Trump Says Only ‘Stupid’ Leaders Would Say No to AI

The signal here is political, not technological: a sitting president using social media to defend AI companies during a regulation-driven selloff reframes the debate from risk oversight to national competitiveness. That framing matters most for AI-adjacent equities and for regulators weighing stricter rules, since it raises the political cost of tightening. Whether rhetoric alone can steady sentiment after a selloff of this scale is the open question — a post is not a policy, and the market's reaction to actual regulatory decisions will be the real test.