he is king)
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You have something on your nose.
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Trump is senile and has been for a long time. "The weave" can only cover it up so much as time goes on, he doesn't control it anymore.
Concerns? (Score:2)
Isn't anyone concerned that Trump is taking military control of Washington DC?
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Should we be? Trump told us he would do these things, plus the purpose is to distract the country from Epstein.
Maybe this time they won't ignore Trump's order to shoot protesters in the streets. Plus Alligator Alcatraz can't take the entire black population of DC.
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Ok I'm thinking Hitler said he would do a lot of things too that people allowed...
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If Trump were Hitler, Joe Biden wouldn't have happened.
Dial it back a notch, I'm worried about your blood pressure.
Look- he has the power to take over the police functions of the district. He has the power deploy the military when people get in the way of enforcing Federal law.
Maybe it's time an incomplete shitwad DID use those powers, so that we can all fucking remember they're there- granted by Congress- under the assumption that someone like this would never be in office.
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> If Trump were Hitler, Joe Biden wouldn't have happened.
> Dial it back a notch, I'm worried about your blood pressure.
> Look- he has the power to take over the police functions of the district. He has the power deploy the military when people get in the way of enforcing Federal law.
> Maybe it's time an incomplete shitwad DID use those powers, so that we can all fucking remember they're there- granted by Congress- under the assumption that someone like this would never be in office.
Trump is not Hitler. However, he does aspire to be Putin, Xi, and other autocrats. Trump already had this aspiration in his first term, but the didn't fully appreciate how much the Constitution holds him back from being an autocrat. In his second term, he has learned what the weaknesses of the Constitution are. The biggest weakness is that the the judiciary and the legislature are forced to rely solely on the president to obey laws and court orders and thus are essentially powerless in the face of a pre
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> Trump is not Hitler. However, he does aspire to be Putin, Xi, and other autocrats.
Couldn't agree more. He's very much an aspiring dictator.
> Trump already had this aspiration in his first term, but the didn't fully appreciate how much the Constitution holds him back from being an autocrat.
Yup.
> In his second term, he has learned what the weaknesses of the Constitution are.
I'm about to lose you here, aren't I.
> The biggest weakness is that the the judiciary and the legislature are forced to rely solely on the president to obey laws and court orders and thus are essentially powerless in the face of a president who choses to ignore them.
Except he isn't, now is he?
If we want to measure "lawlessness" in terms of how much a President ignores laws and judgements, he's not anywhere close to top of the list.
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[1]That's what it looks like when Hitler tries. [wikipedia.org]
Not to belittle 1/6- but still, that was precisely him hoping for something without trying in the slightest.
He's too much of a fucking cuck.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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Oh Trump tried, 1/6 was just the last attempt. Or the culmination of a plan depending on how you look at it.
[1]Trump fake electors plot [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
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I’m fucking terrified. The “don’t tread on me” crowd sure is silent on this matter. I guess they secretly love to be tread on.
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It really is frightening to contemplate how far he might be able to push this kind of stuff. This is a completely manufactured crisis, DC's rate of crime may be high but it isnt even close to being the highest in the country [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] .
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
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Not really, are you?
I mean sure, it's a shit show, but his power is limited.
If he exceeds it, that's when this gets fun.
But so far, he's coloring in the lines, which makes me think he's just looking to demonstrate (successfully) how stupid we've been to give so much power to the Executive without oversight.
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The "oversight" consists of his hand picked people or people who are scared to hell of him. He openly supports violent criminals, and all he has to do is make a social media post and they will go after judges, or any politician.
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List the number of Judges and politicians taken out by Trump supporters.
You can limit it to just the top 5, if you like.
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Do you deny that Judges and Politicians get 10x to 100x the number of death threats after Trump tells his Brown Shirts that they "hate America"? Do you deny that Judges family members have been killed as a direct result? Do you deny that as a result of Jan 6, and Trumps rhetoric, that five police officers died? Do you deny? and deny? and deny?
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> Do you deny that Judges and Politicians get 10x to 100x the number of death threats after Trump tells his Brown Shirts that they "hate America"?
Nope.
> Do you deny that Judges family members have been killed as a direct result?
Nope. There has indeed been a single instance of it.
> Do you deny that as a result of Jan 6, and Trumps rhetoric, that five police officers died?
Well, no police officers died as a direct result of 1/6- however, there were some very sad suicides.
> Do you deny? and deny? and deny?
Do you deny that politicians have been shot and killed by liberal activists?
Now, as I said- list the number of judges and politicians taken out by Trump supporters.
