Donald Trump

President of the United States

80years oldBaby BoomerBorn June, 1946

47th U.S. president who made AI dominance a signature policy — rescinding Biden’s AI safety order, championing the $500 billion Stargate data-center project, and unveiling a deregulatory AI Action Plan built to “win the AI race.”

Politician

Wikipedia America’s AI Action Plan

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+5.6proCampaigns for AI adoption
+1.0pro1 pro-AI statement (forceful)

Weights, statement counts, and the formula’s smoothing are already baked in — the points add up to the score: Firmly Pro-AI · 6.6/10

In his words

America is the country that started the AI race. And as President of the United States, I’m here today to declare that America is going to win it.

— Winning the AI Race summit, 2025

As our global competitors race to exploit these technologies, it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance.

— Executive Order 14177, 2025

Biography

Donald Trump (born 1946) is the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Whatever else divides opinion about his second term, its AI policy has been unambiguous: accelerate. Within days of his January 2025 inauguration he rescinded President Biden’s 2023 AI safety executive order, signed a replacement order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” and stood beside Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son, and Larry Ellison to announce Stargate — a private venture pledging up to $500 billion for AI data centers in the U.S.

Winning the race

On July 23, 2025, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” a 90-plus-point agenda pairing deregulation with fast-track permitting for data centers and chip-export diplomacy. Announcing it at a Washington summit hosted by the Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In podcast, Trump signed three executive orders — on AI infrastructure permitting, American AI exports, and “preventing woke AI” in federal procurement — and framed the race against China in the language of the space race.

Critics span both flanks: safety advocates say the administration dismantled the federal government’s only guardrails on frontier models, while civil-liberties groups object to ideological screening of models bought by the government. States pushed back on attempts to preempt their AI laws. Supporters counter that permitting reform and energy build-out address the actual bottlenecks to American AI leadership — and that the boom in investment since 2025 speaks for itself.