"You know, Taiwan, they stole our chip business... and they want protection," Trump said during the appearance. The podcast was published on Saturday evening.

Every hyperscaler, like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, working on their own in-house chip is fabbing with the Taiwanese company. UBS analysts estimate over 90 percent of the world's advanced chips are manufactured by TSMC. Intel and Samsung are among the companies trying to compete but have faced a series of setbacks.