“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.”
— at the 'Winning the AI Race' summit, where he announced his AI Action Plan.
Source: CNN, July 2025 ↗
AI is eating America.
Case studies of communities fighting against being on the menu.
On the menu · Table: USA
Your job116,175 cuts
Your water5M gal/day
Your power bill+174%
Your kids6,700 img/hr
Your vote$115M+
Ordered by: Trump & Big TechCharged to: you
What AI is eating
19%
Jobs
Young workers in AI-exposed jobs are 19% below expected employment.
See the proof →12%Resources
Data centers will use up to 12% of U.S. electricity by 2028.
See the proof →174%Affordability
Data center demand drove a 174% jump in grid capacity costs across 13 states.
See the proof →6,700/hrNudification
Elon Musk's Grok churned out an estimated 6,700 sexualized images an hour.
See the proof →DOJPower
Trump ordered the Justice Department to go after state AI laws.
See the proof →ALPRFlock Tracker
License plate readers logging every car that drives past. Find the ones near you.
Open the map →How are our leaders responding?
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety. It will be won by building — from reliable power plants to the manufacturing facilities that can produce the chips of the future.”
— to world leaders at the AI Action Summit in Paris.
Source: TechCrunch, Feb 2025 ↗
“There will come a point where no job is needed… The AI will be able to do everything.”
— to the British prime minister at the AI Safety Summit.
Source: TIME, Nov 2023 ↗
“Uh —… there's so many questions implicit in this.”
— hesitating, on the record, when asked whether he would prefer the human race to endure.
Source: The New York Times, June 2025 ↗
“These data centers are incredibly power hungry… we got to build, baby, build.”
— on powering the data center buildout, at the AWS Summit in Washington.
Source: CIO Dive, June 2025 ↗
“We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.”
— in his 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto'.
Source: The Hill, Oct 2023 ↗
“The history of technology is things have always gotten better. I think it's very very likely to be way, way, way better for everybody.”
— waving off fears of an AI job apocalypse.
Source: Fortune, April 2026 ↗
“I think it's not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.”
— declaring human-level AI has effectively arrived.
Source: The Washington Post, Sept 2026 ↗
Weaker brain engagement with ChatGPT: people writing with it showed the weakest brain connectivity and struggled to quote their own essays.MIT Media Lab ↗59% of teens say classmates cheat with AI; 54% use chatbots for schoolwork, 10% for all or most of it.Pew Research Center ↗12th grade reading scores are the lowest ever reported.NAGB / Nation's Report Card ↗Trump's answer: an executive order pushing AI into K-12 classrooms with industry partners.EdSurge ↗
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