"The only control or "guardrails" that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI "people" from doing bad, or potentially bad, "things," like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a "perfect little angel" - and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!"
On Sunday, September 13, 2026, returning from a two-day trip to Ireland, Trump told reporters he would not downplay concerns about artificial intelligence, said there would be "more good than bad" from it, said the U.S. is leading China and that "whoever wins AI wins," and gave the line above about guardrails and negative forces. On Monday morning, September 14, he posted the statement above to Truth Social. That afternoon he posted again: "AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," compared the people warning about it to the people who warned about climate change, which he also called a hoax, called himself the "Hoax Buster," and wrote "Don't kill the Golden Goose!" Dario is Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic. The posts followed a week in which an Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned and wrote on X that OpenAI and Anthropic were "gambling with our lives" and that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," and a lead Anthropic researcher, Evan Hubinger, replied that Coxon was right: "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" Sam Altman of OpenAI published a call for slower development, naming two risks — an "unacceptable" loss of control, and a world "with too much concentration of power," writing that "if an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian" — and adding that "when we talk about 'pacing', we do not mean 'stopping'." The claim of criminal and regulatory power is not empty. Executive Order 14365, "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," signed December 11, 2025, directed the Attorney General in Section 3 to establish within 30 days an AI Litigation Task Force whose "sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws," on dormant Commerce Clause grounds, federal preemption, "or are otherwise unlawful in the Attorney General's judgment"; directed Commerce in Section 4 to publish within 90 days a list of "onerous" state laws for referral; directed the FTC chairman in Section 7 to issue a policy statement on when state laws requiring alterations to "the truthful outputs of AI models" are preempted by the FTC Act; and directed the preparation of preemptive federal legislation in Section 8. Then-Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the task force on January 9, 2026, telling employees its purpose was so AI companies could "be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation." The order preempts nothing by itself; its practical effect is to route selected cases into federal court. CNN reported that some White House officials privately say they are worried about the posture, and that it puts vulnerable Republicans in a difficult position sixty days from the midterms.
Ran the last word first. "Trump calls AI risks a hoax" was the headline on the wires, at ABC, at France 24, at the BBC and at CNN, and it is an accurate description of the afternoon post. The morning post is where the news was, and three things in it went almost entirely unexamined. He named a private American company and its chief executive on his own platform and said his administration "has stopped" them "from doing bad, or potentially bad, 'things'" — a claim that a completed enforcement action already exists, and nobody asked what it was. He then wrote the sentence that describes the instrument: "We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!" No outlet set that next to Executive Order 14365, which built the only AI enforcement apparatus this administration has, and which was built pointing the other way — its stated purpose is to shield AI companies from state regulation, and it is now cited as leverage over them. And the post closes with "Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!" in a week whose only AI news was two Anthropic researchers publishing safety warnings and one of them resigning to do it. Nobody asked whether they were the leakers.
This is the fourth time in this file that the president has named a specific private party on his own account and asserted a specific federal power over it. Entry #36: networks should lose their licenses for not airing him, and a month later ABC told a federal court it had already changed what it broadcasts. Entry #39: he sent one reporter to the FCC by name while the agency was in federal court defending itself against a retaliation claim, and the chairman said nothing. Entry #44: that same agency told a judge the chilling effect was self-inflicted. The pattern each time is that the press covers the insult and not the instrument, because the insult is quotable and the instrument is a docket number. What is new here is the word criminal, and the fact that the machinery already exists and was created for the benefit of the companies now being reminded who holds it. The Attorney General named in Section 3 of that order is the officer in entries #42, #47, #48, #49 and #55. Nothing in the posts is unlawful and no charge has been filed against anyone. The record simply now contains a president stating, in writing, that he holds criminal power over named companies whose executives publicly disagreed with him, and a press corps that filed it under the word hoax.