person
Donald Trump
US President (2017–2021, 2025–)
Rescinded the Biden AI Executive Order in January 2025 and signed replacement Executive Order 14179 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI'. Launched the Stargate compute investment project with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
US President. Rescinded Biden's AI EO in January 2025; executive policy on AI infrastructure (Stargate). Head-of-state operator.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Globally recognised head-of-state.
vintage
Post-ChatGPT
Entered the AI strategy debate in or after 2023. ChatGPT was already public when their voice became influential. Often shaped by Pause letter, AISIs, AI 2027.
Stargate 2025. Rescinded Biden EO. AI policy presence is post-ChatGPT.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Accelerationendorses
Build faster; delay costs more than capabilityExplicit acceleration framing: rescinded prior AI safety-oriented orders and launched large-scale compute investment.
Stargate is a new American company that will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure.
Closest strategy neighbours
by jaccard overlapOther people whose strategy tags overlap with Donald Trump's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.
Record last updated 2026-04-24.