There are fucking nutballs of every political persuasion. What makes Trump's shitbags Brown Shirts, and the noble warriors shooting up Congressional tennis matches or firebombing houses no
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[1]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/s... [pbs.org] Mr. Trump and members of his administration have been openly critical of some judges, calling them radical, lunatics or lawless, and suggesting some should be impeached. A recent report from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism found — quote — "Violent threats and calls for impeachment against judges have risen by an alarming 327 percent between May of 2024 and March of 2025." Yesterday, leadership from the Judicial Conference — that's the poli
[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/lives-are-at-stake-judge-whose-son-was-murdered-urges-leaders-to-end-hostile-rhetoric
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Lumping violent threats and calls for impeachment together is pretty fucking weasely, don't you think?
It's almost like one of those is a prescribed political solution, and one of them is, well, terrorism.
Do you think all of that 327% was conservative threats? Have you forgotten the L's that liberal causes in the courts have taken in the last 2 years?
This is the problem- you're entirely disconnected from reality. You think your shit don't stink.
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I don't think that it is too much to expect for our elected leaders to lead by example. That they do not call other people degrading names, and that they don't incite violence against those we simply disagree with.
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> I don't think that it is too much to expect for our elected leaders to lead by example.
I agree with you. Shittiest example set by a President in... fuck, it almost seems quaint to bother to guess how long. Dude's more of an embarrassment than Nixon.
> That they do not call other people degrading names, and that they don't incite violence against those we simply disagree with.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Above, I said I agree that right-wing political violence is a larger problem than left-wing.
However, left-wing political violence (and threats) are also a very large problem.
Liberals and Conservatives have similar body counts right now.
In terms of threatening Judges- both of them do it.
Trump is accelerating this-
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Reasonable. In my mind we need to get the extreme 10% of the left and the right out of elected office ASAP. I would go for ranked choice voting, fair voting districts, and proportional voting where a person can vote for a party, and the percentage is represented in Government.
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One of the big problems here is that he's testing the restrictiveness of said limitations to an extent that we've never seen in post WW2 America. It doesn't at all feel like that's something an honest president would be doing. Sure, we might come out of this wiser in regards to garbage leadership like this but that hardly seems like a guaranteed result right now.
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I agree with all of your sentiments, except for your concern that he's going to somehow take his douchebaggery to the level of dictatorship.
I think if someone handed him a dictatorship, he'd take it- no question.
The Guard deployment to LA- come on. Are they under fucking martial law over there?
It's ridiculously inappropriate. It's as you said- manufactured bullshit. But it's not like he's done anything of actual consequence, nor do I think he has the balls to. There's no way someone who tries to use the
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> I agree with all of your sentiments, except for your concern that he's going to somehow take his douchebaggery to the level of dictatorship.
He literally said he would be a dictator, but only on the first day. I sure do feel relieved.
[1]https://apnews.com/article/tru... [apnews.com]
> I think if someone handed him a dictatorship, he'd take it- no question.
The Supreme court did just that.
> But it's not like he's done anything of actual consequence, nor do I think he has the balls to. There's no way someone who tries to use the resources available to the Federal Government to impose a dictatorship gets a happy ending.
47% of MAGA would still support him even if he fucked children. [2]https://www.yahoo.com/news/art... [yahoo.com]
[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-47-republicans-still-130000101.html?guccounter=1
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Not really. It's a Federal district, and one of his staffers got mugged and severely beaten in a failed carjacking attempt. The crime situation there is - while slowly improving! allegedly! - pretty bad.
If the President doesn't trust the popo to save his Big Balls (or whoever else) from violent gangs then bringing in some National Guard units to a city owned and operated by the Feds to reinforce policing is, at worst, a little over the top.
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Washington has the least crime in 30 years.
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MAGAs don't operate on facts nor statistics, it is about what they want. They look for an example, generalize it to everything, and then that becomes their "alternate fact".
So... (Score:5, Insightful)
> Trump Calls Intel CEO a 'Success' After Demanding Resignation
How much $TRUMP coin did the guy buy?
He found out that LBT is filthy rich (Score:2)
and super well connected
Schizophrenia or market manipulation (Score:2)
Seriously. What is he doing?
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Apparently whatever he wants. I guess he saw some homeless people while his row of cars were driving him to his $10,000 a day per person golf course. He didn't like how it looked, so he called out the National Guard, and told all homeless people to stay out of his sight.
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Neither, he's taking soft control of the company so they'll be amenable to whatever future plan he has for them, be it spinning off the fabs or whatever else he has in mind.
