Most politicians would take a victory lap and move on.
President Trump looked at the Intel deal and said Washington left money on the table.
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In a wide-ranging interview with Fortune, Trump was blunt about the government’s equity stake in Intel, the chipmaker that received billions in federal support to keep advanced semiconductor manufacturing on American soil.
Fortune Editor-in-Chief @ajs spent an hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.
Tariffs. Intel. AI. Rate cuts. Boeing. Iran. And what happens to his dealmaking when his term ends? “I make one of those deals every day that no normal person would make.”
:… — FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) May 18, 2026
Fortune laid out the key Intel exchange this way:
Fortune’s CEO Daily account said President Trump described his equity-stake approach as something critics call un-American, while he framed it as a patriotic way to make American companies stronger and make taxpayers part of the upside.
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