President Donald Trump is heading into the 2026 election year vowing to pull out all the stops to promote artificial intelligence — just as American voters are starting to voice some doubts.

A photo is circulating on social media that appears to show President Donald Trump using a walker, but it is AI-generated . The image was originally posted on X by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards, and has been viewed 6 million times early on Friday.

As the Trump administration tells it, artificial intelligence is on the verge of ushering in a new economic boom like that the US enjoyed in the 1990s, when real incomes climbed, the unemployment rate tumbled to the lowest in decades, stocks surged and fiscal deficits turned into surpluses.

Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, criticized a new executive order aimed at blocking states from creating their own artificial intelligence ( AI) regulations. Trump told reporters that “there’s only going to be one winner” as nations compete to dominate in the field of AI.

President Trump pushes back on a Wall Street Journal report saying China’s huge power grid gives it an AI edge, insisting new U.S. data centers will make their own energy.

White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump’s push to rein in state-level regulation of artificial intelligence over objections from Democrats, saying the move seeks to ease a growing compliance burden for companies.

The order creates an “AI Litigation Task Force” to challenge state laws and uses federal funds for broadband access as a bargaining chip.

President Donald Trump executive order on a national artificial intelligence framework threatens funding for states that pursue AI laws deemed "onerous."