The link I see from the few words GP used, one of the core underlying messages behind the "Make America Great Again" campaign was to bring back manufacturing within America.
Subsidizing and growing local production of computer chips would be quite similar, so I can see a parallel there.
GP really should have expounded on their view though, rather than leaving the burden to interpret their words on us, the readers.
EDIT: The derision you may feel might be because many shared the view that bringing back manufacturing was pointless and that bringing the capability back did not mean bringing back the jobs (automation). There was also the widespread conflation of Trump, his other policies, and the MAGA slogan... so the slogan is probably not as useful now.