# America Should Not Give Up Its Trillion-Dollar AI Lead by Donald Trump > "We're about maybe a year and a half up on China. We're leading, and we're building tremendous, trillions of dollars' worth of places. And why should we give that up?" > **— Donald Trump**, *Presidents Cup remarks, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [Presidents Cup remarks, September 2026](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/28/anthropic-ceo-amodei-to-have-dinner-with-trump-at-white-house) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] - [[wiki/Data Center Investment|Data Center Investment]] - [[wiki/AI Superpower|AI Superpower]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "We're about maybe a year and a half up on China. We're leading, and we're building tremendous, trillions of dollars' worth of places. And why should we give that up?" — Donald Trump, Presidents Cup remarks, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-donald-trump-america-not-give-up-trillion-dollar-ai ```