If Trump's staffers understand anything about the semiconductor business (which is questionable) then he's probably getting them ready for a spinoff of IFS. Then Trump will strongarm TSMC into buying 49% of IFS.
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> Neither, he's taking soft control of the company so they'll be amenable to whatever future plan he has for them, be it spinning off the fabs or whatever else he has in mind.
> If Trump's staffers understand anything about the semiconductor business (which is questionable) then he's probably getting them ready for a spinoff of IFS. Then Trump will strongarm TSMC into buying 49% of IFS.
So government is seizing the means of production? Sounds like communism to me. I thought you were all about small government not meddling with private enterprise?
Trophy? (Score:2)
Wow, Mr. Tan must have given him a much nicer trophy than Tim Apple gave him last week.
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Collecting solid gold swag from CEOs is such a baller move.
He successfully resigned (Score:2)
Seriously, he did what Trump told him to do. That's "success" in the eyes of Trump.
WTF is this tag line of his? (Score:2)
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
He's been ending posts with this non-sequitir add-on a fair bit lately. In his head does he think it's the 50s/60s and he's sending out delinquency notices to his father's tenants?
That would explain a lot of things, admittedly...
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Worse. It's what he is telling Putin to ask him to end the Ukraine aggression.
Of course, he has to tread carefully in this case to prevent the release of the pee-pee tape.
Pedantic idea incoming (Score:1)
Calling a person a failure (long term condemnation) and saying that they had a success(shorter victory) are not comparable idea and the headline is misleading. That being said: screw Trump and his fascist cronies. Iâ(TM)m here to be pedantic about your words. No more, no less.
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To be doubly pedantic, he is calling LBP a success - noun.
But Fuck Trump.
Epstein files please? (Score:2)
Anyway good to know the guy with the nuclear launch codes is completely balls to the walls senile.
Aren't you MAGAts glad Sleepy Joe isn't in charge? He'll trans your kids!
How are those cheap eggs treating you?
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**are eggs cheap now**???????? **/hiding/**
***takes billions of government dollars*** (Score:2)
Nah... I changed my mind. I'm not going to build those fabs or supply those jobs, I changed my mind and I'm not giving back the money. Sincerely, Lip-bu Tan CEO Intel
Agreed on the backdoor (Score:2)
Easy he was talked to and approved the backdoor. Or errr another backdoor door
Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Funny)
It is a drama every day!
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I mean really. How can anyone respect what this guy says? I feel like I'm living in crazy town with having to take this nonsense seriously.
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Interesting)
I urge you to head over to Conservative gathering places like r/Conservative and see how they think these theatrics in inability to even stay on his own message are signs of his political genius,.
MAGA is a religion, a sort of neo-Pharaohism, where Trump is given the same god-like powers as kings like Ramses or Alexander the Great. He is incapable in their eyes of anything short of complete brilliance, so that even when it's clear he's a moron, they take that evidence of intense terminal stupidity as a sign of just how powerful his brilliance is.
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It is definitely the strongest cult of personality that has existed in my lifetime.
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It's even stronger than Reagan's was, which frankly surprises (and scares) me. And Reagan had the advantage of being an actor - Trump just looks and sounds like a blow-hard buffoon every time he opens his mouth, but people just lap it up.
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Reagan in my mind got better and more wise over time. He liked Immigrants for example. I don't think Trump will age well over time. His first term ended with the worse stats since the Great Depression, and he is on the path to do even worse now.
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Reagan was in pretty serious cognitive decline during his second term, which his Cabinet basically concealed. This is the American system, where even obvious signs that someone is cognitively compromised isn't enough to remove them. Basically the only time the 25th Amendment could ever work is if the President's brain falls out of his head, but the brainstem stays intact and keeps informing the heart to pump. Other than that, the Cabinet and Congressional leaders will do everything in their power to keep ev
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I guess President Wilson was so messed up that his wife ran the Executive branch for the last few years. It has happened. It seemed to have happened..
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Reagan would get lynched by the party today.
In 1984 he offered amnesty for people in the country illegally. [1]https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04... [npr.org]
In 2025 MAGA has a boner for masked man kidnapping people into unmarked rental vans and taken to a "camp".
Even Hitler's brown shirts didn't cover their faces like cowards.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04/128303672/a-reagan-legacy-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants
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Indeed. The Emperor's New Clothes seems oddly modern.
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Is it a drama, or just another check clearing?
The former "leader of the free world", the land of the "brave" and he home of the "free", the USA, becoming without opposition the Trumpistan, the brightest international beacon of corruption and incompetence in just 7 short months was extremely disappointing, if not entirely unexpected.