Trump calls anyone saying ‘artificial intelligence’ ‘the enemy’ as White House keeps using the term

President Donald Trump has a new litmus test for loyalty, and it involves vocabulary. In an October 8, 2026 post on Truth Social, he declared that anyone who calls the technology “Artificial Intelligence” instead of his preferred “Super Intelligence” is “THE ENEMY!” One small complication: according to Axios, the White House itself keeps using the term. From the UN podium to an executive order The effort first surfaced at the United Nations General Assembly. There, Trump argued that the phrase “Artificial Intelligence” misrepresents the technology. In his view, the label makes the intelligence sound fake and undersells what these systems can do. On September 30, he turned that argument into policy. Trump signed an executive order requiring every US executive branch agency to adopt “super intelligence” as the official label. A White House fact sheet released alongside the order laid out the reasoning. It said the new term better reflects how advanced the technology has become. It also framed the switch as a way to shed associations with fakeness, or with the idea that these tools merely automate human thinking. The order has clear limits. It binds federal agencies, but it places no ...