Noel King

And Trump's base was like, give the power back to the parents, something that the president, you know, in his campaigning said he was going to do.

What do we know about how this executive order is playing with ordinary people?

I don't think it's coming across very well.

Discussions are really early right now.

I think you'll start seeing it erupt more in the midterms.

But in red states, you're gonna start seeing churches, religious groups,

Concerned parent groups come out really strongly against this type of legislation.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the ways that she broke with Trump early on was because Congress was trying to pass the moratorium, the full-on ban on state laws, and went, When I voted for the one big beautiful bill, I didn't know about this clause.

And when it comes to AI and regulation, when we get to vote on this bill again, I will be voting no because of this clause.

I do want to point out that during the last election when you mentioned that a lot of voters wanted Trump to come in and

stop teachers and hospitals and medical professionals from dictating what they could and could not do, indoctrinating their kids in quote-unquote woke, whatever like that.

I don't think they realized that artificial intelligence was on the horizon.

And I don't think they realized that Trump would immediately flip to the billionaire position on this.

Honestly, I think everyone thought, including myself, that Trump was going to be much harsher on these big tech companies.

But like over the past administration, I think big tech has realized the best way to get Trump on their side is to literally bypass all of the MAGA-aligned regulators that are in the administration who instinctively hate them and go straight to Trump, who is more malleable and likes to talk to billionaires because he views them as his peers.

That was Tina Nguyen of The Verge.

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