But that is not what Trump is doing. Instead, he’s posting stuff like this:
It’s not just AI, either, where Trump is out of step with the country. He has also repeatedly backed data centers, which are increasingly unpopular in local, state, and national politics and in a similarly bipartisan fashion. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late last month. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign. The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them. If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.” The problem is that, once again, a lot of Americans want to kill, or at least cage, that Golden Goose—and Trump’s protestations don’t seem to be making much of a difference. A July poll from Politico found that support for data centers among Trump voters has fallen 11 points in just six months and now stands at a paltry 34 percent.
Trump’s choice to flout public opinion is perhaps not so difficult to understand. His tariffs and Iran war are straining the economy, and the stock market’s bull run in recent years has been largely driven by the so-called Magnificent 7 tech stocks that comprise about a third of the S&P 500’s total value—hence his vocal backing for AI and the data centers on which it relies. “Trump is married to data centers no matter what because it’s the only real job creator,” one former Trump administration official told Politico earlier this month.
It’s possible, of course, that those abilities have always been limited. And his knack for marketing and messaging may have always been overrated. For instance, Trump was never really that great at nicknames. For every “Little Marco” there were several like “Al Frankenstein” or “1 for 38 Kasich.” Shallow political analysts thrilled to these jibes—one labeled him the “Michael Jordan of nicknames” in a piece that gushed over “Little Rocket Man,” Trump’s moniker for the nuclear arsenal–possessing Kim Jong Un—but they were, more often than not, unimaginative and unworthy even of a schoolyard taunt.
The biggest surprise here is that Trump is willing to go out on such a limb on the issue. He certainly didn’t take any similar stand in his first term, one that was so at odds with the views of even his core supporters. That he’s doing so is a testament, certainly, to just how badly he has screwed up the economy, which is now perversely dependent on technologies that a clear majority of Americans are either skeptical of or outright loathe. But it also reveals that the president is, at 80 years old, more out of touch with his base than ever. Or put more simply, Trump is now plainly bad at politics.
The big winner here, obviously, is the Democrats. Trump’s unpopular stances are not just a political boost that could turn a blue wave into a tsunami; they also give cover to Democrats as they figure out where to stand on AI and data centers. The party has failed to articulate a clear position, as it’s seemingly torn between the potential for job creation, the party’s fraying but still present ties to Silicon Valley, and the public’s growing anger toward the tech giants. While some Democrats—mostly progressives and populists—have called for moratoriums on data center construction, the party’s leaders largely haven’t followed suit. Ordinarily that messaging incoherence would pose a political problem. But it isn’t, for now, thanks to the Hoax Buster in the White House.
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