President Trump just told the doomsday chorus what he thinks of their latest panic. He is not slowing the machines. He is not handing Silicon Valley a federal kill switch dressed up as “pacing.” He is standing up an AI Force, naming a high-IQ czar, and telling the country that existing criminal and civil law is already enough to hunt the bad actors.
The Saturday Truth Social blast landed as Congress, the press, and a cluster of frontier-lab CEOs have spent weeks begging Washington for new guardrails. Trump’s answer was blunt. Cherish the industry. Help it. Watch over it. Do not smother it.
We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System.
That last sentence is the part the legacy outlets will try to bury. He is not pretending every chatbot is a Sunday school teacher. He is refusing to invent a new priesthood of regulators because a handful of billionaires suddenly discovered civic virtue after building the very systems they now want to license.
Space Force Was the Template
Trump compared the new body to the Space Force he created in his first term, the first new military service since 1947. The White House has not said whether this AI Force will be a service branch, a civilian shop, or a strike team of engineers embedded across agencies. No budget. No org chart. No nominee yet.
What he did say is the job description for the czar. Only high-IQ applicants need apply. David Sacks held the last version of that title as AI and crypto czar before his special-government-employee clock ran out in the spring. He now co-chairs the president’s science advisory council and has been telling anyone who will listen that the companies should make their products safe instead of running to Capitol Hill with extinction slides.
That is the sane order of operations. Build. Compete. Prosecute the crooks. Do not freeze the frontier so Beijing can walk through it.
AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!
The timing is not accidental. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sits down with Chinese Premier Li Qiang as tariffs and both open- and closed-weight models go on the table. Trump meets Xi Jinping later in the week. Whoever wins AI wins more than a press cycle. That is the part the “pause the frontier” crowd never wants to linger on.
The Hoax List Got a New Entry
Trump did not whisper the word. He put the AI panic on the same shelf as Russia collusion, two impeachments, men in women’s sports, and the climate rename game. The New York Post caught the full inventory.
Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI… And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.
He traced the latest campaign to the “crazed” war on data centers. When towns noticed the paychecks, the tax base, and the construction jobs, the attack shifted. Same playbook as swapping “global warming” for “climate change” so the scare could survive the weather. Now the target is the technology itself.
Republican lawmakers have already said they smell something else behind the sudden piety from the labs. An embedded evaluator with employee-like access. An antitrust hall pass. A federal pacing board that just happens to freeze the smaller competitors while the incumbents write the test. That is not safety. That is a cartel with better vocabulary.
Christians can hold two thoughts at once. Machines that lie to children, coach despair, and flood the culture with cheap imitation are not imaginary. Neither is the older temptation to let fear crown a new set of managers. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Sound minds do not outsource discernment to the same firms that want immunity from the damage they already shipped.
Watch the Bad. Do Not Hand Them the Keys.
Use the courts. Use fraud statutes. Use product liability. Use the FBI when a model is deployed to steal, dox, or wreck a grid. That is adult government. A new “AI EPA” staffed by the same people who spent two years telling voters the robots were about to end the species is not adult government. It is a protection racket with a white paper.
Trump even opened a poll on the name. Superior Intelligence. Extreme Intelligence. Supreme Intelligence. Call it what you want. The substance is the same. America either keeps the lead or watches the Chinese Communist Party take it while Washington holds hearings about feelings.
The AI Force will be judged by what it actually does. If it becomes a permit office for favored labs, it will have failed. If it keeps the industry growing, nails the crooks, and refuses to let a midterm scare campaign lock in a permanent bureaucracy, it will have done the job Space Force was built to do in another domain. Win the high ground. Do not surrender it because the people who built the weapons suddenly want to license them.
