Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump's AI Guardrails Claim After Truth Social Post
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 15
Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump's AI Guardrails Claim After Truth Social Post
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 15
Summary
Jimmy Fallon used “The Tonight Show” to question Trump’s ability to manage A.I., joking he could not “beat Wordle” after the president cast himself as the technology’s safeguard.
Monday’s trigger was Trump’s Truth Social post dismissing calls for A.I. guardrails and saying the only control needed is a “STRONG AND SMART” president — “and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
Fallon sharpened the contrast by riffing that Trump would rename artificial intelligence “American Intelligence” and had only recently thought A.I. meant “American Idol.”
The exchange reflects a broader late-night pattern of turning Trump’s own social-media claims into punchlines, this time around his insistence that A.I. will be “more good than bad by a lot.”