# Post ts_117513761542349273

- Post ID: `ts_117513761542349273`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-27T16:14:59.315Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117513761542349273.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,640
- Reposts: 2,100
- Replies: 973
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-28T03:01:08.083Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-27T17:35:52.855Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Renaming a technology by decree

The post asks the Wall Street Journal to stop saying "Artificial Intelligence" and adopt "SI (Super Intelligence)", then announces that the administration will be "officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else." It continues a pattern from his second term in which renaming works as a show of executive power: the Gulf of America, the Department of War. This time the target is a common noun for a whole technology, and the press is told to follow along. No proper name of a place or agency is involved.

The objection is to one word. "Artificial" suggests fake or lesser. "Super" belongs to his everyday superlative vocabulary. The administration has made AI investment and data centers a signature economic story, so a name that sounds diminishing works against his favored product, and he swaps it for one that sounds like a promotion. The stated reason, "due to its inaccuracy," is a rationalization. He never says what is inaccurate about the term, and "superintelligence" in technical usage names a hypothetical future level of capability beyond human cognition. It is not a more precise label for current systems. The swap claims more than the old term did.

## The consensus claim

The persuasion device here is bandwagon. The WSJ is set apart from "virtually everyone else," which casts a paper he often attacks as the lone holdout. Then comes the hedge "or soon will be," which quietly withdraws the empirical claim in the same breath. That self-correction is the most revealing phrase in the post. He seems to know the claim isn't true yet, and he states it as if it were, betting that the mandate will make it true. It is a small reality distortion of a kind he uses often: a wish described as an existing consensus, backed by state power. The split between the WSJ and everyone else is mild, and nothing is said about the paper's motives, staff or legitimacy. A naming quarrel with a newspaper carries no danger signal.

## Affect and motive

The tone is closer to irritation than to grievance. "When will The Wall Street Journal start..." reads as an impatient rhetorical question. It carries no injury, no persecution theme and no counterattack, and the narcissistic state is grandiose, not vulnerable. The dominant motive is control over shared language: the right to name things. A ban on a word "in all relevant documents, and everything else" stretches executive authority across government paperwork and then past it, with no limit given. In archetypal terms this is the King naming his domain. In terms of order, he imposes a new linguistic order from above while casting the existing usage as the error.

## Language and authorship

The opening sentence is a question with no question mark. Its stacked appositives ("Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which...") pile up until "SI" reads like one more apposition. This kind of loose, cumulative syntax is common in his dictated posts and doesn't count as a cognitive marker. No word-finding trouble, paraphasia or confabulation shows.

At 12:15 PM Eastern (EDT still in force) the post falls in business hours, which by itself points toward staff. The internal evidence points the other way. The idiosyncratic fixation on a word, the capitalized "BANNING," the missing question mark, the mid-claim retreat "or soon will be," and the sign-off "Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP," a formula tied to his personal posts of 2025-26, all fit a post he dictated or typed himself. An aide drafting a policy announcement would likely name the instrument (an executive order, OMB guidance) and drop the unprovable consensus claim. Attribution confidence is moderate because a midday post with a fixed formula can also be typed by staff from his dictation.

