Trump: We Will Not "Surrender To Fears" About AI
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/09/29/trump_we_will_not_surrender_to_fears_about_ai.html

President Donald Trump delivers remarks from the Mellon Auditorium as he announces a new AI initiative outlining his administration's vision for artificial intelligence, innovation and America's technological future.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We do not accept mediocrity or stagnation, especially in government, because Americans believe in excellence and constant improvement. We have to constantly improve.

If we don't improve, then everyone is going to catch us, because they're going to improve. We do not surrender to fears about what technologies will do to us. We decide that those technologies will do for us some very, very incredible things, especially in the field of medical.

Some of the things that are coming out medically, people thought would never happen, and now they're happening in a matter of weeks. Things are happening in the medical world that are incredible, all for the good. We never retreat from a frontier.

We never shrink from a challenge. We push forward and build a world that is bigger, better, faster, and smarter than it has ever been before. So today, just as our founders did two and a half centuries ago, we carry our flag across the next horizon, and we proudly declare that we are Americans and the future belongs to us. So I just want to thank you. God bless you all. And I will now sign the executive order. Thank you very much, everybody.