Trump Teams Up With AI Moguls To Make America Algorithmically Confused Again
KEY POINTS
- •President Trump aligned closely with AI companies like Nvidia and tech billionaires to accelerate US AI dominance starting with a January executive order.
- •He downplayed AI risks while facilitating major contracts and shielding tech firms from tariffs, including global deals involving Saudi Arabia.
- •However, MAGA figure Steve Bannon criticized the alliance as crony capitalism, concerned AI threatens working-class jobs Trump’s base depends on.
In a plot twist straight out of Silicon Valley meets WWE, President Trump is gambling his entire presidency on AI—because nothing screams 'stable future' like unregulated algorithms running the economy. From his inauguration to lavish Saudi dinners, Trump cozies up with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who bragged on Joe Rogan that Trump 'saved the AI industry' by answering texts faster than a crypto broker on Red Bull. With landmark moves like the 'Genesis Mission' to solve century-level problems, and ignoring pesky national security concerns about selling AI chips to China, Trump’s AI cheerleading squad includes tech moguls partly shielded from tariffs and backed by Middle East deals. Meanwhile, MAGA OG Steve Bannon calls it 'crony capitalism,' warning that these 'broligarchs' will abandon Trump when AI replaces the very working class that put him in office. Kevin Hassett convinced Fox Business that AI productivity coaches will make blue-collar workers so rich they’ll skip entirely past middle class and into robot overlord territory. But with manufacturing jobs shedding faster than Trump's credibility, and Congress spurning attempts to curb state AI laws—though the leaked executive order might reappear like a bad TikTok trend—this AI gamble could either boost US dominance or burn the GOP harder than a Biden Twitter meltdown.
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Source: Axios | Published: 12/8/2025 | Author: Jim VandeHei