## What the claims amount to

The factual premise, that "SI" is "the name which virtually everyone else is using," is false. Industry, academia, the press and the federal government, including this administration's own AI Action Plan and executive orders, use "AI." "Superintelligence" shows up in company and lab names (Safe Superintelligence Inc., Meta Superintelligence Labs) as an aspiration, not as a replacement term. The ban was an announced intention with no instrument behind it at the time of posting, so it can't be graded yet. A longer series would show whether he repeats this rebrand in later posts and whether any order follows, which would separate a passing fixation from a policy.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "SI (Super Intelligence) is the name which virtually everyone else is using for artificial intelligence" | **False** | Industry, academia, the press and the federal government, including the administration's own AI Action Plan and AI executive orders, use 'AI' or 'artificial intelligence' as the standard term. 'Superintelligence' refers to a hypothetical capability level beyond human cognition and appears in lab names such as Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Meta Superintelligence Labs as an aspiration, not as a replacement label for current systems. The post's own hedge 'or soon will be' concedes the usage is not yet general. |
| "In short order, we will be officially banning the term 'AI/Artificial Intelligence' in all relevant documents" | **Mostly True** | The first pass found no order behind this claim. One exists, and it predates the post. On September 29, 2026 the president signed Executive Order 14434, "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence." The text on whitehouse.gov makes it policy that agencies will "not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting," to the extent permitted by law. Section 2(a) tells executive departments and agencies, "to the maximum extent permitted by law," to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory executive-branch documents. The White House fact sheet describes the same thing: agencies are to "no longer acknowledge the terms 'Artificial Intelligence' or 'AI'." Agencies have started following it. Reuters, as cited by The Next Web, reported that on October 6 the Justice Department told staff to use the new term, including in court filings "when appropriate." Daily Sabah, carrying Reuters, quoted Treasury Under Secretary Erin Browne saying the US was pressing IMF shareholders and its G20 partners to adopt the term. So a ban in government documents is real and already in force, which is why this rates mostly true rather than unverifiable.

The post overstates it in three ways.

- It presents the ban as something still to come ("in short order, we will be"). Most of it was ordered four weeks earlier. No outlet reported a new order, memo or guidance on October 27. Reuters, Mediaite, Deadline and Daily Sabah all describe the post as a statement of intent. When Mediaite asked how it squares with the First Amendment, the White House press office answered only "refer to the TRUTH."
- "All relevant documents" goes further than the order. Section 2(b) exempts previously issued regulations, contracts, grants and other historical documents. Statutes still say "artificial intelligence," and the order borrows that statutory definition (15 U.S.C. 9401(3)), because only Congress can change it. The order asks the president's science adviser to propose legislative language within 60 days, which is November 28, 2026. That proposal is the most likely "next step," but as of the post date nothing had been submitted.
- The full sentence continues "and everything else." The order covers only federal agencies, sets no penalty, and creates no enforceable rights. The president has no evident legal power to ban the term in private use, the press or anywhere else. Coverage noted the unclear scope and the free-speech questions. The earlier October 8 post calling anyone who says "AI" "THE ENEMY" also named no consequence.

Verdict: the official ban on "AI" in federal executive-branch documents is real and already in effect through EO 14434. As a promise of something new and wider, the claim is overstated. Nothing new had been issued as of the post date, "all" documents ignores the order's exemptions and the statutes, and "everything else" has no legal footing. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Posted 12:15 PM Eastern, business hours (weighs toward staff)
- Opening rhetorical question lacks a question mark
- Overloaded appositive chain in first sentence
- Mid-claim self-correction 'or soon will be'
- ALL CAPS 'BANNING' for emphasis

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 45%
- Neuroticism: 35%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** sovereign namer who corrects the language for everyone
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** The Wall Street Journal as the lagging holdout

**Identity Claims:**
- The one who decides what things are officially called
- Aligned with what 'virtually everyone' thinks

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Possibly WSJ AI coverage; no specific provocation identifiable)

Sentiment: -0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Bandwagon framing that invites followers to see themselves among 'everyone else'
- Personal sign-off formula addressing readers directly

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-27._

> SI (Super Intelligence) is the name which virtually everyone else is using for artificial intelligence

**FALSE**

Industry, academia, the press and the federal government, including the administration's own AI Action Plan and AI executive orders, use 'AI' or 'artificial intelligence' as the standard term. 'Superintelligence' refers to a hypothetical capability level beyond human cognition and appears in lab names such as Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Meta Superintelligence Labs as an aspiration, not as a replacement label for current systems. The post's own hedge 'or soon will be' concedes the usage is not yet general.

