While President Donald Trump traveled to China with an entourage of billionaire businessmen including Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and cabinet members including his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, one of Rubio’s assistant secretaries, Caleb Orr, was in El Salvador meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Stacy Herbert, the American media executive who currently serves as the Director of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office.
[NOTE: Herbert is married to Max Keiser, former host of Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on the Russian state-controlled international news television network, RT. Keiser also works as a personal advisor to President Bukele on matters related to cryptocurrency.]
Sharing the photos below, Herbert wrote: “It was a pleasure meeting with U.S. Undersecretary Caleb Orr today to discuss El Salvador’s AI strategy. He and the delegation of U.S. economic agencies and venture capitalists accompanying him expressed great interest in our unique value proposition: El Salvador’s potential as the global testbed for AI deployment. We’re building the most pro-innovation environment for the future of compute and the world is noticing. Zero doom. Maximum build.”
It was a pleasure meeting with U.S. Undersecretary Caleb Orr today to discuss El Salvador’s AI strategy.
He and the delegation of U.S. economic agencies and venture capitalists accompanying him expressed great interest in our unique value proposition: El Salvador’s potential as… pic.twitter.com/1IApVdoEye
— Stacy Herbert
(@stacyherbert) May 12, 2026
[NOTE: Orr is Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs — he reports to Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, Jacob Helberg. Helberg is a former senior advisor to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who donated $2 million to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.]
Orr led a delegation to El Salvador that included the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), and investors from Harpoon, Heeney Capital, HNRV, Valor Capital Group, Vashon, and other U.S. venture capital firms.
Assistant Secretary Orr had the honor to meet with President @nayibbukele. As @SecRubio says, security is a precondition of prosperity. President Bukele has delivered law and order, and now he is making El Salvador a high-tech hub and one of the best investment climates in the… pic.twitter.com/Xt5CtGTUFx
— State Department Economic Affairs (@EconAtState) May 12, 2026
Herbert also celebrated her office’s recent accomplishments. As seen below, she reported on X: “El Salvador scored the world’s first sovereign delivery of Nvidia B300 chips,” and announced a “historic deal” with xAI, sharing photos of Musk and Bukele together.
The xAI Partnership Together, we are deploying the world’s first AI tutor across a public education system.
Legacy education is unambitious and, therefore, obsolete; El Salvador is leapfrogging it entirely. By partnering with xAI, we are ensuring every student becomes… pic.twitter.com/f0C3Qf2ePp
— Stacy Herbert
(@stacyherbert) December 14, 2025
