George Butler

The tech bros, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Trump's own AI advisor, David Sachs, weighed in very, very heavy and said, no, no, no, there is no way.

If you do this, we are going to fall behind China, which is just one of Trump's buttons that you push on him.

And this is not going to come to fruition.

So it's kind of not going to appear.

Well, it does appear so.

I mean, there's always been this sort of power play, hasn't it?

Like, who's sort of really in charge?

They're all at the inauguration.

You know, they all traipsed across to Windsor when he met the king.

I think Trump, he wants to be seen as pro-AI, obviously, but he doesn't want to be reckless.

Like, he doesn't want a...

big cock up on his watch, a bioweapon, a cyber attack, something like that, especially if it's like American tech that does it.

I think he's worried about national security issues.

He's got a bunch of midterms coming up and voters are pretty nervous, I think, about AI, job losses.

safety, deep fakes, all this kind of rogue behaviour, ultimately he wants votes.

So he has to kind of try and appease voters a little bit.

We could end the year.

with two $1 trillion companies, both US companies.

Yeah.

Great news for him.