Sources: General knowledge of AI industry and government terminology; White House AI Action Plan (July 2025)

> In short order, we will be officially banning the term 'AI/Artificial Intelligence' in all relevant documents

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The first pass found no order behind this claim. One exists, and it predates the post. On September 29, 2026 the president signed Executive Order 14434, "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence." The text on whitehouse.gov makes it policy that agencies will "not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting," to the extent permitted by law. Section 2(a) tells executive departments and agencies, "to the maximum extent permitted by law," to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory executive-branch documents. The White House fact sheet describes the same thing: agencies are to "no longer acknowledge the terms 'Artificial Intelligence' or 'AI'." Agencies have started following it. Reuters, as cited by The Next Web, reported that on October 6 the Justice Department told staff to use the new term, including in court filings "when appropriate." Daily Sabah, carrying Reuters, quoted Treasury Under Secretary Erin Browne saying the US was pressing IMF shareholders and its G20 partners to adopt the term. So a ban in government documents is real and already in force, which is why this rates mostly true rather than unverifiable.

The post overstates it in three ways.

- It presents the ban as something still to come ("in short order, we will be"). Most of it was ordered four weeks earlier. No outlet reported a new order, memo or guidance on October 27. Reuters, Mediaite, Deadline and Daily Sabah all describe the post as a statement of intent. When Mediaite asked how it squares with the First Amendment, the White House press office answered only "refer to the TRUTH."
- "All relevant documents" goes further than the order. Section 2(b) exempts previously issued regulations, contracts, grants and other historical documents. Statutes still say "artificial intelligence," and the order borrows that statutory definition (15 U.S.C. 9401(3)), because only Congress can change it. The order asks the president's science adviser to propose legislative language within 60 days, which is November 28, 2026. That proposal is the most likely "next step," but as of the post date nothing had been submitted.
- The full sentence continues "and everything else." The order covers only federal agencies, sets no penalty, and creates no enforceable rights. The president has no evident legal power to ban the term in private use, the press or anywhere else. Coverage noted the unclear scope and the free-speech questions. The earlier October 8 post calling anyone who says "AI" "THE ENEMY" also named no consequence.

Verdict: the official ban on "AI" in federal executive-branch documents is real and already in effect through EO 14434. As a promise of something new and wider, the claim is overstated. Nothing new had been issued as of the post date, "all" documents ignores the order's exemptions and the statutes, and "everything else" has no legal footing.

Sources: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/; https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/; https://iapp.org/news/a/ai-by-any-other-name-white-house-directs-federal-agencies-to-enter-the-era-of-super-intelligence; https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-artificial-intelligence-enemy-super-intelligence; https://www.dailysabah.com/business/tech/trump-plans-to-ban-term-artificial-intelligence; https://1027wbow.com/2026/10/27/trump-says-he-will-ban-term-artificial-intelligence/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-ban-term-artificial-162558297.html; https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-vows-to-officially-ban-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-all-relevant-documents-and-everything-else/; https://deadline.com/2026/10/trump-artificial-intelligence-ban-use-of-term-1237206260/; https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/trump-says-us-to-ban-artificial-intelligence-term-pushes-super-intelligence20261027223919/; https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-super-intelligence.html; https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/30/trump-signs-order-renaming-ai-to-super-intelligence--heres-what-it-says/; https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/10/08/trump-calls-anyone-who-says-ai-instead-of-super-intelligence-an-enemy/; https://cybernews.com/ai-news/trump-intelligence-enemy/; https://www.freshfields.com/en/our-thinking/blogs/a-fresh-take/trump-executive-order-mandates-shift-to-super-intelligence-102o403; https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-rebranding-ai-super-intelligence-tech-titans-ink-separate-accord; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/oct/27/trump-ban-use-terms-ai-artificial-intelligence-federal-materials/; https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2026/10/27/trump-says-he-will-ban-the-term-artificial-intelligence/92461406007/

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- renaming-as-power (85%)
- artificial-intelligence (90%)
- wall-street-journal (60%)
- false-consensus (70%)
- language-ban (70%)
- superlative-rebrand (50%)

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 27). When will The Wall Street Journal start calling... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial..." Truth Social, 27 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial...," Truth Social, October 27, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273.

## For agents

- Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt
- API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth)
- This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_117513761542349273
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_117513761542349273
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_117513761542349273
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-27
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117513761542349273.md?analysis=false

_Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._