US President Donald Trump had urged Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang to fight to retain his job during a phone call on Tuesday, shortly before the company’s boss stepped down amid his link to China spy scandal, the NYT reported.The call was the latest instance of Trump defending Huang, who had emerged as a prominent ally and influential adviser on artificial intelligence. The US president continued to back the Nvidia’s Huang even after US intelligence agencies concluded that he was having an affair with a woman Alice Huang believed to be a Chinese spy, the report said.Nvidia announced on Thursday that Huang, who built the company into the world’s leading supplier of advanced AI chips, had been replaced as chief executive following revelations of an alleged affair with the woman suspected of spying for China and another relationship with an employee.Trump had been warned at least twice about Huang’s relationship with a Chinese citizen known as Alice Huang, whom intelligence agencies concluded had been recruited by China’s ministry of state security.The first warning came late last year, followed by another in the spring.Trump took no action on either occasion and brought Huang along on a trip to China in May, when the MAGA boss was accorded a grand welcome by Chinese counterpart and host Xi Jinping.In recent days, he has publicly praised the Nvidia founder and expressed sympathy for him, describing him as a “legend” in a social media post on Thursday.Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, Trump said Huang had called him and expressed remorse over the impact of the scandal that led to his resignation as Nvidia chief executive on his family.Trump praised Huang during a White House interview with broadcaster Stephen A. Smith on Thursday, just hours after his ouster amid reports of three affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China.