First of all, the marketing for these new hyped-up projects based on pop science fiction (“Operation Warp Speed,” now “Stargate”) is patronizing as hell. But that’s the marketing world we inhabit, saturated with bumper-sticker slogans.
On a more substantive note, announcing Stargate AI very publicly as a public-private partnership from the Roosevelt Room in the White House after a flurry of otherwise pretty great executive orders was not a great move on Trump’s part — politically or policy-wise — for multiple reasons, a few of which I’ll touch on here.
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This stuff has been all over social media, but if you missed it or are sane enough not to use social media, here’s a quick primer of “Stargate Project”:
Via Newsweek (emphasis added):
Stargate is a new project designed to maintain the U.S. as the global leader in artificial intelligence. Backed by a $500 billion investment over four years, Stargate plans to build AI infrastructure across the U.S., creating thousands of new jobs and doubling down on American advantages in AI development.
With $100 billion already set for immediate deployment, the project will focus on re-industrializing the U.S. while enhancing national security and developing transformative AI technologies.
The project will be based in Texas, where the construction of 10 new data centers has already begun.
Stargate will prioritize AI advancements in industries such as healthcare, where the technology could revolutionize patient care through improved diagnostics, earlier disease detection and even potential cancer vaccinations.
First of all, a large portion of Trump's base voted for him out of utter disgust and frustration with the COVID scam over the past five years — overlooking, in light of all of his attractive qualities as a candidate, the fact that he instigated Operation Warp Speed and giving him a pass on the gracious assumption that he largely knew not what he did but rather listened to the “experts” to bring the mRNA shots to market (using public money for private profit).
At the very least, at some point, he stopped incessantly bragging about the alleged smashing success of Operation Warp Speed.
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Those who did vote for Trump despite Operation Warp Speed hoped he had learned some lessons from the debacle, or at least had surrounded himself with better advisors so as not to repeat the same all over again.
Then came, on Day Two of his new administration, Stargate Project alongside OpenAI (not open) founder Sam Altman (currently being sued by his sister for allegedly molesting her for years), a creepy Japanese dwarf billionaire who runs Softbank, and the visceral sleazeball that is Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
If this guy doesn’t make your skin crawl just looking at him, I don’t know what to tell you.
🚨Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at the White House, said that AI technology will soon be able to design personalized mRNA vaccines for every individual to combat cancer. pic.twitter.com/UU3iHjTB8c
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 21, 2025
The central pitch is that these people are going to cure cancer with AI-created, individualized “cancer vaccines” (mRNA shots) made within 48 hours of a cancer diagnosis. Which is a remarkable claim that ought to require remarkable evidence.
One is forced to wonder whether Stargate Project is the fruit of Bill Gates’ recent meeting with Trump — just him, Trump, Susie Wiles, and Gates’ assistant, to hear Bill tell it — which “impressed” Gates.
JUST IN: Bill Gates says he was very “impressed” by Trump during their three hour dinner together.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 17, 2025
Everyone is falling in line. Interesting.
Gates said he and the president elect had a very “intriguing” conversation about global health.
“[Trump was] energized and looking… pic.twitter.com/raKz31YHIO
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The megalomaniacal, autistic tech nerds that Trump is getting in bed with share no ideological convictions whatsoever with MAGA, or conservatism, or libertarianism, or any ideological bent that pushed him to victory.
Do you like privacy and freedom of speech? Larry Ellison hates it (for you), and he has the solution. Here is Larry giddily forecasting in September of last year that AI surveillance technology could be used to force citizens to “be on their best behavior.”
Oracle's Larry Ellison, who spoke at President Trump's announcement of Operation Stargate, states that “citizens will be on their best behavior” with their new A.I. surveillance system:
— Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations (@SovMichael) January 22, 2025
This is what we voted against when we voted for @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/WuaK56bdf1
OpenAI, for its part, just announced it is bankrolling Axios, which will spend the next four years demonizing Donald Trump and undermining his agenda at every turn.
Via Axios (emphasis added):
OpenAI will underwrite the expansion of Axios to four cities of its choice as part of a broader content-sharing and technology deal, the firms said Wednesday.
Why it matters: It's the first time OpenAI is funding newsrooms as a part of a publisher deal, although the idea isn't novel…
As part of the three-year deal, OpenAI will fund Axios' expansion into Pittsburgh; Kansas City, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama, the companies said.
ChatGPT will use Axios journalism to answer user queries with attributed summaries, quotes and links to Axios stories. Axios can access OpenAI's technology to build its own AI products, processes, and systems.
Zoom out: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei believes AI will play a key role in helping the company scale its local footprint to 100 or more cities.
The technology won't be used to report stories, "but to help build a system for creation, distribution, and monetization of our journalism," he told employees in a memo co-authored by Axios chief operating officer Allison Murphy and editor-in-chief Aja Whitaker-Moore.
Also, Trump promised to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on public health. Why, as the incoming HHS Secretary, was RFK not at the little PR rollout of “Stargate Project”? This nonsense would seem to fall squarely in his domain, pitched as it was as a miracle cancer cure handcrafted with love by robots.
In all fairness, mRNA technology certainly has potential upsides — although the last mass-deployment didn’t work as out promised, as you might recall.
Still, it could be that, this time four years from now, AI mRNA cancer “vaccines” have cured the world, your average American is living a happy and healthy lifestyle, and we are living in a nascent AI utopia thanks to the hard work of philanthropic billionaire tech oligarchs who pioneered Stargate Project.
Also, pigs could fly.
If either of those happens, I’ll acknowledge the error of my ways and beg for forgiveness for my black-pilled party-pooping.
Until then, this is a stupid marketing gimmick and Trump seriously undermines his credibility by indulging it.
