[ExI] Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

[John Clark]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> > *They just don’t get it. *
>

*Spike, you're being silly again. As I said just yesterday on September
13: *

*"As I said just a few days ago on September 8:  *
*"Your knee-jerk defense of Donald is fundamentally always the same; yes
what he proposes is both evil and stupid, but there is a piece of paper
that says he can't do stuff like that, and if that piece of paper says he
can't do stuff like that then he can't do stuff like that, so there's
absolutely positively no reason to worry that an evil imbecile is the
president of the most powerful nation in the world." "*

*> Presidents don’t make laws. *
>

*The US Constitution says only Congress can declare war, but the president
on his own initiative put this country at war. The US Constitution says
only Congress can inflict tariffs, but the US president on his own
initiative has inflicted ruinously destructive tariffs on us and done so
for reasons that are patently absurd. *

*But as I said before when it comes to AI I'm not complaining because
Donald is doing the right thing; yes he's doing the right thing for the
wrong reason but it's still the right thing.*



> *> The New York Times apparently thinks a POTUS is a king. *
>

*That's because Donald thinks he is a king, and unfortunately he's not far
wrong. *

*John K Clark *
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