White House · Nvidia · Google · SpaceX · Tesla · Donald Trump · CNBC Technology
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— CNBC's Eamon Javers contributed to this report.
Key facts
- Musk was Trump's biggest financial backer in the 2024 election cycle, contributing over $290 million, and then led an effort to slash the federal workforce as a special government employee
- WATCH: Trump Accounts have auto-enrolled more than 60 million children
- Musk, who leads SpaceX and Tesla, is receiving the National Medal of Science, as are Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su, according
- Brin attended Trump's inauguration and contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee in 2025
Summary
President Donald Trump is awarding medals to several leading tech executives, including Elon Musk and Michael Dell, at a science summit on Thursday, CNBC has confirmed. Musk, who leads SpaceX and Tesla, is receiving the National Medal of Science, as are Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su, according to the White House. "The Trump Administration is grateful for the contributions of these incredible leaders in science and technology," Liz Huston, White House assistant press secretary said, in an emailed statement. The summit comes a little over a week after Trump hosted a lunch at the White House focused on artificial intelligence that included several of those executives and many others in the industry. Each of the awards recipients at Thursday's summit has financially contributed, in some capacity, to President Trump or Republican campaigns and causes.