{"id":3492079,"date":"2026-10-08T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/president-trump-awards-big-tech-donors-with-nations-highest-science-prizes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:33:59","slug":"president-trump-awards-big-tech-donors-with-nations-highest-science-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/president-trump-awards-big-tech-donors-with-nations-highest-science-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation\u2019s highest science prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/president-trump-awards-big-tech-donors-with-nations-highest-science-prizes.webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, at the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD\u2019s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation\u2019s top science prize. Dell Technologies\u2019 Michael Dell and Microsoft\u2019s Satya Nadella also received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration, according to The New Republic. Alphabet and Microsoft, for example, donated to the president\u2019s inauguration fund and White House ballroom. AMD gave to a pro-Trump Super PAC, and Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to help fund the Trump Accounts, the administration\u2019s savings program for children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said the honorees had helped \u201cpioneer an incredible future for America,\u201d and that because of them, \u201cwe will always be on top. No one else can compete with us.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadella received his medal right after the administration indefinitely suspended Microsoft from the H-1B program, which lets U.S. companies hire skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/president-trump-awards-big-tech-donors-with-nations-highest-science-prizes.webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, at the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD\u2019s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation\u2019s top science prize. Dell Technologies\u2019 Michael Dell and Microsoft\u2019s Satya Nadella also received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration, according to The New Republic. Alphabet and Microsoft, for example, donated to the president\u2019s inauguration fund and White House ballroom. AMD gave to a pro-Trump Super PAC, and Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to help fund the Trump Accounts, the administration\u2019s savings program for children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said the honorees had helped \u201cpioneer an incredible future for America,\u201d and that because of them, \u201cwe will always be on top. No one else can compete with us.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadella received his medal right after the administration indefinitely suspended Microsoft from the H-1B program, which lets U.S. companies hire skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3492080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3492080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}