'ONE RULE': Trump says he'll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback

[highplainsdem]

Source: TechCrunch

President Donald Trump said on Monday he plans to ink an executive order this week that would limit states from enacting their own regulation of AI technology.

“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.”

“There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI,” Trump said. “We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS…AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY!”

Trump’s statement comes days after an effort to preempt states from regulating AI was quashed in the Senate, as Congress couldn’t agree to insert the deeply unpopular proposal into a must-pass defense budget bill.

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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/one-rule-trump-says-hell-sign-an-executive-order-blocking-state-ai-laws-despite-bipartisan-pushback/

[Hugin]

1. I will never accept that an Executive Order can block valid State laws and statutes.

Or even most State regulatory controls. That’s not nor ever was the intent of Executive Orders to have a reach outside of the Federal Executive Branch.

[highplainsdem]

2. No ethical judge would accept it, either. But we have a corrupt majority on the Supreme Court.

This EO will certainly be challenged in court, but SCOTUS ruling against Trump, even on something so obvious, isn't at all certain.

[Hugin]

3. Which would open up a cascade of edicts...

Like a national abortion ban and making marijuana illegal for starters.

But, in this case the shoe is on the other foot for the Trumpists. Good luck enforcing the edicts in all fifty states.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Under what authority does he get to make states obey his EO?

[orangecrush]

5. "One Rule"

Says the king of assholes

[Prairie Gates]

6. Overruling the 10th Amendment by Executive Order

John Roberts and the other strict constructionists will be A-OK with that, of course.

Fucking clowns.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Trump wants to be, to paraphrase J.R.R. Tolkien,...

the One Prick to Rule Them All.