Trump’s Anti-Woke AI Executive Order Is a War on Truth and the American Mind
This Is How You Build a Dictatorship—One Algorithm at a Time
Executive Summary: Donald Trump’s new executive order doesn’t just target AI, it weaponizes it to rewrite truth and silence reality. By banning federal use of AI systems that reflect values like racial equity or gender identity, Trump is trying to program his worldview into the future of American knowledge, education, and decision-making. This article unpacks how this order threatens free expression, warps technology into a propaganda tool, and forces silence in place of truth. You’ll learn why this isn’t just tech policy, it’s an authoritarian move that affects every single one of us. [audio version]
This Isn’t About AI. It’s About Control.
Donald Trump signed an executive order on July 23 that injects his personal ideology straight into the foundation of artificial intelligence. This move locks his agenda into the systems that will shape how America thinks, speaks, learns, and operates. It is designed to control the story our machines tell, filter what information is allowed, and program an entire country to see the world through one man’s version of reality.
The order, titled “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” bans any AI tools that reflect values Trump has labeled as dangerous. That list includes concepts like racial equity, gender identity, unconscious bias, and systemic injustice.
In Trump’s world, these aren’t tools for awareness or justice. They’re targets for elimination. It’s about what Americans will be allowed to know. And so I needed to write about it.
Trump Wants to Redefine Truth Through Technology
Trump’s order bars the federal government from using any AI that contains what he calls partisan or ideological content. That includes critical race theory, intersectionality, or anything that acknowledges the realities of racism, sexism, or inequality in America. He claims this is about objectivity. That’s a lie.
Language is never neutral. Every word, every phrase, every dataset carries the fingerprints of the people who created it. That’s what makes language powerful. That’s what makes it real. AI is trained on language and human behavior. Which means AI reflects the world we live in, not the world Trump wants to pretend exists.
By banning so-called “woke” data and perspectives, Trump isn’t removing bias. He’s hardcoding his worldview into our future.
This Reaches Far Beyond Developers and Coders
This order is not only a directive and attack on engineers or academics, it’s an assault on everyone. Every teacher. Every student. Every journalist. Every lawyer. Every citizen. Every one of us who relies on information to make decisions, learn history, understand policy, or teach our kids.
Trump is telling every American company that if you want federal money, your AI must align with his view of America. That view erases marginalized voices. It denies systemic inequality. It attacks science, education, and lived experience. It replaces complexity with propaganda.
Lately, it’s become clear that in his world, it’s perfectly acceptable to associate with pedophiles. Seriously, this is the last person who should be pushing his version of “values” on the rest of us. But let me stay focused on the task at hand. His AI Executive Order is something far more dangerous, because it’s not just about who he stands beside, it’s about the future he’s trying to control.
That’s not neutrality. That’s indoctrination.
When AI Lies, Society Pays the Price
Let’s be clear. This executive order opens the door for machines to lie by design. It pressures developers to avoid uncomfortable truths in favor of safe, sanitized content. It encourages companies to rewrite history and flatten reality just to keep their contracts.
We are building the systems that will teach, guide, and inform future generations. If we program those systems to ignore injustice, to avoid race and gender, to deny historical harm, we are not protecting fairness. We are weaponizing ignorance.
That’s not a tech issue. That’s a national emergency.
Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the American Story
This isn’t new for Trump. He’s already gone after public broadcasting, school curricula, environmental protection, and social services. He labels anything that promotes inclusion or empathy as dangerous. He throws around the word “woke” like it’s some kind of virus, infecting American life.
The truth is, he’s afraid of the real story.
He’s afraid of what it means when people finally understand how deeply rooted racism, sexism, and inequality still are. He’s afraid of a future where more Americans know the full story, not just the version that flatters him. So now, he’s trying to cut that story off at the source.
He wants to silence it before it can be told.
This Affects Everyone
This is about all of us. Our culture. Our systems. Our justice. Our future. This isn’t just about what our kids will learn from a chatbot. It’s about what judges will use in their research. What doctors will rely on to train. What cities will turn to when planning policies. What voters will see when they search for answers.
Trump wants to make sure that every one of those tools echoes his voice. Not the truth. Not the data. Not lived human experience. Just his brand of political control, dressed up in tech language.
And once that gets baked into the infrastructure, it becomes incredibly hard to root out.
We Cannot Let This Stand
I’ve spent decades in courtrooms fighting for justice. I’ve watched how language shapes juries, sways arguments, and determines outcomes. I’ve seen firsthand how facts can be twisted and how silence can be deadly. I know what it means to speak truth when it matters.
And right now, it matters more than ever.
Because this is bigger than a single executive order. This is part of a long, dangerous campaign to suppress thought, erase truth, and remake society in the image of one man’s ego. It is coordinated. It is deliberate. And it is deeply un-American.
The Truth Doesn’t Need Trump’s Permission
The most dangerous thing about this order isn’t just the policy. It’s the silence that could follow if people decide to look the other way. That’s how this works. Quiet pressure. Gradual compliance. Normalized distortion.
We cannot let that happen.
Not in our courts. Not in our classrooms. Not in our code.
This is about preserving the soul of our society. It’s about defending reality against manipulation. It’s about refusing to surrender our future to a man who lies for power and punishes the truth for sport.
Now Is the Time to Speak Out
If you’re tired of being told that compassion is dangerous, that fairness is radical, that acknowledging injustice is somehow un-American, then speak. If you believe that AI should reflect our full, messy, painful, beautiful humanity, then push back. If you’re ready to protect what’s real from a system built to erase it, then stand up.
Because the only thing more dangerous than programming machines to lie is staying silent while it happens.
This is the line. Share it. Name it. Fight it.
Mitch Jackson, Esq. | links
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Final thought before this morning's deposition-- Nothing says moral authority like letting the guy who spent ten years buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein decide what our kids should learn, what AI should say, and what values America should live by.
I 100% agree. So what next? Not being flippant, but we can’t sit around and wait on events