Overview
- President Trump presented National Medals at a science summit to a group of leading executives, giving National Medals of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su and National Medals of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella.
- Before the public ceremony the White House returned to President Trump the physical medal associated with his late uncle John G. Trump, who received a National Medal of Science in 1983.
- White House aide Liz Huston issued an emailed statement thanking the recipients for contributions that the administration said help keep the United States at the forefront of innovation.
- The honorees represent priorities in U.S. technology policy, including commercial space systems, internet platforms, accelerator chips, semiconductors and enterprise cloud services.
- The ceremony publicly aligns the administration with major private tech firms and could affect future policy engagement, regulatory focus and collaboration between government and industry on advanced technology initiatives.