POPA ReconQuestion: did Trump say the White House treats users of "artificial intelligence" (instead of "super intelligence") as "the enemy"?
Conclusion
Yes, as reported. On 2026-10-08 a statement attributed to Trump circulated saying the White House considers anyone who uses "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" to be "THE ENEMY!" The viral posts are not satire. They repeat a post that several accounts quote verbatim. I could not open the original Truth Social post, so the wording below comes from those quotes.
Wording
Several accounts quote the same text, for example kumarsubodh_ and Murr2: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP". NewsTongueX says it was posted on Truth Social on Thursday. The first wire items appeared around 16:15 UTC: BWEnews, trad_fin, then DeItaone at 16:17 and Cointelegraph. The line "OpenAI has 24 hours to change its name" in wallstreetbets is a joke, not part of the statement.
Context
This follows a push to rename AI in the US government:
NewsTongueX says a September executive order told federal agencies to use "SI" instead of "AI", and that the State Department told diplomats to follow after Trump's UN speech on Sept. 22. I found no second source for this.
On 2026-10-04 WatcherGuru reported Trump forming a "Super Intelligence Force" (SIF). On 2026-10-05 CoinMarketCap reported Jay Clayton named AI czar to lead a SIF task force.
Elon Musk wrote "Super Intelligence (fka AI)" on 2026-10-02. On 2026-10-04 WatcherGuru reported he would rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.
Mario Nawfal points out that the White House's own AI site is still AI.gov, its science office still says "artificial intelligence", and the order defines "Super Intelligence" with the existing legal definition of AI. He also notes there is a real technical distinction between the terms.
Reaction
Most replies mock it, for example BrittanyinTexas. Some accounts treat it as an official rename that tech leaders are adopting, such as WatchSalemNews.
Not established
The sources do not give a link to the original Truth Social post or any enforcement mechanism. "Enemy" reads as rhetoric, not a legal designation.