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09/16/2026

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WASHINGTON—Lashing out at what he called “woke, far-left lunatic AI-haters,” on Tuesday Donald J. Trump told reporters that artificial intelligence “is much less likely to destroy humanity than I am.”

“In the last two years, I tore down the East Wing, turned the Reflecting Pool green, put the Kennedy Center out of business, blew up the Middle East, and put Pete Hegseth in charge of the military and RFK Jr. in charge of health,” he said. “Even on its worst day, AI would never do those things.”

Comparing AI’s potential for destruction with his own, he asked, “Isn’t artificial intelligence better than none at all?”

He accused critics of AI of being “sick and evil,” alleging, “They’re just trying to take attention away from the real threat to humanity: windmills.”

09/16/2026

09/16/2026

Meet the elite squad known as the “Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage” (OLAUG), a Cape Cod nonprofit made up of senior women who kayak, free-dive, and pull submerged trash out of freshwater ponds.

They’re really good at it, too: By their own estimation, OLAUG has removed roughly 6,000 pounds of waste since the group’s founding in 2017. There are requirements to join, of course:

Be a woman.
Be at least 64 years old.
Pass a swim test. (Tryouts are held in the spring, and members must be able to swim half a mile in under 30 minutes and free-dive to a minimum depth of 8 feet.)

09/16/2026

“I don’t think the president could spell AI if I gave him the first letter.” —Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)